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We're designing web apps using jQuery Mobile. We have been using a theme that looks very much like iOS - with the right pointing carets, for example. I hadn't

We're designing web apps using jQuery Mobile. We have been using a theme that looks very much like iOS - with the right pointing carets, for example. I hadn't really considered that it'll look foreign to the Android user. Are there toolkits for designing Web apps that automatically switch themes, based on the User Agent? It'd be very cool to design it once, and then have the site rendered to look a little more native, depending on the platform. But maybe that's a dream.

masklinn 15y ago
> I hadn't really considered that it'll look foreign to the Android user. Only to ICS users (if that) since consistency between applications has not exactly been a forte of Android before ICS (hence TFA). And you'll still likely end up with issues due to vendor-custom themes (Motoblur, Sense, TouchWiz) which may very well look nothing like Holo. > It'd be very cool to design it once, and then have the site rendered to look a little more native, depending on the platform. But maybe that's a dream. It's hard to pull for "native" toolkits to start with (see e.g. wxWidgets or Qt, they often get close on "look" with a lot of efforts, they usually have big issues on "feel"), but for web applications? Yeah we're not in the realm of "hard" anymore but way beyond.