The Exadel Blog

The Silicon Valley HTML5 Users Group is ded­i­cated to ex­ploring HTML5 and its role as part of an overall modern ap­proach to Web UI de­vel­op­ment in­cluding JavaScript and CSS. Not only does HTML5 in­clude many new tags, its adop­tion also in­volves greater at­ten­tion to the DOM and API making JavaScript even more pow­erful. But, one area where the po­tent com­bi­na­tion of HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS has re­ally shined has been in the area of mo­bile Web apps. Read more »

Tags: CSS, HTML, HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery Mobile, meetup, mobile, mobile apps, mobile development, mobile Web apps, presentation, Tiggr

We’re ex­cited to be a sponsor of the Mobile Merger event coming up on September 15th on­line. It’s an in­ten­sive 1-​​day event to bring you com­pletely up to speed on in­cor­po­rating the in­cred­ible promise of mo­bile into busi­nesses now. All without having to travel any­where  – it’s an on­line event!

It will in­clude 36 ses­sions cov­ering all as­pects of mo­bile in busi­ness: mar­keting, ad­ver­tising, de­sign, de­vel­op­ment, and more. Attendees have ac­cess to hours of on­line con­tent (in­cluding some from us) and the ability to in­teract live with speakers and other at­ten­dees. Find out more and then reg­ister. We’ll “see” you there.

Tags: conference, m-commerce, Mcommerce, mobile, mobile apps, mobile commerce, online

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

Last year we at­tended the Mcommerce Summit put on by Mobile Commerce Daily and found it to be a very in­for­ma­tive ex­pe­ri­ence. This years’s event looks like an­other great one. It will be on May 12 in New York City. Here’s the line-​​up of topics: Read more »

Tags: conference, m-commerce, mobile, mobile commerce

At Exadel we have a lot of ex­pe­ri­ence with mo­bile de­vel­op­ment. One thing that comes up in our work in this area is the oc­ca­sional ne­ces­sity to com­mu­ni­cate with ser­vices using SOAP. To do this, we need to gen­erate Objective-​​C source code from a WSDL doc­u­ment. In this ar­ticle, I’ll de­scribe some util­i­ties for this and then how to re­solve some is­sues that come up in using these code gen­er­a­tors. Read more »

Tags: code generation, iOS, iPhone, mobile, mobile apps, Objective-C, SOAP, Sudzc, WSDL, wsdl2objc, WSMakeStubs

Webinar: Mobile Development Choices: Native vs. Web
Thu, Nov 4, 2010 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM PDT

We’ve had a lot of ex­pe­ri­ence at Exadel helping com­pa­nies de­cide how to ap­proach de­vel­op­ment for mo­bile. There are two basic ap­proaches in­volved. In one, you de­velop an app for each type of mo­bile de­vice you want to target. In an­other, you rely on the Web browser in the mo­bile de­vice and set up your ap­pli­ca­tion on your server to work with the generic browser. As you can imagine, there are good and bad things about ei­ther approach.

The pur­pose of this we­binar is to get down fur­ther into the de­tails of how you would make a de­ci­sion like this. And, there’s still time to reg­ister for this webinar.

Tags: development choices, Mcommerce, mobile, mobile apps, webinar

Exadel’s Toni Toy and Brian Silverman are back from ex­hibiting at Internet Retailer’s first Mobile Commerce Forum in Chicago. During the show, Exadel un­veiled its Mobile Solutions Platform from our new Mobile Solutions Division. Now Exadel can offer a com­pre­hen­sive yet com­pletely cus­tomiz­able mo­bile so­lu­tion for any busi­ness. The plat­form is log­i­cally or­ga­nized around mod­ules for dif­ferent as­pects of the mo­bile ex­pe­ri­ence: Read more »

Tags: Android, conference, iPhone, Mcommerce, mobile, mobile apps, mobile commerce

Exadel will be speaking at two con­fer­ences over the next 2 weeks. Max Katz is al­ready in Germany at the Herbstcampus Conference. Next week, he and Alexander Smirnov will both be speakers at JavaOne. Here’s a sum­mary of what they’re up to at the two events: Read more »

Tags: AJAX, JSF, m-commerce, Mcommerce, mobile, mobile apps, mobile commerce, RIA, rich user interface, RichFaces, Web applications

Internet Retailer will be holding it’s first Mobile Commerce Forum on October 12th and 13th in Chicago. Donna Burke and Toni Toy from Exadel will be there in our booth #110. [Update: Brian Silverman will be at­tending from Exadel in­stead of Donna Burke.] They will be avail­able to talk about Exadel mo­bile com­merce so­lu­tions for putting “your store in a pocket” ei­ther through mo­bile en­able­ment of Web sites or mo­bile ap­pli­ca­tion de­vel­op­ment. We hope to see you there!

Tags: e-commerce, Exadel, m-commerce, Mcommerce, mobile, mobile apps, mobile commerce

This is a list of my per­sonal pre­dic­tions for mo­bile com­merce based solely on my re­search on the Internet, con­sumer ex­pe­ri­ence, and my gut feeling.

1. In 10 years, mo­bile will over­come PC advertising.
2. Android will be the most im­por­tant platform.
3. Payments using mo­bile will be common in the US.
4. Mobile will be the new play­ground for hackers.
5. Smartphones will cost less than US$60.
6. Tablets will not take off. Read more »

Tags: advertising, Android, e-commerce, geolocation, iPad, Japan, m-commerce, Mcommerce, mobile, mobile commerce, mobile payments, payments, tablet