Mobile experience

Pages are optimized on smartphones, desktops, or almost any device. This is made possible with the WebSphere Portal Mobile Experience, Web Experience Factory Smartphone Builders, or the Mobile Portal Accelerator.

The Mobile Experience targets the Apple, Android, and Blackberry smartphones using a lightweight architecture that provides exceptional performance on mobile devices. Web Experience Factory includes new builders to help you develop for mobile devices too. As an alternative to the Mobile Experience, the Mobile Portal Accelerator provides a wide range of device support.

WebSphere Portal Mobile Experience

The Mobile Experience includes a set of widgets that showcase common navigation and content interaction patterns that are designed specifically for mobile devices. You can start with the sample code and then customize aspects to meet your specific business needs.

The Mobile Experience is available on the Lotus and WebSphere Portal Business Solutions Catalog.

The Mobile Experience includes:

Sample mobile navigation widgets that follow common mobile application navigation patterns
Sample mobile page layouts that demonstrate common content interaction patterns

Web Experience Factory

Web Experience Factory includes new smartphone builders and samples to help developers generate mobile portlets and pages faster. Automation components include:

Native-looking navigation tabs, lists, buttons, and controls
Scrolling lists with display options, such as thumbnails and multiple line test with multiple styles
Access to smartphone features, such as HTML 5, orientation, and geographical location
Input UI patterns appropriate for smartphones, such as selectable lists and check box lists

Mobile Portal Accelerator

If your site needs to support a broad range of mobile devices, the Mobile Portal Accelerator provides a mobile multi-channel server solution. Mobile Portal Accelerator offers a multi-channel server and mobile device repository capable of automating web page presentation to over 8400 mobile devices; each optimized to the display and services capabilities of the mobile devices, including smartphones, tablets, handheld phones, and kiosk devices. Using this approach, Site developers can author web and content pages one time. Then, the multi-channel server solution automates the presentation for optimized display on thousands of mobile devices