Muthukumar Rajamani : Interaction Designer/Manager, Bangalore » Mobile Phone Apps

Android vs iPhone : Front End Dev

Muthu Online — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:12:38 +0000

On Android phones, to set the initial page zoom level and disable the user controlled zoom, add the following code.

meta name=”viewport” content=”width=device-width; initial-scale=1.3; minimum-scale=1.3; maximum-scale=1.3;”/. Ensure that the scale have a min value of 1.3

For iPhone, add this code
meta name=”viewport” content=”width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;”/

Welcome Email from Android

Muthu Online — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:44:18 +0000

Just received this nicely crafted email from the Android Team. I liked the way, the getting started video thumbnails were in-lined/embedded along with learn more and Android playlist on youTube.com links, within this email. Only issue was that, this Email came 2 days late.

Welcome to Android!

Your new Android-powered phone has many cool and useful features. Learn more by clicking on the links to watch brief YouTube videos directly on your phone.

Once the video has started playing, press your phone’s menu key, select “More,” and then select “Watch in high quality” to view the video in higher resolution:

* Customize your Home Screen. Learn more.
* Use shortcuts, widgets, and folders. Learn more.
* Run multiple applications at the same time. Learn more.
* Use long press to quickly access more features. Learn more.
* Experience the web on your browser. Learn more.
* Search the web and your phone with Quick Search Box. Learn more.
* Keep in touch with friends and family with Contacts. Learn more.
* Get cool applications and games on Android Market. Learn more.

You can find all these videos and more on the Android 2.0 playlist at youtube.com/androidtips.

Enjoy!
The Android Team at Google

Google, Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
We sent you this one-time welcome message because you recently purchased an Android-powered phone

Smartphone OS web requests in Oct 2009

Muthu Online — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:58:06 +0000

Sounds like at iPhone and Android will be the leading mobile web platforms going forward.

October Worldwide Smartphone OS web requests:

iPhone 50% (43% in April)

Symbian 25% (36% “)

Android 11% ( 3% “)

RIM 7% ( 9% “)

Windows Mobile 3% ( 5% “)

First Time Touch Screen Experience on Blackberry Storm

Muthu Online — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:27:04 +0000

I was under the impression that the Touch Screen of Blackberry Storm device wasn’t assembled properly and it “RATTLED”

Capture Screenshots of you BlackBerry Storm

Muthu Online — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:04:07 +0000

OTA Download CaptureIT

Mobile XHTML/CSS header code

Muthu Online — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:16:47 +0000

Add the following code in the header section, if you want to test your xhtml/css on a mobile phone browser

Buying Apple iPhone in Bangalore?

Muthu Online — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:31:24 +0000

If you want to buy an Apple iPhone in Bangalore, I strongly urge you buy directly from Airtel or Vodafone as iStore Bangalore on MG road wont service your iphone, replace parts etc., Their customer service sucks and they give a crappy bill which completely fades out in 3 months time(they wouldn’t issue a duplicate bill either)

my 3rd iPhone app using XCode & Interface Builder

Muthu Online — Mon, 25 May 2009 12:32:03 +0000

High Level Xcode patterns
The intent of this post is to document the high level steps involved in coding an Cocoa app, in a way that is easy for me to remember.

Application Behavior : On launch, load an URL (starting with http://) into a Web View. Clicking on Back and Forward buttons available on top should take users to the corresponding states/pages.

Interface Builder Objects:

Web View (UIWebView)

Go Back ( Round Rectangular Button)

Go Forward ( Round Rectangular Button)

MainView.h:
@interface MainView : UIView {
IBOutlet UIWebView *webView;
}
end

MainView.m:
@implementation MainView
-(void)awakeFromNib {

[webView loadRequest:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.muthuonline.com"]]];
}
@end

Steps to reproduce:

Xcode : File > New Project > View Based Application> “Project Name” ….

Open MainWindow.xib
Drag “UIView” from Library and drop and scale it to 100% of the screen
Go to Info Tab and set class as “MainView”
Drag and Drop Library Objects and set Attributes ( for images if reqd.)
Select BG > Main View Info Tab > Add Outlets >name and type
Add Actions>

Go to Connections Tab < Connect items on the window to the objects in the View

File > Write Classes > Main View > create .h file > Add to Project
Drag and Drop .m and .h file from Product folder to classes folder

add code to .h and .m and Build and GO

To Be Continued . .

Cisco Webex meetings on iPhone 3G

Muthu Online — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:21:09 +0000

Now, you can collaborate online better using Cisco WebEx application for iPhone 3G!

You can start/join WebEx meetings, share desk/mobile tops anytime anywhere.

iPhone UI

Muthu Online — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:48:00 +0000