The Exadel Blog

As this week wraps up, we’re ex­cited to see ev­i­dence that Tiggzi, our mo­bile app de­vel­op­ment plat­form, is be­gin­ning to get no­ticed for the great plat­form that it is. Great re­views for Tiggzi re­cently ap­peared in TechCrunch, Technorati, and Mashable. If you have a chance, check them out:

• Drag-​​And-​​Drop Mobile App Builder Tiggzi Makes Building Native And Web Apps Easier, Adds SMS and mHealth Plugins
  TechCrunch (June 12, 2012)
  This ar­ticle pro­vide a good overview of re­cently added fea­tures in Tiggzi along with some fea­tures that will be re­leased next week.
• Tiggzi: Making Mobile App Building Easy
  Technorati (June 12, 2012)
  As you can see from the title, this ar­ticle fo­cuses on how Tiggzi makes it much easier to build apps.
• New App Bridges Communication Gap Between Devs and Small Biz
  Mashable (June 13, 2012)
  This ar­ticle fo­cuses on Exadel’s view of small busi­ness as a major growth area for mo­bile apps and how Tiggzi makes it easier for small busi­ness to “mobilize.”

Tags: article, Mashable, mHealth, mobile application development, plug-in, small business, SMS, TechCrunch, Technorati, Tiggzi

Tiggzi, our cloud-​​based plat­form for building mo­bile apps, has al­ways been based on a prac­tical just-​​do-​​it kind of ap­proach. We were de­lighted to see a new book out with this kind of phi­los­ophy, too. The Bootstrapper’s Guide to the Mobile Web by Deltina Hay is a great hands-​​on guide that tar­gets in­di­vidual en­tre­pre­neurs and small busi­nesses who want to get into mo­bile quickly. The book neatly di­vides up this task into mo­bile web de­vel­op­ment, mo­bile app de­vel­op­ment, and mo­bile pro­mo­tion tac­tics. It’s a clearly written book full of spe­cific ex­am­ples that covers a lot of ground ef­fi­ciently and quickly. Read more »

Tags: books, Deltina Hay, mobile apps, mobile design, mobile development, mobile promotion, mobile web, prototypes, prototyping

How APIs Are Exposing Value and Changing the Nature of the Internet

In 2012, the client-​​server par­a­digm, which has dom­i­nated ap­pli­ca­tion ar­chi­tec­ture — and the modern Web ar­chi­tec­ture which is its most modern in­car­na­tion — over the past twenty years, is giving ground to a more broadly dis­trib­uted client-​​cloud ap­proach. As this shift hap­pens, it promises to un­lock value in pre­vi­ously under-​​utilized en­ter­prise data and media con­tent. The cat­a­lyst for this change is to be found in the ex­plo­sion of ap­pli­ca­tion pro­gram­ming in­ter­faces, or APIs, which ex­pose re­sources within and be­yond the cor­po­rate fire­wall and re­de­fine the on­line economy. Read more »

Tags: API economy, APIs, citizen developer, client server, client-cloud, public APIs, white paper

Do you want to see how to use in-​​app car­rier billing in de­vel­oping a mo­bile app? On May 23, you’ll have the chance in a we­binar or­ga­nized by Exadel, WAC, and Deutsche Telecom’s Developer Garden. Read more »

Tags: APIs, Deutsche Telekom, Developer Garden, in-app billing, mobile application development, mobile apps, plug-in, REST service, service catalog, telecom, Tiggzi, WAC

Yesterday, Max Katz pre­sented Tiggzi Mobile App Builder at a Mobile Monday fo­cusing on multi-​​platform build tools held at the Verizon San Francisco App Innovation Center. Also pre­senting were PhoneGap, Marmalade, and Trigger​.io. Read more »

Tags: Marmalade, mobile monday, PhoneGap, photos, Tiggzi, Trigger.io, Verizon

Exadel is busy sharing our ex­cite­ment about cloud com­puting and mo­bile de­vel­op­ment, mostly around Tiggzi Mobile App Builder, in a a va­riety of venues. Here’s a sum­mary list of what we are doing today, what we’ve been up to re­cently, and what we’ll be doing in the next couple of months. Read more »

Tags: Aepona, Android, calendar, cloud, conference, events, hackathon, HTML5, jQuery, jQuery Mobile, Max Katz, mobile apps, mobile business, mobile development, session, workshop

At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Exadel an­nounced a part­ner­ship with Aepona, the market leader in Network-​​as-​​a-​​Service so­lu­tions, to make it easier for mo­bile de­vel­opers to take ad­van­tage of Aepona’s ser­vice APIs for its telecom part­ners by in­te­grating the APIs with Tiggzi Mobile App Builder. As a first step, Tiggzi now in­te­grates the Aepona billing and au­then­ti­ca­tion APIs for in­cor­po­rating in-​​app car­rier billing ca­pa­bil­i­ties that elim­i­nate the need for a credit card or PayPal account.

Come join us as Exadel and Aepona present a hands-​​on in­ter­ac­tive we­binar about this. See for your­self how to use the Aepona APIs as we build an app in min­utes. Read more »

Tags: Aepona, Android, APIs, in-app billing, mobile application development, mobile apps, plug-in, REST service, service catalog, telecom, Tiggzi

In this ar­ticle, we’ll learn how to im­ple­ment a very simple ex­ample of an HTML5 drag-​​and-​​drop in ac­tion. We’ll de­fine a drag­gable image that can be dropped into a circle. You’ll see this ex­ample and say “That’s so easy!”. But don’t rush to any con­clu­sions. In more com­plex use cases, it’s not such a piece of cake any­more and can be­come a real pain in the neck! Read more »

Tags: Chrome, CSS, drag-and-drop, HTML5, JavaScript, Safari, UI

Tiggzi Mobile App Builder stands out in how easy it is to in­cor­po­rate REST ser­vices with public APIs into mo­bile apps. Tiggzi now makes it even easier by prepack­aging the steps you would go through to con­nect an app to a ser­vice as plug-​​ins. Along with this new plug-​​in fea­ture for easy code re-​​use, get a peek at our new Service Catalog we’ll be growing with pre-​​packaged ver­sions of pop­ular and useful APIs. Also, see the re-​​designed Visual Data Mapper. Read more »

Tags: Android, APIs, catalog, data mapping, JavaScript, Max Katz, mobile application development, mobile apps, plug-in, REST service, service catalog, Tiggzi

 

[David Schoenbach is part of the Exadel team at the Barcelona Mobile World Conference. He took a few min­utes out of the whirl­wind of ac­tiv­i­ties there to send us this re­port. –Ed.] Read more »

Tags: Aepona, APIs, Exadel, in-app billing, Mobile World Congress, Tiggzi, WAC