Tag Archives: mobile

Xusix Goes International

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With the massive amount of work we’ve done adding features and cross-compatability to our Xusix social network, we’ve also begun internationalization, including SMS support for over 200 wireless carriers around the world, and multilingual controls for the entire Xusix site, including multilingual notifications, messaging, registration, and user pages.

To further improve the usability across varying devices, we’ve adapted the site to display more similarly to an application on the device it’s accessed from, including adding Retina display support to the entire network for anyone browsing from an iPhone 4 or other new Webkit device that supports the new high-resolution graphics.

If you know a foreign language, and would like to help with translating Xusix, or simply testing Xusix under one of the languages you know, please leave a comment, and we’ll get in contact with you.

Local Fitness and Health

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Billings Montana has a new place to go for health and fitness information!  Inspired by the Let’s Move! Campaign by Michelle Obama, this new set of web sites helps you find up-to-date facts and resources for child obesity and general health at a local setting.  Find local events and activities that you can participate in as well as local fitness centers and stores to provide what you need to get and stay healthy.  Nutrition and exercise information is provided as well, and with the new Health Tracker system, you can keep track of your health easily online and on your mobile phone.  This new great web service is developed specifically for residents of Billings, Montana, but works great for people anywhere!

Let’s Move Billings developed by Alan Hardman, Michael Siebert, and Tucker Downs.

iPhone Web Apps

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If you’ve got a Mac, making iPhone apps is easy, but if not, you’re out of luck. Kind of. Thanks to the wonders of HTML5, you can create a full offline application using just web pages, and actually install it on any iPhone, iPod touch or iPad’s home screen just like any other app.

Rather than put together a lengthy tutorial, I though it would be better to build a basic sample application that makes use of all of the standard WebClip features on the iPhone.

This sample application is a single-page simple recreation of the iPhone settings app.  It demonstrates enabling WebClip app mode, settings the status bar mode, configuring an icon, enabling a custom start-up image, correcting screen scaling, imageless top bar gradients, and list views.

Apple has a nice guide on the iOS Developer Library to using the standard WebClip features.  HTML 5 Rocks has a good guide on Application Caching (offline mode).

Download the WebClip Demo App

View on your device at alanaktion.com/webclipdemo