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We are thrilled to announce that Google will be sponsoring 20 Drupal projects for Summer of Code 2011. We'd like to extend our sincere thanks to Google, who are investing over $110,000 in the Drupal project.

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I'm happy to announce that I'll be presenting the session, Developing Apps for iPhone/iPad/Android Using Drupal As A Base System at DrupalCon Chicago!

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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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