Applications, either for mobile, tablet and beyond rely mostly on input from the user through forms and although the tools have been around for some time now, to create forms that both improves the UX and works properly is still a tough grind. For instance in the case of a date picker our goal is […]
Picking a date range is a very common task in web apps or mobile apps, just think about a booking of any kind (flight, car rental, vacation etc.), but often it can be a nightmare for your customers, especially on mobile devices. At Mobiscroll we try to bring the best UX solutions to work out […]
Last month I was attending the jQuery Europe conference in Vienna with the Mobiscroll team. There was a session called Getting touchy which gave an insight into touch events and talked about why we need them. There is a lot of ground that the presentation covers, so make sure to check out the slides. I […]
We created a couple of demo apps that are using Mobiscroll components and our version of a TODO App is one of them. See all demo apps and kitchen sink demos here. Besides writing demos focused on specific features and configurations we wanted to tackle a “real-life” scenario. So the the app focusing on daily […]
Building a Mobile UI Library that is appealing, works across multiple platforms and performs well is not easy. It involves a lot of experimenting and testing. Bringing it to the tool-belt of tens of thousands of developers across the globe is even harder. We’re going to share a couple of things about how we build […]
Mobiscroll started out as Date & Time picker simulating native UI controls (like datepicker, timepicker, spinning list etc.) of an OS, which were not possible to invoke in web apps, at least not on every platform. For some time it supported only one display mode, a modal popup, which appeared in the center of the […]
If you ever used the native datepicker on iOS, you probably noticed the sound effect while the wheels are spinning. We tried to add the same effect to Mobiscroll by using the HTML5 audio element. At a first glance it seemed pretty straight forward, as all the modern browsers claim to support HTML5, but because […]