Notes from “Mobile Device Detection”
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009Last 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
