Chapter 12. Making Web Parts mobile
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Over the last few years, the use of mobile devices has exploded. You use mobile phones to read your email and browse the web at work, on the bus...pretty much everywhere. A combination of new and innovative devices and a well-established high-speed mobile network allows you to access information wherever you are. SharePoint 2010 has built-in support for mobile devices that makes the interface adapt to the various devices used to browse a SharePoint site. Using specifically created page views optimized for smaller screens and touch-enabled devices, you can now use SharePoint everywhere on nearly all devices. These views are also optimized to reduce network traffic.
In this chapter we’ll take a look at the mobile interface of SharePoint 2010 and see how you can configure the mobile experience for Web Part pages and Web Parts. Not all Web Parts can be used in mobile devices; you can use only those with specific control adapters that create a mobile interface for the Web Part. I’ll show you how to create and deploy control adapters in a consistent and reusable way.