MOBILE WEBSITE FOR INTERACTIVE GAME CONCEPT
PLATFORMS
aim for Smartphones - big diff is the amount of Web traffic and usage on these phones, vs their
number of handsets in use.
"The iPhone is still providing a lot of excitement for UK consumers to the extent that one mobile
device in every ten used in the UK will be an iPhone at the end of 2012,"
- iOs (iPhone, iPod touch, iPad)
- Android - HTC Motorola Samsung etc more and more common
- Blackberry
DEVICE RESOLUTIONS - most important aspect in mobile web dev:
• Touch-enabled high-end devices and smartphones: 240×480, 320×480, 360×480, 480×800,
480×854, or 640×960 pixels
- also ppi is important - eg IPhone 4 has retina display:
“retina display,” 326 pixels per inch (ppi). -- this device with 960×640 in landscape mode has more
pixels per inch that the ones we can really see.
- need to avoid Horizontal scroll (vertical is OK) (unless we use the panoramic method - few
pixels of not "page" showing)
BROWSERS
- Android, Safari, new BlackBerry 6*, Palm webOS (all WebKit type) , Explorer, Opera, etc basically
it should be working in the recent versions of all these. Importance of testing.
--> a good example: older Blackberry devices cannot use this new full featured browser. Complex.
INTERFACE - touch / tablet / mobile phone etc - this varies across devices.
- drag to place X - pinch etc to zoom possibly.
- non-touch -- use joystick to move a cursor etc? point and click idea.
- hardly any text input (eg PINs not passwords etc)
MOBILE WEBSITE FOR INTERACTIVE GAME CONCEPT:
SUPPORTED PHONES (OPERATING SYSTEM & BROWSERS)
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gradings by Jquery Mobile project. www.jquerymobile.com/gbs/
We would support those browsers with A-grade support on the following platforms therefore:
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iOS v3.1.3 and higher; native browser
Android v2.1 and higher; native browser
Blackberry OS v6.0 and higher; native browser
We would also look to add Windows Mobile 7 platform with its native browser at some stage early next
year- but currently details are unclear on what the main browser will be able to support in interactive
terms. So this is subject to that happening.
These platforms are by far the most popular high-end smartphones in UK market:
iPhone at 20% market share as early as Jan 2010
Android at 13% in April 2010 and growing rapidly
Blackberry is less but has a large share of commuter market and can expect many Blackberry 6 users in
2011.
www.ismashphone.com/2010/08/iphone-vs-android-market-share-its-complicated.html