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Has anyone tried using Dash to make a mobile app?
I found it very useful to browse the Dash page on my phone, but I don’t want to enter Urls and log in every time.
And if it’s a mobile app, whether embedded or native, there are more features that can be implemented.
From my experience with dash, its not a current feature unfortunately.
To clarify plotly and dash have two different types of interaction. The vanilla plotly graphing library allows you to hover, zoom, pan,..etc. Dash is more about complete interaction between multiple graphs.
Dash is a web app framework, so it can't be a native app as the interaction capabilities come from the web app functionality. People have built hybrid apps using dash but the requests still go through your own dedicated dash app, which is hosted through the web browser. So in my perspective you're just doing redundant work that is done by plotly. That being said dash code can be made mobile friendly so (in my humble opinion) that would be a better route. But from colleagues that have explored this route, the click, hover, select events that are what makes dash so appealing, do not work very well without the precision of a mouse cursor.
Last point, if the vanilla plotly interaction is the only degree of interaction needed then those graphs can be embedded into a native app because they are offline.
It could be done, though perhaps there not an out-of-the-box solution for that purpose. But Plotly Dash is built with ReactJS, of which the "mobile version" is React Native.
ReactJS vs React Nativeenter link description here.
Having said that, consider not using a mobile application that you have to actually download (i.e. an APK) but instead a web app suitable for mobile devices. Compare it to having the Twitter app installed vs opening Twitter.com on your device. It "feels almost the same", and you don't have to download anything.
I recommend reading about Progressive Web Apps.
Example of PWA.
I am relatively new to SO, and this is my first question so I hope I get the format & question information correct. I am looking for a plugin or tool that can assist me with a specific display issue.
I have a mobile application that is deployed to both Android and iOS devices. I also have a mobile web application that renders very much like the actual mobile application in the mobile device web browser when the user browses certain parts of the server back end cloud service website on their mobile device. So far so good.
However, when the user browses these parts of the cloud service website on a desktop/laptop, they get the web application view - some of it stretched and not ideally optimised as this is really for viewing on mobile devices. The client would like that a user, on desktop/laptop browser can see a mobile 'simulated' view of the web application.
It has to happen when the user navigates to the page, not through installing chrome plugins etc
I see the ideal solution being something like an image of a generic mobile for when browsing on desktop, centred on the desktop screen, inside of which the web app view is rendered. Is there is plugin/tool that someone out there for this, I have done quite a bit of research and can only find information on emulators for testing etc. In a way all I am looking for is an image that dynamically resizes inside of which a view can be rendered, that looks well across many desktop screen sizes/resolutions etc. Rather than go about this myself (it would be a bit of a CSS learning curve for me) it would be great if something like this already existed.
An implementation like the above would free up real estate on the screen for other items like links and form buttons the client wants
Any direction on this would be greatly appreciated.
I'm working on a simple mobile website for a hotel.they don't need much dynamic feature.most are simple HTML.So my question are as below.
I find it's hard to debug mobile website on Ubuntu.cause you know ,desktop browser are to big to show a mobile website.each time i need to put it on a server.then using a phone to test the mobile website.is't too annoy.is there a better way to do this?
On windows u have Dreamweaver to change the css style.but on Ubuntu can I find a tool like Dreamweaver?
is any any JavaScript code for animation for a mobile website.
Jquery mobile is a good js lib to create the basic element in webpages.but if I want to do some transition between pictures.how could I do that.
PS:if you want to use php to send a email to a email address how to do that?
In chrome you can emulate a mobile device, the viewport and user agent will adjust to desired device. In your developer tools you have something called Emulation where you can change your device.
Link!
To send a email with PHP, check the documentation:
Link to php docs
FWIW, I would reccomend you start with a resposive framework. There are plenty of great options, including Bootstrap , Foundation or Skeleton
From what you describe about your requirements, responsive is going to be a good fit for your client and you'll future-proof your design.
Then with a responsive design, you can test everything in a standard web browser by making the viewport or window wider or smaller.
Good luck!
Is there a way to use responsive design principles with Google Sites. Has anyone tried that. Could you direct me to a sample site. I looked at this google help topic but then that is supposedly about exclusively mobile sites.
My main focus is a normal website which is optimized for web rather than primarily a mobile site.
Alternatively would Blogger be a better option in this case as that allows to change CSS.
I think your negative impression is right. It doesn't implement the features you'd expect in responsive design.
The key to your question is that Google Sites don't use a viewport declaration (meta viewport in the head element). If you don't have that, then device browsers treat you as a legacy desktop-only website. They assume you'll break completely below ~830px, and set a page min-width accordingly. That doesn't sound much like responsive design to me.
Google Sites don't let you write your own CSS or HTML HEAD, so you can't implement a more responsive design yourself.
To be fair, you can choose to not set a fixed page width. Also navigations buttons will reflow on relatively narrow windows, if you're using the "horizontal navigation" feature. The latter isn't great design but at least it's degrading gracefully.
There is an option "Automatically adjust site to mobile phones" under Manage site -> General. However many people suggest it's better not to use it :). I tried enabling it on an old site, previewing the page, and selecting "preview in mobile". At least on Firefox on my original netbook (800px width), it was not responsive. It didn't expand to use the 800px screen properly.
As an aside, the line-wrapping (or absence of it) is a pre-existing issue with my site. You could blame this on me for not testing it :). However it illustrates a limitation of the WYSIWYG editor in Google Sites. It doesn't show, check for, or filter out the formatting that causes this problem.
Mobile yes, responsive no.
I was messing with Google Sites today and you can make a site mobile friendly (I had to come here to get started!). I just used the "Blank Template" to mess around with.
You do need to activate (like others that have mentioned):
Options (gear icon) > Manage site > (scroll down to Mobile) Check.. Automatically adjust for mobile phones. Yeah, let's bury that option way down at the bottom!
Considering the whole mobile "push" Google implemented in the spring of 2015 this should be ON by default for any newly created Google Site.
Just selecting that option makes an OK (basic) mobile site. Not a responsive site. So on my iPhone it does scale photos correctly to fit the device and switches the main horizontal menu to the "hamburger" icon/menu. But collapsing the desktop browser window does not produce responsive results.
https://sites.google.com/site/rwstws51/
As a test, I uploaded a way too large photo (2.5mb) to see what would happen. Running the site through Google PageSpeed Insights it did not display any "optimize photos" warning, so seems to serves up an optimized photo for phones and desktops.
I guess the basic theme is actually called "Ski." I tried out the "Legal Pad" theme and it was totally borked on mobile. I think due to the header and content area background images.
To me Google Sites is ideal if you are already heavy into Google's other products... drive, docs, Google+, webmastertools, analytics, etc... As it has links to add those types of items when editing. Or need a quick site for collaborating as you can easily set the site access like YouTube,Drive items.
Also, you are very limited as to what html you can added. Trying to add a script tag gets stripped out when attempting to save. So again depending on the use there are definitely other options out there.
The answer applying to old "Classic" google sites is NO.
If you create your own custom HTML forms with apps script, you can add the #media viewports etc to the css for those pages/forms,so that helps...
but the google site frame around overrides custom css attempting
responsive design at the page level.
now a days its possible to make a responsive Google Site. since Google has enhanced this feature "Automatically adjust site to mobile phones" option in the Manage Site option button.
to find the option- go to> Manage Site> General> , in the general settings page's lower portion you can see a radio button named "Automatically adjust site to mobile phones". Just tick the radio button & u have enhanced the feature.
Refer an example site made with responsive Google site www.jyotiprokashmusic.com
I have a fairly large dynamic website, whose user interface is written using XHTML, CSS and jQuery. The site does not display/work well on mobile devices. What is the best option: to develop a fluid site that displays well on both mobile and desktop, or to separately develop a mobile version of the site? Thank you for any suggestion.
Although a parallel site, with a desktop page and a mobile page is easier to build, it is harder to maintain (2 sets of content) and Google will see this as duplicate content - one of the sites won't rank in search engines.
A fluid solution, which displays the content well whatever the screen size (and if you use CSS & JavaScript wisely, it can look great on all sorts of screen sizes), is a much better solution, and you only have one URL for each page for your visitors to book mark.