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I have a web application written in Django that has one specific page I'd like to implement a mobile version of the template (and slightly different logic) for. I'd like to be able to implement it ala this sudo code:
def(myView)
do some stuff
if user-is-on-a-mobile-device:
do some stuff
return (my mobile template)
else:
do some stuff
return (my normal template)
I don't have a huge amount of time and I'm pretty early on in my coding learning curve :) - I found what looks to be a very powerful pluggable app called bloom for getting mobile device capablities - http://code.google.com/p/django-bloom/wiki/BloomDevice However it seems to make a request via JSON to get lots of device specs I don't need, which seems a bit inefficient to me.
Does anyone have a suggest simpler method? My detection doesn't need to be 100%, just iPhone, iPod, android, and mainstream devices...
Does the http_user_agent string have some kind of mobile flag I can check for?
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Update:
I just found: http://code.google.com/p/minidetector/
Which seems to do exactly what I want, I'm going to test now. Feel free to tell me i'm wrong!
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best practice: use minidetector to add the extra info to the request, then use django's built in request context to pass it to your templates like so.
from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
from django.template import RequestContext
def my_view_on_mobile_and_desktop(request)
.....
render_to_response('regular_template.html',
{'my vars to template':vars},
context_instance=RequestContext(request))
then in your template you are able to introduce stuff like:
<html>
<head>
{% block head %}
<title>blah</title>
{% if request.mobile %}
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ MEDIA_URL }}/styles/base-mobile.css">
{% else %}
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ MEDIA_URL }}/styles/base-desktop.css">
{% endif %}
</head>
<body>
<div id="navigation">
{% include "_navigation.html" %}
</div>
{% if not request.mobile %}
<div id="sidebar">
<p> sidebar content not fit for mobile </p>
</div>
{% endif %>
<div id="content">
<article>
{% if not request.mobile %}
<aside>
<p> aside content </p>
</aside>
{% endif %}
<p> article content </p>
</aricle>
</div>
</body>
</html>
go for the fork of minidetecor called django-mobi, it includes documentation on how to use it.
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-mobi
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