How to support one website and multiple devices, no responsive design.

Yii 2.0 General Discussions
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For complex pages, I cant totally rely on responsive design. I would like to write view code in different files.

As long as I see, there are two solutions.

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[*]Inherit and overwrite Views’s render() method, inside the new render(), detect the device, and design which file should be use, i.e: page.html or page.mobile.html.

[*]Create a new theme called ‘mobile’. Design which theme to use in beforeAction() or beforRequest();

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Can anyone tell me which is better. Or may be both are not good enough? Are there other better ones? Thanks.

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Using a theme called mobile, and changing the theme used is better, because only one variable changes, the rest of views keeps with same name.

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Thanks Menapro!

Yes, using theme is simpler. However I wonder if it is a good practice to use theme in this way. I think theme is more about styles (as what its name mean). For example,

a "forest" theme or a "iron" theme. Maybe one day we will need forest theme on both PC and mobile?

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Sorry I make a mistake, View should be inherited rather than Controller. Modified.