{"id":125,"date":"2009-10-21T20:54:01","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T20:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/?p=125"},"modified":"2009-10-21T20:57:45","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T20:57:45","slug":"411-mobile-development-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/411-mobile-development-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"411: Mobile development testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re getting into this mobile dev thing, but how do you go about testing what you&#8217;ve built. Testing your code for desktop computers is a doddle by comparison. By testing a handful of decent web browsers, plus the annoying cockraoch-like IE6 (it just won&#8217;t die!) you&#8217;ve got it covered. But mobile is different.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_126\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mobileweb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-126\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-126\" title=\"the mobile web\" src=\"http:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mobileweb-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"the mobile web\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mobileweb-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mobileweb.jpg 508w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-126\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">the mobile web<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There are hundreds of mobile devices out there and just to make your life a nightmare there are many browsers and OS variations with a lack of adequate mobile web standards currently.\u00a0 So how do you check whether your site works across most if not all of them? The answer is probably to use a mobile emulator and there are 3 main kinds:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Device emulators<\/strong> &#8211; simulate actual devices and great for testing your site\/ app on specific devices<\/li>\n<li><strong>Browser emulators<\/strong> &#8211; good for establishing the functionality available in a particular mobile browser<\/li>\n<li><strong>Operating system emulators <\/strong>&#8211; Google provides for Android and Microsoft for Windows Mobile. Good for running a full mobile environment simulator<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Popular device emulators:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Apple (iPhone)<\/li>\n<li>Research in Motion (BlackBerry)<\/li>\n<li>Samsung<\/li>\n<li>LG<\/li>\n<li>Motorola<\/li>\n<li>Palm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Popular operating system emulators:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google (Android)<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft (Windows Mobile)<\/li>\n<li>Nokia (Series 40 and Series 60)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong> Popular browser emulators are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Opera Mini<\/li>\n<li>Openwave<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Advantages of emulators<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>You don&#8217;t need to bug your friends and family to use their mobiles<\/li>\n<li>You don&#8217;t need to take out multiple contracts or rack up data charges<\/li>\n<li>You can access and test across a larger number of devices<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s a relatively inexpensive way forward<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>There&#8217;s lots more to learn and some good places start if you intend to get into mobile site or application development are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong> <a title=\"Wikipedia on mobile development\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mobile_development\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mobile_development<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>MobiForge <\/strong><a title=\"MobiForge\" href=\"http:\/\/mobiforge.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/mobiforge.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Adobe Mobile Developer Center<\/strong> <a title=\"Adobe mobile developer center\" href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/devnet\/devices\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/devnet\/devices<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re getting into this mobile dev thing, but how do you go about testing what you&#8217;ve built. Testing your code for desktop computers is a doddle by comparison. By testing a handful of decent web browsers, plus the annoying cockraoch-like IE6 (it just won&#8217;t die!) you&#8217;ve got it covered. But mobile is different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,21],"tags":[34,67,27,33],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-29","category-mobile","tag-development","tag-mobile","tag-mobileweb","tag-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}