The Exadel Blog

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

A lot of the height at­tained by Tiggr Mobile Apps Builder as a mo­bile de­vel­op­ment plat­form comes from “standing on the shoul­ders of Giants.” One of those Giants is PhoneGap. So, when the people at PhoneGap asked Exadel’s Max Katz to post an ar­ticle on their blog about how Exadel’s Tiggr works with PhoneGap, he jumped at the chance re­sulting in the ar­ticle, “Building Mobile Apps in the Cloud with Tiggr and PhoneGap” posted just last week. Read more »

Tags: mobile design, mobile development, native app, PhoneGap, rapid mobile development, responsive suipport, Tiggr

Crawford Comeaux, an in­de­pen­dent mo­bile de­vel­oper, re­cently posted an in­ter­esting ar­ticle on the StackMob blog about quickly de­vel­oping a prize-​​winning mo­bile Web app using StackMob and Tiggr. He raises sev­eral points about using these to­gether to ac­com­plish his goal:

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Tags: mobile design, mobile development, non-coders, prototyping, rapid mobile development, responsive suipport, StackMob, Tiggr

Exadel’s Tiggr Mobile Apps Builder, as you can see in the name, is usu­ally thought of as a plat­form for cre­ating com­plete mo­bile apps, but it also has a lot of use­ful­ness as a mo­bile pro­to­typing tool. In the ar­ticle, “Innovative Features in Tiggr Mobile Apps Builder,” on the UX Movement blog (cov­ering UI and user ex­pe­ri­ence is­sues), Exadel’s Max Katz ex­plains how to use Tiggr as a rapid pro­to­typing tool. These are the key pro­to­typing fea­tures de­tailed in the article:

• Dragging and drop­ping com­po­nents in a vi­sual editor
• Assigning ac­tions to com­po­nent events
• Publishing the pro­to­type to view from any­where at any point in the de­sign process
• A va­riety of ex­port op­tions to move the pro­to­type as a project to other systems

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Tags: mobile design, mobile development, prototypes, prototyping, Tiggr

Paul Anthony, owner of Webdistortion​.com, has pub­lished a re­view of Tiggr Mobile Apps Builder on his pop­ular Web de­sign blog. Webdistortion​.com is a young and in­no­v­a­tive Web de­sign studio based in Northern Ireland that de­velops in­no­v­a­tive Web de­sign so­lu­tions for a range of small to medium en­ter­prises. On his blog, you can find every­thing from the latest Web 2.0 de­sign trends to how-​​to articles.

So, we were quite ex­cited to find out that he had re­viewed Tiggr and liked it. From au­to­mat­i­cally gen­er­ating per­fectly formed HTML rep­re­sen­ta­tions of UI com­po­nents to using the point-​​and-​​click na­ture of the in­ter­face, you can read Paul’s first-​​hand ex­pe­ri­ence of using Tiggr at http://​blog​.web​dis​tor​tion​.com/​2​0​1​1​/​0​8​/​0​2​/​t​i​g​g​r​-​c​l​o​u​d​-​b​a​s​e​d​-​m​o​b​i​l​e​-​a​p​p​l​i​c​a​t​i​o​n​-​d​e​v​e​l​o​p​m​e​nt/.

Update August 5, 2011

Contador Harrison Wanarua is a soft­ware and mo­bile ap­pli­ca­tions de­vel­oper based in Helsinki, Finland. He re­cently wrote a nice re­view of Tiggr on his NEWS AND REVIEWS ABOUT MOBILE PHONES blog. Check it out.

Tags: mobile, mobile apps, mobile design, review, Tiggr, UI