Jessie Beach presentation - Acquia

Tuesday, May 26, 2015 - 22:14

Jessie Beach, a  respected content management platform themer ande mobile developoper shared herthoughts and observations about

  • Dealing with several OS systems and Browsers.
  • Show diagram of OpenSignal Android Device Map
  • She says by 2016 there will be about 8 billion mobile devices – that’s more devices then people.

Her talk is about tooling.

  • Showed a diagram about Fidelity Spectrum
  • She says it’s nearly impossible to develop from the specification out.
  • She suggests using canIuse.com to see what devices can use what software features of technology (JavaScript, flash, etc)
  • She typically uses chrome and a text editor to develop, but says that Firefox has bitten her recently.
  • Use 10.0.2.2 – a trick called the loopback url.  Edit your hosts file
  • Talking about the Android SDK
  • She says you need to build a virtual machine for testing
  • You can get it downloaded – it’s about 4 gigs
  • You can use the loop ip trick to get your virtualized emulator to look at your local machine.
  • There is a similar method for iOS xcode emulator.
  • She recommends that you should prefer native implantations when polyfilliing.

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