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Last week I posted some initial resources related to my DrupalCon San Francisco session Developing Apps for iPhone/iPad/Android using drupal as Base System.

Here is what you need to connect your Drupal site to Titanium App:

• Titanium Developer
• iPhone SDK
• Drupal basic installation
• Services Module
• Modified Version of json_server module

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At Drupalcon San Francisco Aaron and I led a session on developing apps for iPhone/iPad/Android using drupal as base system. Here are slides and videos from that session:

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Recently I needed to add custom breadcrumbs to views 2 generated pages. Now we were using excellent custom_breadcrumbs 1.x to add custom breadcrumbs on site. At that time I discovered that 1.x version of custom_breadcrumbs do not support views generated pages and 2.x version of module (which supports views) is not production stable. So I came up with this solution to create custom breadcrumbs for views pages:

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Quick demo of what we are going to discuss
Original session was posted here
With launch of iPad and NexusOne - iPhone/Android application market can't be ignored. Both these technologies has great potential to use our existing web based tools such as drupal. You can totally use drupal to manage/update your iPhone/Android native application.

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Finally iWebkit theme for drupal-iPhone websites is production ready. Theme now includes Drupal form theming and 12 different subthemes to suit your color preferences.
From Now on this theme will be maintained on drupal.org as iWebkit project.
Features added since last release are:

1. Form elements are now themed. All form elements now looks like default iphone forms. This means there is no need to add custom user-login, comments or node add forms for your iphone website, you can directly use drupal default forms and they will be automatically converted into iPhone style form elements.
   
   • Select list and Checkboxes look like-
   • Radio buttons and Text-area look like-
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An important part of bulding mobile websites is automatic detection of the user-agent (mobile device) so you can switch to an appropriate theme, or re-configure the layout for your mobile browsing. Once you've detected the device, you can present the website in a theme tailored to it.

This second post in my series of tutorials on mobile themes for Drupal focuses on how to implement automatic user-agent detection and switch your base theme to a mobile theme.

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The iPhone and iPod touch continue to gain market share of mobile web traffic. According to edibleapple 48% of all smartphone web requests in the US come from iPhones, while Windows and RIM devices together comprised 34% of mobile web requests.
These numbers show that it is becoming increasingly important to have iPhone compatible websites.

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iDrupal is a project aimed to manage your drupal websites from iPhone / ipod touch. This project is basically designed for three things:

1. iDrupal module to act as a bridge for communication between your iPhone and drupal website.
2. iDrupal_ui theme to for your iPhone browser.
3. And an iPhone application - which is yet to be released in app store.

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If you are a developer, blogger or a client who manages or participated on a technical project, screenshot-taking tools are a very useful way conveying your thoughts and ideas to others on your team. Screenshots save you from lengthy explanation emails and keep your team on same page while discussing an idea. This blog post is about different screen capturing tools available out there and which to use and why.

1. Skitch(mac only):

Skitch is more than just an image capturing tool. It is very quick, simple and efficient. You can edit your images - crop them, draw figures on them, write notes on them and share directly via uploading to skitch, flickr, ftp with many other options. This all is mere drag and drop with nothing complex to learn. Download Skitch. Images in this blog are captured using skitch only.

Shortcut keys with skitch:

• Command-Shift-5 – Crosshairs Snap
• Command-Shift-6 – Fullscreen Snap
• Command-Shift-7 – Frame Snap

There is also a great short video on the Skitch website that gives you a quick overview of how it works and what it can do.

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