Ask HN: Does mobiles supports websockets?

3 points by itsbits 12y ago ↗ HN

I made a HTML5 game which runs fine in almost all pc web browsers. I also made a mobile version of the game but its not running in any of the browsers in Android/iphone devices. Not able to debug deep but as i am using websockets i am thinking it may be the reason. Does they support?

PS: I tested the game in PC by changing dimensions from Chrome dev tools. it was working the way i want but not in mobiles

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almost 12y ago ↗

http://caniuse.com/#search=websockets

Looks like iPhone does but the Android browser doesn't. You may want to use a library that provides fallbacks like http://socket.io which works fine on mobile (I'm using it on my new app at http://head2.me )

itsbits 12y ago ↗

thanks..the link helps...its websockets that causing issue...should have used socket.io for basic websocket as well...looks so easy..i used Apache Web Server..had to configure a lot to make it work for ws protocol...