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Mobile Browser Reported Screen Sizes – Feb 2012

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by on March 4, 2012 at 10:59 pm

This is the second post in a series. If you missed the first post, you can read it here.

More information about Android screen sizes was gathered this last month, and is analyzed below.

Android phones
320 px width – 85% of devices queried – phone
360 px width – 4.5% of devices queried – phone
400 px width – 5% of devices queried – 5.3″ screen size
600 px width – 1% of devices queried – tablets
800 px width – 4.5% of devices queried – tablets

The screen sizes are becoming more varied with new devices with new screen sizes and resolutions becoming available, making it ever more challenging for the Android developer.

How is this information useful to you in developing apps?

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Mobile Browser Reported Screen Sizes – Jan 2012

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by on January 24, 2012 at 10:46 pm

UPDATE: this post is for Jan 2012, click here for the Feb 2012 report.

HTML5 / CSS3 development for mobile browsers needs to be aware of the reported screen size to effectively build a mobile site.

However, the screen resolution listed in the device specifications is NOT the same as what is reported by the mobile browser itself. Specifically, what is the window size information available via JavaScript using window.innerWidth and window.innerHeight. It is usually very different than the device’s screen resolution.
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WebSockets NOT supported in iOS 4.0

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by on April 26, 2010 at 1:58 am

UPDATE December 2010: iOS 4.2 now has websocket support

UPDATE July 2010: since the beta 2 release of iOS4, Apple has disabled websockets support. A few readers pointed this out, so I made a trip to an Apple Store it run a few tests.

Confirmed: iOS4 as it is released reports it does NOT have websocket support.

ORIGINAL POST:

Since the Safari web browser on the iPhone is based on WebKit, it makes sense that at some point support for WebSockets would make it to the iPhone.

Safari on iPhone OS 4.0 beta 2 supports WebSocket.

Once OS 4 is available for the iPad, support should be there as well.

Thanks to reader Arun for pointing this out.

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Test your web browser for WebSocket support

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by on December 9, 2009 at 6:34 pm

Google announced an improved way for a web application to communicate with a server. The new method is called WebSockets. You can read more info here on WebSockets.

Here is a quick test to see if your web browser supports WebSockets. At the time this post was published Google Chrome developer channel release 4.0.249.0 is the only browser to support WebSockets.


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