Mobile: Responsive or Fixed Page Dimensions?

dan1492 · 2024-07-23T00:22:26.269Z

When building a mobile app, should I make the page a fixed width/height?

With a responsive design I couldn’t figure out how to get elements to stack on top of each other. I want to have a video player with the controls and title on top of the video as it’s playing. Couldn’t get it this way without a fixed design. However, I’m worried that the app won’t function well across different mobile devices. Planning to use BDK to make it native mobile.

msgiblin · 2024-07-23T03:27:13.716Z

Hi there,

I definitely recommend, as will just about everyone else on this forum, to build in Responsive, because as you mentioned you need it to play across multiple devices.

I would say to start here:

Bubble

The best way I learned was just trial and error by doing. I hope this approach works for you as well!

AndyMountHood · 2024-07-23T04:18:05.848Z

The only way I can see to do it with responsive design is with Align to Parent (Under the hood with Bubble's responsive engine: A short guide to responsive design in Bubble | Medium) but I don’t know how well that would work in your situation. Maybe someone knows a plugin for this situation?