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This theme is compatible with Concrete 5.4.0, 5.5.x & 5.6.x.
[Take note that versions in between of 5.4.0 and 5.5.x are not supported.]
See this theme in action at: http://c5extras.com/theme/mobile-app/mobile-demo/
Use your existing skills to create a fully featured mobile web application.
This theme is more than just a mobile website template, it includes 10 mobile-optimised block templates and 1 BONUS mobile photo gallery block.
Mobile web applications are in high demand worldwide, so if you're a designer or developer and don't offer this service to your clients already, you now can! And best of all, it's a very lucrative market. Mobile web apps are usually charged at US$12k-$95k (depending on project scope). With this theme + Concrete5, you can build a professional web app in just minutes rather than hours or days.
Here are important benefits to consider:
- You can use your existing C5 skills to build it.
- Unlike native apps, you only build once and can deploy on multiple handsets (eg. iPhone, Android, Blackberry, etc)
- No need to wait for approval from Apple to publish mobile app - instant deployment.
- Central installation (unlike downloadable apps), so you update once and all users access the latest version
- Users can add a "bookmark" to the mobile device home screen. The icon can be customised along with a "loading" screen. When a web app is run.
- From the "bookmark" it opens in a full screen browser and looks just like a native app (no browser navigation buttons).
Here's a few key features of my theme:
- Works on all mobile devices including iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile. (Any device that uses a mobile web browser compatible with Webkit. For non-Webkit browsers, some page transitions may not work.)
- Custom block templates for popular blocks: form, guestbook, image, login, next/previous, pagelist, rss, search and Youtube. So these blocks look just like an iPhone app.
- BONUS mobile gallery block included which looks just like the iPhone "Photo" app, with swipe action to navigate between photos.
- If you are experienced in development with C5, you can create your own block templates for almost any other block.
- AJAX page loading supported (using a custom page attribute).
- You can easily add a "back" button (using a custom page attribute).
- Preload selected pages for super-fast loading times and transitions between pages (using a custom page attribute).
- You can easily hide the toolbar for a specific page (using a custom page attribute).
- Automatic display of animated message encouraging users to "bookmark" the web app (add to home screen).
- Preliminary support for iPad optimized interface. See a 2-pane layout on an iPad device and automatically see only 1 pane on an iPhone - no need to change your site content. See demo. Additional features will be built on this in upcoming releases.
There are a few limitations to be aware of though:
- Since the web app runs through the mobile browser security is inherently stricter compared to a native app.
- The web app can't take advantage of some hardware features (like camera, accelerometer, etc). The only hardware feature compatible with mobile browsers (and HTML5) is the GPS - which is useful for making a map-style app.
- Although mobile web browsers try to do everything that desktop web browsers do, they just can't.
- Hardware processing power on a mobile device is far less than a desktop, so be cautious with processor-intensive scripts (such as jQuery animations, slideshows, etc).
- Mobile apps tend to be more simple in structure compared to large websites, so use the "keep it simple" rule when building with this theme.
Important note: This theme is designed to be used as a PRIMARY theme on your site, not in tandem with another theme.
A special thanks to David Kaneda, Jonathan Stark and Thomas Yip. This is based the jqTouch jQuery library (BeeDesk's fork), but with several significant improvements and additions.
Do yourself a favour! You have to see this in action, if you haven't already, please watch the demonstration video.
Since this theme uses some different techniques than most other Concrete5 themes, I've created 2 additional videos the explain how to build a mobile web app with this theme: Part I, Part II.
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