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Mobile Web Performance Optimization

By : S. S. Niranga
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Mobile Web Performance Optimization

By: S. S. Niranga

Overview of this book

With users increasingly accessing the web on mobile devices, it’s crucial to make sure your website is built to seamlessly fit this radical change in user behavior. Mobile Web Performance Optimization is designed to help you do exactly that – it’s been created to help you build fast, and mobile-user-friendly websites and applications. Featuring guidance through a range of techniques and tools essential to modern mobile development, this accessible guide will make sure you’re delivering a seamless and intuitive experience for your website’s users. Begin by exploring the fundamental components of mobile web design and website optimization, before learning how to put the concepts into practice. Featuring cross-platform solutions, insights on developing lightweight yet robust UI, and insights on how to successfully manage data, this application development book takes you through every stage in the development process – so you can be confident that you’re asking the right questions and using the best tools in the most effective way. By the end, you’ll understand implicitly what it means to ‘build for performance’- you’ll be a more confident developer, capable of building projects that adapt to a changing world.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Mobile Web Performance Optimization
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Screen rotations


The introduction of the accelerometer in mobile devices has created new opportunities for developers to create an application that is creative, innovative, and user-friendly. The accelerometer allows the device to detect the physical orientation of the device so we can use that information in our application. For example, if you open the calculator application on your device, in vertical view it will behave like a regular calculator. If you change the orientation to horizontal, the calculator will turn into a scientific calculator. However, if we don't manage the screen rotation efficiently, it may cause issues.

With some mobile applications, screen orientation initiates network connection just for that event. This wastes the device's battery power and consumes network resources.

However, to use the accelerometer efficiently, you need to track the orientation locally and send these details at scheduled intervals, bundled with another event. Using this method, we can save power...