European SharePoint Conference: Mobile Applications for SharePoint using HTML5

Mobile Applicationsfor SharePoint using Christian Heindel, Communardo Software GmbH

@c_heindel

Agenda1. Introduction, market shares, pro & contra,

features, design principles2. Tools, tips and tricks3. SharePoint + HTML54. DEMO5. Questions

IntroductionThe challenge:•Large number of different target platforms•No clear market leader, not like with desktop OS•Endless list of manufacturers and devices

Platforms for mobile devices:•MeeGo (MobLin+Maemo) (Intel/Nokia), Android (Google), iOS (Apple), WebOS (HP), Windows Mobile, Windows Phone (Microsoft), BlackBerry OS (RIM), Symbian, Bada (Samsung), Qt, J2ME (Oracle), Brew (Quallcomm)

In addition, netbooks and tablets also run:•Windows, Linux, OS X, Chrome OS

Everything changes…iPad•It changed everything...

Chromebook•http://www.google.com/chromebook/

Windows 8 will run on ARM•Say hello to Windows 8 tablets…

HP webOS netbooks

Market sharesMarket share by OS from 2007 to 2011 according to Gartner Inc. (Worldwide Mobile Device Sales)

14,4 - 19,9% of all mobile devices sold in 2010 were smartphones.This was an 72% increase from 2009 to 2010.

Year Symbian Android RIM iOS Microsoft Other OSs Smartphones/Total Devices

11Q2 22,1% 43,4% 11,7% 18,2% 1,6% 2,9% 107.740.400428.661.200

2010 37,6% 22,7% 16,0% 15,7% 4,2% 3,8% 296.646.6001.596.802.400

2009 46,9% 3,9% 19,9% 14,4% 8,7% 6,1% 172.373.1001.211.239.600

2008 52,4% 0,5% 16,6% 8,2% 11,8% 10,5% 139.287.9001.222.252.900

2007 63,5% N/A 9,6% 2,7% 12% 12,1%

Fragmentation

PRO native applicationsMarketing•Presence in App Stores is good for visibility of your product.• This is important for consumer products, not so much for enterprise

products.

Performance, Look & Feel•Native applications run faster and integrate better.

Possibilities•Browsers do not get access to all functions, like phonebooks, camera and so on…

CONTRA native applicationsIncalculable business risks•Will the application be approved by the platform lord?•How long will it take?

Legal stuff•A lot of contracts and rules

A lot of work / costs•Try publishing to the following stores at the same time: App Store (Apple), Android Market (Google), Amazon Appstore for Android, BlackBerry App World (RIM), Ovi Store (Nokia), HP App Catalog (WebOS), Windows Marketplace for Mobile, Windows Phone Marketplace (Microsoft), Samsung apps

•Fees for app stores usually around 30% of revenue.•You need specialized developers for the different plattforms.•You need to rely on frameworks like PhoneGap, RhoMobile, AppCelerator•You will not be indexed by search engines.

Programming languages and browser support on mobile platforms

What some understand:•Objective C (iOS)•C#, XAML (Windows Phone)•Java (Android)•Qt (C++) (Symbian, Maemo)

What everybody understands:•HTML•JavaScript•CSS

Mobile platforms with A-grade browsers:•Apple iOS 3+•Android 2.1+•BlackBerry 6+•Windows Phone 7.5 ‚Mango‘

Those represent 95% of US internet traffic from mobile devices.

They supporting features like:•Geolocation API•Offline web applications•Web SQL database

HTML5 New features

Example: Geolocation API

HTML5 design principles

HTML5 - A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTMLhttp://www.w3.org/TR/html5/

HTML5 design principlesPlugin-Free Paradigm•Plugins cannot always be installed•Plugins can be disabled or blocked - see iPad + Flash ;-)•Plugins are a separate attack vector•Plugins are difficult to integrate with the rest of an HTML document (plugin boundaries, clipping, transparency)

Agenda1. Introduction, market shares, pro & contra,

features, design principles2. Tools, tips and tricks3. SharePoint + HTML54. DEMO5. Questions

HTML5 browser compatibilityhttp://www.caniuse.com/•Does my target platform support the function I want to use?•Which platform will I loose, if I want to use a certain feature?

HTML5 browser compatibilityhttp://www.html5test.com/•Don’t run this in Internet Explorer… ;-)

HTML5 framework for JSON / storage

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HTML5 framework for UI and data

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Jo - JavaScript framework for HTML5•It was originally designed to work on mobile platforms as a GUI and light data layer on top of PhoneGap.•Since its creation, Jo has also been tested successfully as a lightweight framework for mobile browsers, newer desktop browsers, and even Dashboard widgets.

Integrates Lawnchair via joLawn.•http://joapp.com/docs/index.html•From a deveoper who worked on YUI and now works on webOS… / Demo•Works perfect with PhoneGap!

HTML5 framework for the minimalistZepto.js is a minimalist JavaScript framework for mobile WebKit browsers, with a jQuery-compatible syntax.

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HTML5 basic frameworkXUIhttp://xuijs.com/A super micro tiny DOM library for authoring HTML5 mobile web applications.

Basics, DOM, Event, Fx, Style, XHR

Works perfect with PhoneGap!

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HTML5 framework helping you with the layoutLess Framework is a CSS grid system for designing adaptive web sites. It contains 4 layouts and 3 sets of typography presets, all based on a single grid.

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HTML5 framework if you don’t want to relearn

• http://jquerymobile.com/

• Dynamic touch interfaces that will adapt gracefully to a range of device form factors.

• The system includes both layouts (lists, detail panes, overlays) and a rich set of form controls and UI widgets (toggles, sliders, tabs).

• Based on jQuery core.

See also: http://jqtouch.com/• A jQuery plugin for mobile web development on the iPhone, Android, iPod Touch,

and other forward-thinking devices.

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HTML5 framework for applications• Sencha Touch – Mobile Web App Framework (from the creators of

ExtJS)

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PS: I like their comprehensivedocumentation on offline apps. ;-)They are explaining how you use this http://dev.w3.org/html5/offline-webapps/ the right way…

HTML5 framework for good & bad browsers

Modernizr adds classes to the <html> element which allow you to target specific browser functionality in your stylesheet. You don't actually need to write any Javascript to use it.

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HTML5 template for mobile usageMobile Boilerplate

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Additional links• HTML5 cheat sheet• http://diveintohtml5.org/peeks-pokes-and-pointers.html

• Get help selecting the right framwork with http://microjs.com/• Another template: http://html5reset.org • Canvas Cheat Sheet:• http://html5samples.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/HTML5_Canvas_Cheat_Sheet.png

• Massive collection of tutorials:• “The Ultimate HTML5 Tutorials and Useful Techniques”• http://www.dzinepress.com/2011/04/the-ultimate-html5-tutorials-and-useful-techniques/

• An oldie: http://www.html5rocks.com/• Smartphone Browser Landscape• http://www.alistapart.com/articles/smartphone-browser-landscape/• iOS specific improvements since iOS 4.2• http://www.mobilexweb.com/blog/safari-ios-accelerometer-websockets-html5

• Safari DOM Additions for iOS:• http://developer.apple.com/library/safari/navigation/#section=Libraries&topic=Safari%20DOM%20Additions%20for%20iOS

Agenda1. Introduction, market shares, pro & contra,

features, design principles2. Tools, tips and tricks3. SharePoint + HTML54. DEMO5. Questions

Principles for developing mobile applicationsMobile first development (yiibu-style, http://yiibu.com/) - They also have tips for Nokia browsers… ;-)

A practical approach:•Design the product.•Implement the product using web standards.•Launch the product.•Run into problems.•Translate product design into an iPhone* app.•Launch product on iTunes*.

* insert other platform here

Apps vs. the Web•http://www.alistapart.com/articles/apps-vs-the-web/

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HTML5 performance tips• Images slow things down immensely – get rid of them• Avoid text-shadow & box-shadow• Hardware-acceleration is quite new… and buggy• Use touch events whenever you can (ontouchmove >

onmousemove > onclick)• Avoid opacity• Hand-code JavaScript and CSS (frameworks are heavy, no

Prototype, no jQuery)• Use translate3d, not translate

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Creating native apps from HTML5• There are a variety of frameworks that will wrap your HTML5 code

and generate apps for different platforms.• They are usually slow, buggy and limited in functionality and

support.• In most cases, you better do real native programming.

• eBooks from HTML5• http://www.lakercompendium.com/

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Agenda1. Introduction, market shares, pro & contra,

features, design principles2. Tools, tips and tricks3. SharePoint + HTML 54. DEMO5. Questions

+It has built in support for mobile applications, but…

HTML5 + SharePoint: Limitations• The page won’t validate as proper HTML5 code. (SharePoint outputs

content as XHTML 1.0 natively.)• contenteditable not supported. (Editor)• Ribbon positioning will fail. (Workaround)• Out-of-the-box SharePoint master pages need to be adjusted. (v5.master)

Change document type to:• <!DOCTYPE HTML>Remove:• <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />

Mobility Redirect vs. ContentEditableIf you do not want to edit from mobile devices, you might just want to disable the mobility redirect.

Disable-SPFeature -Identity MobilityRedirect -Url http://yoursite

<!-MobilityRedirect Feature-><Feature ID="{f41cc668-37e5-4743-b4a8-74d1db3fd8a4}" Name="FeatureDefinition/f41cc668-37e5-4743-b4a8-74d1db3fd8a4" SourceVersion="1.0.0.0" />

iOS and SharePoint – Redirect?contenteditable not supported:a)Automatic switch to mobile version<system>\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\80\App_browsers\compat.browser<!-- iPad Safari Browser --> <!-- sample UA "Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148 Safari/6533.18.5" --> <browser id="iPadSafari" parentID="AppleSafari"> <identification> <userAgent match="iPad" /> <userAgent match="Mobile" /> </identification> <capabilities> <capability name="isMobileDevice" value="true" /> <capability name="canInitiateVoiceCall" value="true" /> <capability name="optimumPageWeight" value="1500" /> <capability name="requiresViewportMetaTag" value="true" /> <capability name="supportsTouchScreen" value="true" /> <capability name="telephoneNumberDetectionDisabled" value="true" /> </capabilities> </browser>

iOS and SharePoint – Redirect?contenteditable not supported:b) Manually switch to mobile versionhttp:// URL /m/http:// URL /_layouts/mobile/default.aspx

c) For short /m/ version, the MobilityRedirect feature has to be activated.

See also: Mobile development with SharePoint Foundationhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms464268.aspx and: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930147

iOS and SharePoint – Redirect? Want to see how a page is rendered for mobile? Add: ?mobile=1 to the URL…

iOS and SharePoint – Redirect?

iOS and SharePoint – Redirect?

DEMOhttp://m.christian-heindel.de

Contact information

Communardo Software GmbHKleiststraße 10 a01129 Dresdenhttp://www.communardo.deinfo@communardo.de

Phone: +49 (351) 83382-0

Thank you for listening! Questions?

Christian HeindelE-Mail: christian.heindel@communardo.deWeb: http://www.christian-heindel.de/Twitter: @c_heindel