The Wholesale Application Community is looking for your input

The Wholesale Application Community is looking for our feedback! If you are a mobile developer, we would like to encourage you to take some time and provide your input through The Wholesale Application Community‘s developer survey. What is the Wholesale App….. WAC for short :-) you might ask? The definition on their site describes them [...]

JIL on Android: Thoughts

The Android release of the JIL Widget Manager came out a little while ago with support for Android 1.6 and 2.1. You can download the Android (or Nokia S60) runtime here, listed under “Widget Run-Times”. Installation Installing the widget manager and runtime is pretty straightforward. You download the .apk file to your sd card, then install it [...]

Mobile Widgets – Dynamic Layout Example

This is the third post in our on-going series on Mobile Widget development. The first two can be found here: Mobile Widgets – Persistence Cross-Platform Wrapper Mobile Widgets – a primer Over the past few weeks we’ve seen many developers gravitate towards using Position: fixed in their CSS to pin their widget’s header and footer [...]

Beta: A walk through The Ripple Emulator’s features

The Ripple Emulator Goes Beta Update: For a thorough tour of Ripple in it’s latest form, check out the Ripple Docs here. Today is the day we launch the Beta version of The Ripple Emulator, a browser based mobile emulator. So we thought we’d explain the current feature set to help you get started and [...]

Mobile Widgets – Persistence Cross-Platform Wrapper

This is the second post in our series on building Mobile Widgets. The first post was an introduction to Mobile Widgets. Mobile Widgets – a primer In this post we will build a persistence library that works across multiple platforms and abstracts away the differences of those different platforms into a common set of methods. [...]

Announcing The Ripple Emulator beta launch – 20 days to go

Wondering what the tinyHippos have been up to for the past few months??  Well – if you haven’t had the pleasure of attending a local event in the Kitchener/Waterloo region where you would have been captivated by our demo…  then you are in for a treat!  The boys are finally ready to come out of [...]

JIL Mobile Widget API

Over the past few months we’ve been hard at work building a product that will help mobile widget and mobile web developers better test, debug and deploy their mobile applications. We have started by supporting the JIL mobile widget platform but have been struggling with gaining access to the information we need as well as [...]

Mobile Widgets – a primer

This is the first in a series we will be writing over the next few weeks, introducing Mobile Widgets, the different platforms, and why we think they could very well be the future of mobile applications. This article is the primer, an introduction if you will. Today… …there are two major and well accepted ways [...]

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