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 [...]

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