#mobile

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This proposal will support continued development of the VozMob Drupal distribution, which includes completing the Drupal 7 upgrade of various contributed modules.

VozMob - https://vozmob.net/ - "amplifies the voices of those excluded from the digital public sphere, by appropriating mobile phones for community-based journalism."

Guys, right now i have been design a mobile first display and countering the superfish menu with child is very annoying, is there any trick to overcome this ? I mean i want to make it simple (mobile display is must be simple right?)

thank you

Hi,

Any suggestions on where/who to ask for an OpenPublish mobile theme?

Notes:

You’ll hear the words “MVP” thrown around a lot in the update this week. It stands for “Minimum Viable Product”, and it’s a way for us to define what “success” means for each initiative. More to come on this later :)

Also, our next meeting isn’t until Dec 8th, so you won’t see an update over the Thanksgiving holidays because a bunch of us are enjoying turkey.

Configuration Management

Greg Dunlap (heyrocker)

Status Amber

Headlines

• Ongoing discussions coming out of BADCamp
• Working on defining the project

The first problem we need to solve is how users get around Drupal's interface on devices with small screens and touch screens. See the D8MUX road map.

Let's do some brainstorming and prototyping over how we get this good on mobile.

What do we need?

• Simple
• Consistent
• Finger friendly
• Complementary - The navigation can't upstage the main purpose of the page or task.

Current pain points

One page many purposes

As we found out in London, Drupal's mobile admin interface faces some big obstacles to overcome. If we want to to be able to tackle some of these problems in the next release cycle we need focus, the idea being we don't move on to the next item in till we have the previous one licked. I've whipped up proposal for our road map. This is by no means complete, there is plenty of detail to fill in.

I'm hoping we can work on it together.

Words to live by

Don't let the current interface hold us back

Configuration Management

Greg Dunlap (heyrocker)

Status: Green

Headlines

• Had a meeting with Gabor, Plach, and Jose about multilingual considerations in the configuration system. This discussion has been summarized at http://groups.drupal.org/node/185609.
• Had a code sprint at the Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit with beejeebus, msonnabaum, webchick and ksenzee. We worked on some implementations for the system and ksenzee wrote tons of awesome doc blocks!

ApolloMatrix LLC, based in Mclean Virginia, announces the release of their drupal-to-mobile event platform for the iPhone and Android operating systems. Apollomatrix's platform is uniqely powerful in that it leverages the open source drupal web development platform to build and populate native mobile applications. This system can take advantage of all of the features of native mobile development, while freeing back end users from proprietary or overly complicated content management.

A big part of any user experience is usability. It's the first step toward an engaging and seamless experience.

There are three key areas that will be the focus of the formal mobile usability tests:

1. Navigation
2. Readability
3. User Input

Currently Drupal's admin interface fails one and two almost instantly on small and touch screens. All three need a wide range of tests before we can confidently address these issues. I'd like it if people could weigh in based on previous experience.

I'll be posting more about the usability tests soon.