Mobile Tools

Mobile Tools in in active development. We started a new 2.x branch that will hold the future developments for D6 and D7!

The Mobile Tools module provides Drupal developers with some tools to assist in making a site mobile.

This functionality of the module contains:

• Detection of the user agent: is the user accessing from a mobile device, or from a desktop device. Support for third party modules is possible. Currently following modules can take over device detection:
  • Browscap: based on Browser detection
  • Wurfl: based on Device detection
• Automatic redirection to the mobile site
• Automatic theme switching, based on device type (iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, ... )
• Integration with Panels through a Ctools plugin and for Node Displays.
  
• Notification for mobile users that a mobile site is available when they are looking at the desktop site
• Adding a mobile context to the permission system: this way you can use role based permission modules to define
  what a mobile user can / cannot do on your site, or what content he can see or not. Following modules can be used together with this module:
  • Content Access
  • Node Access
  • Node Privacy by Role
  • Menu per role
  • Frontpage
  • ...
• Change the number of nodes that will be displayed on the front page

Mobile Tools does not provide a mobile theme, but can be used together with mobile themes or content adaptation services.

Mobile Theme

You need a download or create a mobile theme in order to use the module. These are the recommended themes:

• Nokia Mobile Themes

User Agent switcher

It is recommended that you develop using the User Agent switcher extension of firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59

You can us this to use a user agent string of a mobile device (e.g. iPhone).

Contact me for questions or suggestions or follow the developments on twitter: @twom.
Vist my blog on http://www.mobiledrupal.com