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I made the mistake of digging around and looking at how you should implement focusing in a web app. I quickly found each browser has it's own quirks and has rather different behavior compared to focusing in Android.

Just a cheeky post on how to test Spatial Navigation in Opera TV.

Ever wondered what exactly happens when you try to get a mobile device display a desktop site correctly, with the required zoom level?

Half marathon run, legs tired and £1000 raised for Rocking Horse Childrens Charity.

In this post I'll cover how you can hook Yeoman and Cordova together so you get the benefits from Yeoman with the ease of deployment from Cordova.

Most sites don't respond to a users touch. This raises the question of how should you respond?

A new responsive design of gauntface.co.uk

At Google I/O 2013 I presented "Modern Workflow for the Mobile Web". This talk covers all the tools you need to get going with developing for the mobile web, saving you pain and time.

If you've ever needed to get the VideoView to size a video with the correct aspect ratio and found that the Android VideoView isn't working for you then give this a try....

Quick notes on how to remove the CodeIgniter index.php from the urls when hosted on an Apache server.

I wanted to get Sublime to show up in my menu of applications in Debian. Find out how I did it and use it for any of your own apps.

Having unwanted files in a git repo is just a pain and can often bloat your repo, often resulting in problems when working with others. Here's a brain dump of using the global git ignore and the files I ignore by default.

After travelling around Europe giving presentations on Google TV, I rounded the year off with presenting at Droidcon NL. This post has the slide deck and a cheeky image of one of our more *interesting* office hours.

The main method of input for a TV based device is the D-Pad. Up, Down, Left and Right. How should you handled this in a web app?

The navigation drawer has been turned into a standard Android design pattern after the community embraced it as the de facto way to navigate applications. This is a look at the most common libraries to see how they scare up on Google TV.

A common practice for web developers targeting TVs seems to be taking the 720p UI and simply zooming in on it to fill a 1080p screen. But this isn't the best way.

A nice a simple way of getting more from your command line using Paul Irish's dotfiles

This is more of a personal note on how create a new git repo and get it pushed to Google Code. (It's kind of the reverse of how I start a Github repo)

A look at the best practices for UI on TV and comparing them to what we have on Android today.

The Anymote library for Google TV had a few issues when I tried to build it, so for anyone else trying to do the same, this might have a few helpful tips on getting there.

Google TV needs a few tweaks to the standard In App Billing example for Android to get it working.

Leaving Future Platforms for Google .... aaahhhh yeah.

Matt Gaunt was asked to give a presentation on the current state of affairs in the mobile landscape at the Skillset Academy in Newport, Wales. Here's the slide deck.

A look back on my thesis at University on the "Mobile Eye" project. The idea of projecting on the world around you manipulating and annotating it with useful information.

Challenged with the task of talking to the Mobile group of Brighton about Android Resources, Matt Gaunt put on one hell of a show . . . . . and you know told some people about Android Resources for design and layout.