Osmobi question
hugafish - October 28, 2009 - 03:13
If I install the Osmobi module according to it's instructions, does the new theme that is required take over my existing theme? I want to be able to keep my site the way it is, but I would like to have it also be able to be accessed via mobile phones as well. Or does this theme that the instructions say to install only activate when accessed via phone at the Osmobi website. I am confused, I need this functionality but not at the loss of my current site configuration.
Thanks
Eric
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considering its a brand spanking new module, I'd consider asking in the issue queue of the module in question as it's likely not widely used at this point only being released a little while ago.
Ok
Ok, good idea, I'll take a better look into it, might be better to wait awhile even. I've been wanting something like this for some time now. Got a little anxious. I'm looking at the iDrupal module too, it looks like a good way to go maybe, but it looks more like for site management than for users. Just have to wait a bit and see what turns up.
Thanks, VeryMisunderstood.
Eric
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mobiletools.module has been around some too.
First
I probably should be looking into that one first then. More mature, might be the way to go. Thanks for the heads up on that module.
Eric
Osmobi and Mobile Tools
Hi all,
Thanks for giving feedback on the modules. I released yesterday the Osmobiclient module, the Osmobi Mobile theme and a new version of the Mobile Tools module.
I'll write a blogpost on http://www.mobiledrupal.com soon to show you how they relate to each other and how you can use them. But in short:
Osmobiclient + Osmobi-mobile
This module and theme needs to operate together with the http://www.osmobi.com service. Actually Osmobi.com gives you an interface to configure your mobile site: layout, styling, removing or adding content etc ... It also takes care of device detection, image rescaling and other optimalisations you can add with minimal work..
It works as follows:
- The Osmobiclient module detects if there is a mobile request
- It redirects the mobile user to a mobile url automatically created and configured by Osmobi.
- The url directs to our servers that will process your website to make a mobile optimized version
- at osmobi.com you can change and configure how the site looks like.
This solution is perfect for the creation of a mobile friendly site in matters of minutes. Just try it out and let me know what you think of this.
Concerning configurations: we only do a theme switch so you potentially loose your block configuration (we will work on that for the next version). Other configuration is shared between the mobile site and your desktop site. You will see that the mobile theme will be different then your original mobile theme, but we allow you to change complete style (and even extract the most used colors from your destkop theme)
This type of mobilizaiton is called 'hybrid transcoding': some things are transcoded automatically and other things can be configured.
(See http://osmobi.zendesk.com/forums/74140/entries/68489 and http://osmobi.zendesk.com/forums/74140/entries/68542 for more information)
Mobile Tools
Was the first mobile Drupal module I have created for Siruna to better integrate our mobile solutions with Drupal.
You can use Mobile Tools if you want to use other techniques then the Osmobi transcoding.
Other solutions can be:
- Custom theming of a mobile site
- Just making a seperate mobile site
- Using other transcoding solutions that are more configurabel (ex: http://composer.siruna.com)
Mobile Tools a lot of the preprocessing: device detection, theme swithcing (if needed), adding mobile permissions, integratio with panels, etc ...
Some of the code of Mobile Tools has been put in Osmobi.
I hope this info helps?
I'll keep an eye open for this thread... or you can always contact me (http://twitter.com/twom).
Tom