Question

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?

Answer 1

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!