Sometimes developers want to know whether the user is using a mobile browser or a desktop browser so that they can build corresponding user experience. Although in many cases responsive web design would help solve component alignment issues, there are performance related considerations in some cases where some code should not be ran or some feature should not be available if user is on mobile browser. or vice versa This post will summarize a few ways which are commonly used to check whether a user is on mobile device or not.navigator.userAgentThe straightforward approach is to parse the user a...

Today I come across a code snippet which uses JavaScript to check different mobile devices and then loads different CSS files accordingly. As we know that there are mobile devices with different screen sizes, it's always troublesome for web developers to develop cross browser and cross device compatible codes. Hope this one can help those who develop web apps on mobile devices.// Check whether it's a mobile device// wukong.name 20130716if(/AppleWebKit.*Mobile/i.test(navigator.userAgent) || (MIDP|SymbianOS|NOKIA|SAMSUNG|LG|NEC|TCL|Alcatel|BIRD|DBTEL|Dopod|PHILIPS|HAIER|LENOVO|MOT-|Nokia|SonyEri...

Smartphones have become one important part of our lives, the phone apps also play more and more important roles. They can help us live through the boring time or help us connect to our close friends fat away from us or help us get information,etc.There are also some interesting interaction methods since the birth of smartphones. We can play with them while we interact with the smartphones. Here we summarize some of them.1. ShakeSince WeChat introduces the Shake method to find people which you don't know before, this interaction method becomes very popular. Many apps provide functions based on ...

More and more companies allow employees to use smartphones and tablet PCs in workplace, but they are facing a new potential threat - malware embedded in games and applications.Dan Hoffman, network security company Juniper Networks mobile security director, said the application store is quickly becoming the main delivery mechanism of infected applications. Consumers purchase applications for their equipments through an online application store.As the consumers are free to download applications to their devices, so it's relatively easy for these devices to be infected. Hackers just simply need t...