Device Browser v0.0.1 pre-Alpha
Certain tedious tasks come up all the time that are unique to the mobile dev world. One of those things is digging for information about phone capabilities (screen dimensions, feature support, etc). There are plenty of sites that handle this in some capacity (my favorite is Phonescoop), but as with all sites that aren’t your own, sometimes they just take you 80% of the way there and leave you wishing you had just one more button in just the right place.
I needed something a little more efficient for quick, capability-based lookups, to I threw this tool together:
http://devices.theoreticlabs.com
This is my first Ruby on Rails project (running on mongrel, yeah!) so there’s bound to be some wackness, but it works for ma; actual mileage may vary. It’s built on top of the excellent-for-its-price open source handset capabilities database, WURFL. Enjoy!
March 20th, 2007 at 7:21 am
Nice site, nice approach.
May I suggest a few small improvements? It would be nice to be able to define search filters with > and mDevInf, if you don’t know it.
Feel free to contact me if you want more ideas.
March 20th, 2007 at 9:48 am
Thanks Andrea! I would definitely like to improve the query capabilities — it’s been a while since I looked at mDevInf, I’ll take a look again and steal some ideas.
I also had a couple ideas about turning this into more of a two-way interface where users can submit corrections for the data that I could roll up and send to you for WURFL data fixes. I’ll contact you directly about that one and see what you think.