Optimise ASP.NET application IPhone and Android browsers for ASP.NET application

I ha开发者_如何学Gove an ASP.NET (not MVC) application.

I would like to create a version that is optimised for browsers on the IPhone and on Android.

Some questions

• Is it possible to detect IPhone/Android when the site is accessed
• Are there any gotchas/tips for developing ASP.NET for these devices.

We're using a combination of .net webforms and jQuery mobile.

For our viewstate, it's been pretty well neutered already so only minor stuff is going down to the device.

Bear in mind that there are around 3 different mobile api's. Each of which has their own drawbacks. You might want to investigate each.

Also, we took the approach that the mobile site was a completely different website than our standard one. When the user comes in, we do some browser sniffing and push them to mobile if it matches with a link to move back to the full one if they want.

Webforms aren´t good for mobile, it generates big pages because viewstate. And you can´t control rendering (some more in .net4).

You can detect device using a db of capabilities like WURFL (I recommend 51degrees) o maybe using some like http://detectmobilebrowser.com/

I don´t know what kind of webapp but you could make a new app, maybe using MVC. Please look this resource.