One of the biggest challenges facing mobile developers is the huge range of different mobile devices that their users seem intent on using. Unlike the traditional web (where there are small numbers of relatively similar browsers) there are hundreds of web enabled mobile devices and—they are all a little bit different.
Understanding the differences and similarities between those thousands of mobile devices is an important part of modern mobile development yet finding detailed and accurate information—then using it sensibly—is remarkably difficult.
DeviceAtlas is designed to make this task easier. We intend this to be the single largest, most comprehensive, and accurate device database on the planet—and to provide the supporting tools, techniques and assistance that you need to take that data and use it to rock your mobile users' world.
DeviceAtlas provides data for thousands of device. Each device has its own page on which we show a number of properties about that device. All properties are clickable. Clicking on a particular data field allows you to see the provenance and heritage of that data.
The DeviceAtlas API (when provided with the device data) allows you to perform convenient device recognition and retrieve device properties in your application.
Our data comes from a variety of sources which include communtity contribution. You can contribute to DeviceAtlas in the following ways: