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Christine Horvat
Christine Horvat

Reputation: 141

Which native mobile device capabilities can be accessed through a browser?

I'm creating a chart which lists native capabilities for iOS, Android and Windows phones, and whether these can be accessed through the phone's mobile browser. I'm looking at only the latest OS versions for each.

Can anyone confirm or give input into how accurate what I've found so far is? I'm especially unsure about Windows phones.

Device Capabitilies Chart

Upvotes: 3

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Answers (1)

Brian LeRoux
Brian LeRoux

Reputation: 96

Wow this is a really useful chart. Glad you thought of it!

iOS things I noticed

  • you can spawn the message app for sms using sms:// protocol handler on an anchor tag
  • ios browser has full multitouch!
  • 'fast graphics api' is vague...but ya canvas is slugglish. webgl is coming tho!
  • 'fluid animation' can be achieved with css transforms
  • ios supports input types date, datetime, month, time, range
  • push notifications are not doable but alerts are
  • 'interact with other apps' also doable w/ protocol handlers

Android

  • as w/ ios you can spawn the sms app w/ sms:// protocol
  • android system browser has multitouch; but its got a bug that only shows one touch. chrome has proper multitouch..
  • graphics and animation are doable as per ios
  • interact w/ apps also possible w/ protocol handlers (and intents)

Windows Phone

  • accurate but that will change this fall when windows phone 8 ships

And hey, what about BlackBerry!

Upvotes: 2

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