Stan Ascher

Jessie Beach, a  respected content management platform themer ande mobile developoper shared herthoughts and observations about

• Dealing with several OS systems and Browsers.
• Show diagram of OpenSignal Android Device Map
• She says by 2016 there will be about 8 billion mobile devices – that’s more devices then people.

Her talk is about tooling.

• Showed a diagram about Fidelity Spectrum
• She says it’s nearly impossible to develop from the specification out.
• She suggests using canIuse.com to see what devices can use what software features of technology (JavaScript, flash, etc)
• She typically uses chrome and a text editor to develop, but says that Firefox has bitten her recently.
• Use 10.0.2.2 – a trick called the loopback url.  Edit your hosts file
• Talking about the Android SDK
• She says you need to build a virtual machine for testing
• You can get it downloaded – it’s about 4 gigs
• You can use the loop ip trick to get your virtualized emulator to look at your local machine.
• There is a similar method for iOS xcode emulator.
• She recommends that you should prefer native implantations when polyfilliing.