tinyHippos is now part of Research In Motion (RIM)

Today, we are thrilled to announce that tinyHippos Inc. has been acquired by Research In Motion (RIM). We are extremely excited about our future at RIM and continuing to grow and support Ripple. This is a great step towards our goal of providing a cross-platform mobile application development and testing tool to developers worldwide.  Specifically, we [...]

Ripple 0.4.0 :: Sencha, JQuery Mobile, PhoneGap, WAC … Oh My!

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 [...]

PhoneGap + Ripple – The Best is Yet to Come

I am a big lover of jazz and this past weekend the KW Symphony Orchestra performed a tribute to Frank Sinatra. As I watched the orchestra play I kept looking over at the bass section. The three of them would spend a large portion of the song sitting idle, only to ready themselves once or [...]

Editorial: Are Mobile SDKs Becoming Obsolete?

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 [...]

Ripple V0.3.0 Released

It’s been a month and a half since our last release but we’ve made it worth the wait. We have been working hard on implementing a number of new features, bug fixes and best of all new platform support!

Ripple V0.2.4 – Released

We’ve been pretty quiet on this blog for the past couple of weeks but that’s because we’ve been really busy getting the latest release of Ripple ready. Today, we are happy to announce that we’ve released Version 0.2.4. You can see the full release log here! We’ve added support for more JIL APIs and have [...]

Ripple v 0.2.0 released

We have been heads down and working hard on adding many new features to Ripple over the past 3 weeks. We are happy to announce that we have added support for several JIL Widget APIs to get Ripple closer to Silver compliance support. Those include: AudioPlayer support (you can now test your audio enabled widgets) [...]

Ripple – V 0.1.186 released

Ripple has been silent since our latest release on June 7th. Believe me when I say that for us that felt like an eternity! We’ve been hard at work adding some features and fixing bugs. We even managed to take a bit of time off :-) I’m happy to announce that Version 0.1.186 is has [...]

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 [...]

Ripple Updates

A lot is going on at tinyHippos Inc. and excitement is in the air. We are busy with new releases, new logos, and new support. We are also starting to sign up for some great mobile conferences in the fall. Stay tuned to our blog and we will let you know when and where you will be able [...]

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