Saturday, July 27, 2013

Good solution for evaluating your web applications on various mobile devices - Ripple Emulator

If you're looking for a quick and easy solution for being able to evaluate the look and feel of your web applications or SharePoint sites across various mobile devices, the Ripple Emulator add-on for Chrome (created by the folks at tinyHippos) is definitely a great tool to have in your toolbox.  Once you activate/enable the add-on against a targeted page of a site, it will allow you to quickly select a target device and instantly view the layout of your page as it would appear on that device.

For SharePoint 2013 device channels, one important note is that the user agent being posted by the emulator doesn't match the device (at least at the time of this writing); therefore, you'll want to specify the channel to use by appending the following line at the end of URL in your browser's address bar:

?DeviceChannel=DeviceUserAgent

An example would be as follows:

http://SPWebApplication/Sites/Site/default.aspx?DeviceChannel=iPhone

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