Wednesday and Thursday this week the Tiggzi team will be at AnDevCon conference in San Francisco. Stop by our stand and learn how to build Android apps, connected to any REST API using Tiggzi app builder. What’s really nice is that you can build an app in Tiggzi, export the Android binary, and instantly publish it to Google Play Store.
This past weekend Oleksandr (Sasha) Piskun, chief mobile architect behind Tiggzi and myself attended the AT&T Mobile Hackathon at the AT&T Foundry in Palo Alto. The hackathon was also sponsored by Facebook. A big thank you to Alex Donn, Ben Nelson and other AT&T team members for putting this awesome event together and including us in it.
If you are not familiar with a hackathon format, it goes like this. The event usually starts Friday evening with what’s called “developer dating” or simply networking. After about an hour, event sponsors and tool providers make a 5-10 minute presentation on their API’s and tools. After that the attendees get a few minutes to pitch their app ideas. Once all the presentations are done, it’s time to form teams and start building the apps. Team forming or app building goes until about midnight. The next day the event restarts at about 10am, accompanied by breakfast and the teams start building and hacking. This goes until about 7pm at which point all development stops and teams get about 3 minutes to present their apps. Once everyone presented, the judges get together and decide on the winners.
This was our fourth hackathon after attending hackathons in San Diego and Seattle (sponsored by AT&T) and one in San Francisco sponsored by Microsoft. The Palo Alto one was the biggest hackathon so far. This is probably because it was in the heart of Silicon Valley and sponsored by Facebook.
We arrived at AT&T Foundry around 6pm on Friday, and the place was already pretty busy. AT&T Foundry is a great place for a hackathon, large area, large tables. The entire place was divided into small sections (but still open) which are perfect for teams working together.
Alex Donn started the event around 7:30pm introducing himself, his team, AT&T and all the partners. He always shows this picture which shows all the various tools that attendees can use during the hackathon:
I’ll be speaking at DC jQuery Users Group this Thursday, May 10. I’ll be showing Tiggzi – the cloud-based jQuery Mobile and PhoneGap app builder, and how fast and easy it is to build jQuery Mobile apps connected to any REST API.
This weekend (May 4-5) we are going to be at the ATT Mobile Hackathon in Palo Alto. Tiggzi Mobile App Builder is an excellent tool for hackathons as it allows to build HTML5 and PhoneGap apps very quickly (and you don’t have to be a super developer). Everyone who attends the hackathon and wants to try Tiggzi will get 2 months Pro plan free. Additional prices will be given to winning teams.
Just in time for the hackathon, we published a tutorial on how to connect to Facebook.
See you there.
WAC (the Wholesale Applications Community) offers a single cross-operator payment API across 9 operators today with plans to extend to all 58 member operators. Mobile carrier enabled in-app billing promises better conversion for app developers since there is no reason to enter usernames and passwords.
Do you want to see how to use in-app carrier billing in developing a mobile app? Come join us as Exadel and WAC, in conjunction with Deutsche Telekom’s Developer Garden, present a hands-on interactive webinar in which we will demonstrate how to build an app with Tiggzi Mobile App Builder and WAC’s in-app billing API. We’ll show everything from the WAC sign-up process to the creation and testing of a complete functioning app.
Webinar organizers:
Tiggzi/Exadel (Twitter, Facebook)
WAC (Twitter, Facebook)
Deutsche Telekom’s Developer Garden (Twitter, Facebook)
When: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM PDT
Register: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/971108977
One of the really nice features we released in Tiggzi Mobile App Builder in April is the option to get iOS binary file for your app (similar to PhoneGap Build).
Now you can create your mobile app in Tiggzi and instantly build the iOS binary file (or Android).
As we use the standard iOS build process, you will still need to provide your Apple developer information (nothing we can do about that, more information here on how to get it). The information is then set in project profile:
Yesterday we attended mobile hackathon sponsored by Microsoft and PhoneGap. The goal was to build a PhoneGap app and install in on Windows Phone. We used Tiggzi App Builder, PhoneGap Build and very quickly installed an app on Windows Phone. Thanks to @jccim for inviting us and giving us a brand new Windows Phone for testing.
Build an HTML5/jQuery Mobile app in Tiggzi Mobile App Builder:
Export the app as HTML/JavaScript/CSS:
We will be adding Windows Phone support to Tiggzi in May (first source code export, followed by binary build).
Upload the app to PhoneGap Build, download the Windows Phone version:
You are done!
We just published a new hands-on tutorial on creating HTML5/jQuery Mobile app (can also be exported as PhoneGap app) using StackMob backend in Tiggzi app builder.
Sign up for Tiggzi Free plan today and build this mobile app.
The final app is shown below. On the first page we get a list messages we retrieved from StackMob back-end. You can also add a new message:
Click on a message takes you to second page where a message can be deleted:
This is how the first page looks in Tiggzi:
