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Notes from “Mobile Device Detection”

Last night I put together a mini app / guide “Mobile Device Detection” hosted at notnotmobile.appspot.com running on Google App Engine. It detects the HTTP User-Agent browsing the page and decides whether it’s a mobile or desktop browser using a basic “Not Device” detection algorithm.

App Engine works great for little one off projects like this. Dropping in Disqus for comments also worked like a charm.

For promotion I tried dropping a link on Twitter, posting to Hacker News and dropping some comments on the top Google results for “Mobile Device Detection”.  The result? 310 absolute uniques.

Not too shabby for a night’s worth of hacking!

jb

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2 Responses to “Notes from “Mobile Device Detection””

  1. Mikko Ohtamaa Says:
    May 12th, 2009 at 11:25 pm

    Hey,

    I just came across your Bloom project in Google Code. We have been cooking something similar here far back Finland. Please check at least this project:

    http://code.google.com/p/mobilesniffer/

    It’s related to user agent stuff - I hope you could take a look on it and see whether we could join our genious billionaire playboy forces.

  2. Idel Says:
    May 25th, 2009 at 7:21 pm

    I have published the new version of Apache Mobile Filter, now the filter is give to you the information of capabilities as apache environment.
    Now you can develope in any language (php,jsp, ruby etc.) and have the information of mobile capability.

    Read more info here: http://www.idelfuschini.it/it/apache-mobile-filter-v2x.html

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