I tried
MVC4 mobile templates for a blackberry application for my company, as a preview
of the power of mobile apps, all our company employee have blackberry devices so,
making use of some web Blackberry application essential.
First
impression with the default template was it was very cool for if viewed on iPhone
or android with large screen and high resolution colors with all the curves and
style working, but for the blackberry it was not.
Plus
the performance was horrible and very slow, different employees so different output
(that was because the style sheet was still downloading).
With
a very simple start up page containing only a small menu of 3 elements it took
about 4-6 sec to load and that was not accepted. I was using the blackberry
curve 9300.
So after
some analysis, the Jquery and the style sheet are so big for these devices it
was about 400K, so I started removing and cleaning, after stripping JQuery out
and starting with a new style sheet from scratch, I got a good result with
about 2Kb only, now my colleges accepted the performance that was less than a
second for loading the pages, or at the max 2 sec for the pages that contain
more data.
even if you say the first style is better on the device it was without the curves so a lot similar to the current one. you can check it here
Another
problem raised to the surface and that was security, the application I was
trying to expose this mobile new interface was on IIS with windows authentication
that didn’t work with blackberry at all. So detecting the user and login him in
the application was a new task, I didn’t like the idea of user name/pwd specific
for the application or even to connect it with Active Directory. I needed something
simpler and easy to use. The only Ideas I have are as follow:
·
Use simple user PIN code
for each user
·
Use certificate on devices
·
Detect the IP, if its
static identify user with it. (im working here ), and filtering by Browser Agent
or if there any other method !!
So until
I manage the security part I think this project will be on the shelf for now.
and i need to give this back to a graphic designer that will return the style to look good and to work good to. as below expected pages:-\
