Free Tools to Test your Website on Mobile Devices | Designzzz

Free Tools to Test your Website on Mobile Devices

A list free tools for web developers to test and check their websites on mobile phones and other devices, such as iPad. Emulators and simulators, analysis tools and Firefox extensions. They will work as Adobe Device Central alternatives.

One Click PhoneGap Build to Android Device Script | DZone

One Click PhoneGap Build to Android Device Script

I've been fooling around with PhoneGap Build, and I really love it. I love that I don't need to fire up Eclipse or XCode to start fooling around with an app. All I need is a text editor and a browser. What I especially love is the ability to integrate a github repository to the whole process. It makes following proper development practice, while living in the cloud, very easy.
But I've been spoiled for the last year or so. Being able to immediately preview on a connected device has ruined me for the command line, multi-step, manual crap. So at least on Android I've fixed it for myself by building a nice shell script that takes advantage of PhoneGap Build's Web APIs to create a one-step build.

Juicy Bits | Daring Fireball

Juicy Bits

Fun story by Mike Swanson, on how he left his job as a developer evangelist at Microsoft to be a full-time iOS app developer.

Mobile Views with Grails | Graham's Blog

Mobile Views with Grails | Graham's Blog

With mobile browsers exploding in popularity, it is now vital for almost any website to accommodate them. If your website isn’t as usable on an iPhone as it is on a desktop, then you may be turning away a large percentage of potential customers.
Tools such as jQuery Mobile and iWebKit have made it easy enough to produce a site that looks great on any of the popular handsets, such as the iPhone, iPod Touch, Blackberry or Android based models. But most sites need to serve both mobile and regular desktop users. So the questions are:

• How to detect mobile users?
• How to ensure that mobile and non-mobile users each see content that is formatted clearly for their screen size?
• How to do all this without creating a separate site for each type of user?
• How to do all do all this using Grails’ DRY concepts?

If you’re developing your site with Grails, you’re in luck. Using the method I will describe below, you can easily create one site that looks great on both mobile and non-mobile browsers.

Mobile development with HTML5 | Engine Yard Ruby on Rails Blog

Mobile development with HTML5 | Engine Yard Ruby on Rails Blog

If you read blogs that are even slightly related to tech, you likely hear about HTML5 on a near-weekly basis. Although the new web standard does not do your laundry, it has features that enable the creation of powerful applications—using only HTML, CSS and JavaScript (a Rails back-end can bring additional firepower to the table). This post will go over some key concepts and features of HTML5, setting the stage for more advanced subjects.

From Windows to Android with Glassboard | Nick Bradbury

Nick Bradbury: From Windows to Android with Glassboard

I can tell you that switching to Android wasn't easy after almost two decades of Windows development. I had to learn a new language (Java), a new IDE (Eclipse), a new platform (Android) and a new programming mindset (mobile) in a very short time. Oh, and just to make it harder, I decided to do it all on a Mac. I guess you could say I was looking for a challenge :)
And a challenge it definitely was.

Adding jQuery Mobile to an Existing Grails App | Greg Stephens Blog

Adding jQuery Mobile to an Existing Grails App | Greg Stephens Blog

Tiggr, a Web-Based IDE for Building Mobile Apps | JAVA Developer's Journal

Tiggr, a Web-Based IDE for Building Mobile Apps | JAVA Developer's Journal

Tiggr is a Web-based IDE for building mobile Web and native apps. Today I’d like to give you 14 reasons why this new-of-a-kind IDE deserves your attention.

Creating Fast Buttons for Mobile Web Applications - Google Mobile Developer Products - Google Code

Creating Fast Buttons for Mobile Web Applications - Google Mobile Developer Products - Google Code

Here at Google, we’re constantly pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in a mobile web application. Technologies like HTML5 allow us to blur the distinction between web apps and native apps on mobile devices. As part of that effort we’ve developed a technique for creating buttons that are far more responsive than plain HTML buttons.