The Exadel Blog

We’ve been to a lot of AT&T hackathons and have been very im­pressed with these events. Now, AT&T is putting on a new event here in the San Francisco Bay Area called DevLab, a one-​​day hands-​​on pro­gram­ming work­shop to im­merse par­tic­i­pants in the latest ser­vices and tools for mo­bile app de­vel­op­ment. It will be held on September 25th at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. (You can use the code MUSEUM to waive the reg­is­tra­tion charge.) Read more »

Tags: APIs, Application Resource Optimizer, ARO, AT&T, DevLab, Eric Ries, Michael Lopp, mobile development, Watson Speech API

Mashable just pub­lished an ar­ticle on “How Web APIs Unlock Value in the Cloud” by Exadel’s VP of Product Management, David Schoenbach. In this ar­ticle, David covers a lot of ex­am­ples of the spread of web APIs and the im­pli­ca­tions of this spread (in­cluding an­swering the all-​​important ques­tion “What’s my mo­bile strategy?”). Here’s the lead para­graph from the article:

The cloud is where it’s at. It’s where busi­ness data re­sides. It’s where so­cial user-​​generated con­tent sits, where forward-​​thinking cre­ators place their tools. Unfortunately, the cloud is also the place all that good stuff stays, un­used and unloved. That is, un­less you offer smart ways to ac­cess it. That is where a web API comes in.

Read the com­plete article.

Tags: APIs, article, cloud, Mashable, mobile strategy, web APIs

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

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

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

Today, Exadel and the Wholesale Applications Community (WAC), a not-​​for-​​profit or­ga­ni­za­tion serving the global telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions in­dustry, an­nounced a part­ner­ship that will help de­vel­opers and net­work op­er­a­tors gen­erate new rev­enues from mo­bile ap­pli­ca­tions. The first step in this part­ner­ship is to en­able users of Tiggzi Mobile App Builder, our cloud-​​based cross-​​platform de­vel­op­ment en­vi­ron­ment, to easily uti­lize WAC’s in-​​app billing API to offer in-​​app billing ca­pa­bil­i­ties without the need for a credit card or PayPal account.

Find out more!

Tags: APIs, in-app billing, mobile application development, Mobile World Congress, telco, telecommunications, Tiggzi, WAC, Wholesale Applications Community

Exadel re­cently re­leased a new white paper: The Client-​​Cloud Paradigm and the API Economy. In this paper, we talk about the shift from the client-​​server model with its more fixed con­nec­tions to a client-​​cloud model in which the dis­trib­uted na­ture of com­puting makes a quantum leap. We also dis­cuss the re­la­tion­ship of this major shift to the ex­plo­sion in API-​​defined ser­vices and the rise of the “cit­izen developer.”

Read it now! (It’s a 4-​​page PDF.)

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

So far this year, we’ve done three we­bi­nars on Tiggzi on the fol­lowing topics:

• Learn How to Build Mobile Apps in the Cloud with HTML5, jQuery Mobile, REST, and PhoneGap (January 19)
• Build Your Mobile App in Minutes with Tiggzi for Musicians (January 31)
• Building HTML5 Mobile Apps with Tiggzi Using Parse Back-​​end Services (February 23)

All three are avail­able on YouTube as record­ings: Read more »

Tags: Android, APIs, back end, back-end services, cloud, CSS3, HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery Mobile, Max Katz, mobile application development, mobile apps, music, Parse, PhoneGap, Tiggzi