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Is there an optimized way to view a CiviCRM installation on a mobile platform such as Android or the iPhone? We just set up and installation and have lots of people in our organization that use smartphones and it would be extremely useful for us.

When we now try and access it the main nav menu at the top is not accessible at it relies on javascript.

Any thoughts are appreciated.

Thanks

If I use a drupal theme that is optimized for the web would not that theme also show when viewing with a normal computer? Or will it be able to tell what the platform is and render appropriately? I know that this is more of a Drupal question than a CiviCRM question.

I wish that my org did have the expertise to help develop something like this; perhaps once I get deeper into it I can involve some of the actual programmers and come up with something.

This is indeed *mostly* a Drupal issue as virtually all of the serious issues can be handled on the Drupal end. See http://drupal.org/project/mobileplugin for a tool to switch themes based on user agent. There is also http://groups.drupal.org/mobile

I recently created a mobile version of a Drupal site (not CiviCRM) and it involved a lot of custom programming--the content itself needed to be presented in a different way to create a truly usable site for an iPhone. CiviCRM itself also will, out of the box, not lend itself well at all to a very small device such as an iPhone, due to the inherent wideness of many/most screens.