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Saturday, April 4, 2009

A quick overview of Drupal in mobile application development

Drupal is also in the mobile Era. It offers many built in functionalities for customer who wants to show site on mobile devices. Usually mobile sites are based upon a domain; the visitor has to visit a different website from his mobile device. Often m.mysite.com instead of (www).mysite.com. There are many attempts in the Drupal support community to provide tools that help in making your site mobile.
I am trying to give an overview with the present state of Drupal modules targeting the mobile world!
I tried to do my best to not forget any module, feel free to add your comments, modules or your own experiences.
There are many modules in Drupal which helps in mobile app development.Like
Mobile , WURFL , WURFL PHP library, Siruna, Mobile Tools …
I categorized it based on functionalities:
Theme switching modules:
mobi_loader, Accessibility, Mobit, Mobile Theme, Mobile Devices
Redirection modules:
Mobile Device Detection module.
Mobile theming:
.mobi theme, iUI, bluemobi (with accessibility), Mobile
SMS modules:
SMS framework, SMPP
Mobile publishing:
Mobile Media Blog and dotgo
Mobile payments:
Mobillcash, Mobile Codes
Please feel free to find more information at

http://www.mobiledrupal.com

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