Resources

The following are some resources to help you get started in developing mobile-friendly sites and tools. Not exactly exhaustive yet. Getting there…

Books

• Mobile Design & Development: Practical Concepts and Techniques for Creating Mobile Sites and Apps by Brian Fling
• Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript by Jonathan Stark
• Usability of Mobile Websites by Jakob Nielsen

Discussion Groups

• Mobile Web on Yahoo! Groups
• Mobile Group on University Web Developers

Browser Detection

• WURFL
• DeviceAtlas
• Simple PHP script
• MobileESP

Design Patterns

• eduStyle Mobile Gallery
• Mobile Awesomeness
• Mobile Web Showcase

Emulators

• Android
• Palm Pre
• Blackberry
• iPhone
• A Guide to Mobile Emulators from MobiForge (exhaustive listing)

Libraries

• jQuery
• jQTouch
• “Meet jQTouch” PeepCode screencast
• XUI-JS
• iUI

Mobile Frameworks

• Molly Project (Python)
• Mobile Web OSP

Mobile Web OSP

• Code
• Documentation

Presentations

• Beyond the iPhone: Delivering Mobile Content & Services by Dave Olsen
• Emerging Mobile Tech by Dave Olsen
• Usability and the Mobile Web by Rose Pruyne

Other

• Safari Dev Center
• Mobile Web Application Best Practices from the W3C