Mobile development using Zend Framework and Zend Studio

[mrfroasty]

@arcticsoft

You probably program in the old school (not OOP).IDE comes with small amount of resources compared to a text editor only.But trust me its worth it!

One advantage of IDE is the links to classes while you are programming.In Text Editor, you need to remember all classes.Thats not possible in a large scale project e.g Magento or any ZF based application.

[MassEffectWebSite]

@kschrade76
Thanks for an outstanding video - although I have been using my own user-agent detector class for the same purpose, it is good to know that Zend FW has being having this feature since recently. That would help a lot to create not only mobile-device friendly web sites, but also SEO friendly one.

[kschrade]

@mrfroasty Thanks for the comment. You definitely can do that, but the point I'm making in the video is that it is so much more than simply code completion, or even having an Android emulator. It's looking at ALL of the tooling provided by an IDE ecosystem. Because Zend Studio is part of the Eclipse ecosystem there is a LOT more you can do than just simple coding. Mobile dev with an Android emu is just one of many really cool examples of this.

[staypuft]

@mrfroasty I agree. If there are tools to help productivity in development, they should be used. The "too heavy" or "too much ram" argument is silly when the benefits are a fully featured IDE.

[kschrade]

@rafaelfaria You would have to build the switching mechanism in to your rendering engine.

[banjoquint]

Nice, thanks. You made that look pretty easy!

[kschrade]

@mithras86 For a simple example like this how does changing the prefix make it easier? In the case where you have dynamically determined layouts that might make more sense. But this case is simple enough that it doesn't need the additional complexity of having a whole layout management layer. Simple switching is good enough.

Dittos for #2. My view scripts are actually quite simple with most of the complexity in the layout. Therefore I didn't need much in the view side.

[kschrade]

@bcarl314 You can't do what I did in here with simple CSS because what I did was completely change the data being sent. For example, the full page, with all of the content downloaded is 566k. The mobile site is 20k. Bandwidth is a big deal on the mobile platform and you cannot have those kinds of savings by simply using different CSS classes.

[MassEffectWebSite]

@bcarl314
Of course it isn't... It is "mobile development", there is huge difference between those two. I just hope you know that difference...

[MrAnixis]

hey thnx for that tutto but i really need to figer out how to get android sdk into zend thnx

[maxnag]

Скажешь, что в обычном блокноте никак таких вещей не сделать?