Monday, November 12, 2007

The Web in Google's Mobile Browser

Android's SDK offers an emulator that, among other things, lets you use the browser. Google used WebKit, an application framework that also powers Safari and Nokia's S60 browser.

Android's browser does a good job at rendering complex web pages, but it doesn't have Flash support and it's really slow. You can zoom in, zoom out and move inside a web page. Here are some popular web sites rendered by an early version of Android's browser.

Useragent.org:


Gmail:


Google Maps:


NY Times:


Yahoo:


Digg:


YouTube video:


Adobe:


Acid2 Browser Test:


Apple's iPhone site:


iGoogle:



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The Web in Google's Mobile Browser by Alex Chitu
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Blogger Mark Dunne said on November 12, 2007 3:58 PM PDT:
Has no seen Opera Mini 4, it's a free app that allows alsolutely any mobile to surf the "Real" web. It's been around a long time now. It's great, worth a look, might tide you over until the release of the first Gphone...
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Blogger Dmitri said on November 12, 2007 11:14 PM PDT:
I would like to have the option to opt for mobile optimized version.

Hence faster Internet.

Sometimes you really just want to do something quick (re-read your email?) and you don't really a full interface for that.
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Blogger (``-_-ยดยด) -- BUGabundo said on November 13, 2007 1:34 AM PDT:
io, you show your email on the last screenshot!
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Blogger Ionut Alex Chitu said on November 13, 2007 1:56 AM PDT:
@Mark: Opera Mini is very good, but I don't like that you have only two levels of zoom. Also, Opera Mini is just an interface to Opera Mobile running on a server.

@Dmitri: You can see the mobilized version of a page here: http://google.com/gwt/n or by searching at Google Mobile. Note that this is a linear version, not the one from Android's browser.

@Bugabundo: There's a link to my email in the sidebar (I used JavaScript to receive less spam).
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Blogger cgull said on November 13, 2007 10:06 AM PDT:
I think Google should create a mobile version of these pages like the iPhone adjusted web pages, looks much better. Otherwise seeing a webpage by panning and moving up and down for every page will become tedious.
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Blogger sven said on November 13, 2007 2:30 PM PDT:
how can i run that emulator?
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Blogger Ionut Alex Chitu said on November 13, 2007 2:50 PM PDT:
Download the SDK, the plug-in for Eclipse and run one of the sample apps.
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Blogger bd_ said on November 13, 2007 9:41 PM PDT:
"Android's browser does a good job at rendering complex web pages, but it doesn't have Flash support and it's really slow."

Speed issues are likely to be caused by the use of an emulator (which will render anything several orders of magnitude slower than the real thing), so I wouldn't draw any conclusions until you see this running on real hardware, or unless the emulator measures time dialation (which it probably won't, getting the timing exactly right make it even slower)
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Blogger gokmen said on November 14, 2007 2:04 PM PDT:
emlak
I would like to have the option to opt for mobile optimized version.
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Blogger DeepFreeze said on November 27, 2007 11:29 PM PDT:
Serious that really cool features. Just can't wait to get a Android Enabled phone.

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Anonymous Anonymous said on March 6, 2008 7:37 AM PDT:
Do anyone know any mobile browser(.jar) which can play youtube videos on nokia 5200
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Anonymous Anonymous said on March 6, 2008 7:38 AM PDT:
Do anyone know any mobile browser(.jar) which can play youtube videos on nokia 5200.... if u do then send me the download link to my mail ID -
arun.quantum@gmail.com
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