Mobile Theme Build Thread

[Biology Forums]

Hello all,

I've decided to share the progress of my mobile theme build.

Using one of Antechinus' mobile themes (which he was kind enough to lend me), I've decided to create a full mobile theme for one of my forums. I will not release the code, just want to keep track of it.

[Diego Andrés]

Looking good

[ARG01]

Nice. 

[margarett]

* margarett much likes the navigation panel

I will not release the code

I will riot

[Biology Forums]

Completed the search template.

[Bigguy]

Very nice so far.

[Biology Forums]

Member's template is done!

[Biology Forums]

The stats page is complete.

[live627]

Those are some very nice design ideas. I'm gonna steal *cough* borrow some of those for my custom theme.

[Biology Forums]

Those are some very nice design ideas. I'm gonna steal *cough* borrow some of those for my custom theme.

Be my guest I started this thread to inspire.

More updates to come.

[Biology Forums]

Staff page complete.

Last image is the main forum again, notice the menu changes

[margarett]

It looks really nice, congrats.

Just out of curiosity, is this for your 1.1.x forum?

[Biology Forums]

Yes it is, margarett. It will officially be used when it's all complete. Still *a lot* to do.

[Biology Forums]

Finally, the display.template.php!

So much coding involved in this one.

[Biology Forums]

Beta version is now live!

You can try it out in real-time if you look. Still only 50% complete...

[margarett]

Dang, that's nice.

The navigation side bar looks so good that it hurts!

[Biology Forums]

Haha, thx margarett. I will update y'all at the 75% range and the finale.

[Biology Forums]

It's official, the theme is no longer in its beta state, but is now live!

If you use your smartphone, it should work automatically. Keep in mind, a lot of subtle changes are to come, minor detail work.

The forum dictionary that runs on Mediawiki is next.

[Hj Ahmad Rasyid Hj Ismail]

Nice work. I really like it.

[Sapozhnik]

Super!!! It looks really very nice!!!
What about SMF 2.x.x?

[Biology Forums]

Super!!! It looks really very nice!!!
What about SMF 2.x.x?

Ha! Don't think that will ever happen. This literally took me 1.5 months to complete, working on it 1 to 3 hours daily. I probably put 80 total hours of work to get it to this point and it's only 80% done.

Thanks for the compliments. Feel free to replicate it though, the design, the idea.

[Gluz]

Just for curiosity, what kind of mobile device do you have that the captures are square?

The theme looks really good, too bad that is for 1.1.x, in two of my 2.0.x forums need some "mobile friendly" theme as the themes I have are not responsive at all and can't afford SMF4Mobile.

[Biology Forums]

I am using the BlackBerry Passport - great visibility, great device. I have also tested it on an iPhone 4. Visibility was OK, but it still looked nice.

PM Sent*

[roshaoar]

Nice

[Antechinus]

Hello all,

I've decided to share the progress of my mobile theme build.

Using one of Antechinus' mobile themes (which he was kind enough to lend me), I've decided to create a full mobile theme for one of my forums. I will not release the code, just want to keep track of it.

I didn't exactly "lend" it to you. That would imply I would be asking for it back at some stage. What I did was give you all the files for the thing, on the basis you could do what you liked with it as long as you didn't keep the original site's look and images (which you didn't want anyway).

You've done a nice job converting it to match your site, and have obviously added a few extra tweaks to functionality too. If anyone is curious, for comparison the original beast is over here: Mobile theme ideas (split from Outline).

Super!!! It looks really very nice!!!
What about SMF 2.x.x?

Lotsa work. There's probably not much point at this stage, since 2.1 is arguably stable enough for live use (assuming you're not a beginner admin) and 2.1 is responsive anyway. However if anyone was feeling dedicated enough, it'd certainly be possible to drop 2.0.x logic into the same markup and css. It wouldn't be a job for beginners though.

The other alternative, if you need something free for 2.0.x and that works on mobile, would be to use the old Curve mobile theme that Dragoon made ages ago. It's very simple, but it was a freebie and was quite functional. There are a few others too. See this page and try some of them out as test themes: http://custom.simplemachines.org/themes/index.php?action=search;basic_search=mobile

[Biology Forums]

You've done a nice job converting it to match your site, and have obviously added a few extra tweaks to functionality too. If anyone is curious, for comparison the original beast is over here: Mobile theme ideas (split from Outline).

Thank you. And yes, it was the original beast that started it all.

Lotsa work. There's probably not much point at this stage, since 2.1 is arguably stable enough for live use (assuming you're not a beginner admin) and 2.1 is responsive anyway. However if anyone was feeling dedicated enough, it'd certainly be possible to drop 2.0.x logic into the same markup and css. It wouldn't be a job for beginners though.

Correct, definitely not a job for beginners. I knew enough PHP and CSS to get it this way; also had to clean up a lot of the coding that was left behind from the original and add a lot of custom coding myself.

[Pipee]

good work!