He is a mobile+web developer, consultant, trainer and author of the books Programming the Mobile Web (2nd. edition), Up and Running: jQuery Mobile and the upcoming High Performance Mobile Web. He is a frequent speaker at international events, including Fluent, JSConf, TopConf, Velocity Conference talking about performance, mobile HTML5 and wearables. He has delivered more than 300 trainings in more than 30 countries, including online trainings for Mobile HTML5, Apache Cordova and other topics. He mantains the HTML5 Mobile Compatibility list and usually publish information on new capabilities on mobile browsers in his blog.
In this article, Maximiliano Firtman will review the platforms available today, what you can do on each of them, how to plan the architecture, and how to develop apps or companion services for these new devices.
Do you remember the shoe phone from Get Smart? The shoe phone you saw on TV was followed by many other wearable devices on TV. Many years later, we can say that wearable devices are here and ready to use. We, as designers and developers, need to be ready to develop successful experiences for them. Today, Maximiliano will cover the most important platforms ready to support our content and services, what we can do on them and where to start in terms of languages, SDKs and emulators.
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Responsive web design is great, but it’s not a silver bullet. In this article, Maximiliano Firtman will cover the relationship between the mobile web and responsive design, starting with how to apply responsive design intelligently, why responsive design should not be your website’s goal, and ending with the performance issues of the technique to help us understand the problem. According to Guy Podjarny’s research, 72% of responsive websites deliver the same number of bytes regardless of screen size, even on slow mobile network connections. Not all users will wait for your website to load. With just a basic understanding of the problem, you can minimize this loss.
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jQuery Mobile, an open-source multiplatform UI framework, was released to help designers and developers create mobile Web experiences that are easy to build, customizable and unobtrusive in code. While mobile browsers and platforms are creating new challenges for us, jQuery Mobile can help us succeed with our mobile apps.
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