As usual, when things go silent on this blog it means that great things are brewing here at tinyHippos. We have been working really hard to make Ripple much more stable, usable, and we added some really cool features. This release, in our humble opinion, brings Ripple into the mainstream. We now have full support [...]
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There is a growing trend in today’s mobile space, some would call this trend frustrating, even infuriating. That trend is the abundance of mobile SDK’s (Software Development Kits) out there today, and it seems like every new platform and runtime provider is rushing to put out their own SDK. SDKs are great if you’re building native [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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We have had the pleasure of working with Perfecto Mobile as developers. We feel that they are the perfect developer’s tool to use alongside the Ripple Emulator. Where the Ripple Emulator allows the developers a look at what is under the hood of their widgets, Perfecto Mobile allows the developer to test their widgets on real [...]
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May is starting out to be an exciting month for tinyHippos and our Ripple Emulator. After our Beta launch last week we now have developers out there using our product and giving us great feedback. Thanks! After a busy week, we’ve managed to push out three releases of Ripple this week. Some of the changes include: Support [...]
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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 [...]
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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. [...]
Filed under: jil, Mobile, mobile widgets, Opera, Ripple, Technical | Tagged: jil, jil api, jil widget, mobile widget, opera widget, widget | 5 Comments »
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 [...]
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