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Bay Area Mobile Meetup: Prototyping And Building Mobile Apps In The Cloud With Tiggr

On Thursday, January 5, 2012 I will be presenting at Bay Area Mobile:

Prototyping and building mobile apps in the cloud

When: Thursday, January 5, 2012, 6:30 PM
Where: Mountain View, CA

In this cool session you will learn how to build HTML5 and native apps using Tiggr. Tiggr is a cloud-based mobile apps builder that uses HTML5, jQuery Mobile, REST, and PhoneGap to build apps. A real mobile app will be prototyped and built during the session, which attendees will be able to run and test on their own devices.

To sign up and more info: http://www.meetup.com/BayAreaMobile/events/40927112/.

Two other speakers will be presenting as well. Sally Cox from Adobe will be showing Adobe Proto, and Jonathan Smiley from ZURB will be talking about: Why (and How) to Rapidly Prototype for Multiple Devices.

From Idea to Android Market in 40 Minutes: Mobile App With jQuery Mobile, HTML5, REST, and PhoneGap [Webinar]

When: November 16, Wednesday, 11am US Pacific Time
Register: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/466425672

One of the great things about Tiggr Mobile Apps Builder is its support for end-to-end development, going all the way from an idea in one person’s mind to an app running in thousands of phones. In this webinar, we’ll show you exactly how it’s done (and how easy it is) by walking you through a hands-on example. The focus will be on exporting options for apps. In this case, we’ll export an Android binary (.apk) and publish to the Android Market. Of course, we’ll quickly build an app first, so you can learn or refresh your memory about how to build the UI with jQuery Mobile, connect to REST services, and test the app.

Tiggr Mobile Apps Builder at AnDevCon II and Mountain View JavaScript Meetup

We just returned from app world conference in New York which was a great success. Next week we are heading to 2 more great events: AnDevCon conference and Mountain View JavaScript Meetup.

AnDevCon

Tiggr Mobile Apps Builder (Exadel) is going to be at AnDevCon II (The Android Developer Conference) in San Francisco Bay Area, November 6-9. Stop by our booth and learn how to build Android apps ready for the Android Market using cloud services, all in about 5 minutes. It’s really awesome, I promise.

Mountain View JavaScript Meetup Group

Building apps with Tiggr, A Cloud Service for Building Mobile Apps

Wednesday, November 9, 2011, 7:00 PM

In this cool session you will learn how to build HTML5 and native apps using Tiggr. Tiggr is a cloud-based mobile apps builder that uses HTML5, jQuery Mobile, REST, and PhoneGap to build apps. A real mobile app will be built during the session, which attendees will be able to run and test on their own devices.

Sign up to attend this Meetup.

A Cloud Service To Build HTML5 And Native Mobile Apps

This article originally appeared on TheServerSide.com: http://www.theserverside.com/opinion/A-cloud-service-to-build-mobile-apps.

I’m sure you’ve heard about platform-as-a-service (PaaS) or cloud-based services like Google Apps Engine, CloudBees, Heruko, Engine Yard, and Cloud Foundry. All are excellent platforms that ease the process of managing, maintaining, and administering the platform on which an application you develop runs. Most tend to be focused on the hosting and managing side of the finished application. But what about a cloud-based service that enables you to build an app, and specifically a mobile app? Well, such a service already exists. The cloud-based service is called Tiggr Mobile Apps Builder.

What is Tiggr?

Tiggr is a cloud-based mobile app builder. It enables you to build both mobile Web and native apps. To get a native app, Tiggr uses the PhoneGap library. The beauty in Tiggr Mobile Apps Builder is that there is nothing to download, nothing to install, and nothing to configure or set up. Creating a new mobile app in Tiggr takes relatively little time compared to traditional methods. Tiggr saves developers time when configuring projects with various libraries.

Building a Mobile UI with jQuery Mobile

Tiggr uses jQuery Mobile components – cross-platform and cross-device mobile components. As you can see from the screen shot, the mobile palette on the left holds all the components and you simply drag and drop them into the phone.

You can rearrange components or set properties. A powerful Grid component is available to simplify building apps with complex layouts. An app can have any number of screens, of course.

Adding HTML events and actions

In Tiggr, you build real mobile apps. To make it possible to build real mobile apps we need to be able to define HTML events such as click and value change and then add an action to be invoked for the event. The action can be navigating to another screen, opening a pop-up, setting a JavaScript variable, or invoking a custom JavaScript.
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Learn How To Build Android Apps Using Cloud Service At AnDevCon II, Nov 6-9

Tiggr Mobile Apps Builder (Exadel) is going to be at AnDevCon II in San Francisco Bay Area, November 6-9. Stop by our booth and learn how to build Android apps ready for the Android Market using cloud services, all in about 5 minutes. It’s really awesome, I promise. To get a peek, watch this video:

Learn How To Build Mobile Apps Using Cloud Services at appsworld, New York

appsworld New York

If you are at appsworld conference in New York, Nov 1-2, you will be able to see the most awesome way to build mobile apps using cloud-based mobile apps builder, Tiggr.

Learn How To Build Mobile Apps Using Cloud Services
November 1, at 13:00
In this cool session you will learn how to build HTML5 and native apps
using Tiggr. Tiggr is a cloud-based mobile apps builder. A real mobile
app will be built during the session, which attendees will be able to
run and test on their own devices.

Tiggr (Exadel) is also exhibiting so stop by our table, say hello and see how to build a mobile app in about 5 minutes.

Tiggr Lets You Create Mobile Apps in Minutes [Video]

My interview with David Spark during Mobilize conference in San Francisco, Sept 26-27, 2011.

Aren’t you glad you don’t have to program in assembly code?

Wouldn’t it be great if you didn’t have to do any programming at all?

At the GigaOM Mobilize conference in San Francisco I saw a demo of Tiggr, a Web-based mobile app builder for both Web-based and native mobile apps, created by Exadel.

Exadel Senior Systems Engineer Max Katz walked me through the five-step process of creating a mobile app. In the demo he showed me, he created a Twitter search app.

  1. Prototype and build the UI with jQuery mobile components. For example, drag and drop the buttons and the windows with all the content into the phone’s display.
  2. Define the service and connect the UI to the Twitter REST API.
  3. Put the app all together with events and actions. For example, when a certain button is clicked you want to invoke a specific service.
  4. Test the app at any stage within the browser or phone.
  5. Export the app as either source code and continue working outside. Or if you’re finished you can retrieve the binary for Android and iOS and upload it to the respective app market.
    Pretty impressive.

This video is the sped up version, but I saw him build the app in just five minutes.

Originally appeared on http://news.dice.com/2011/10/14/mobile-apps-tiggr/

Building BlackBerry Mobile Apps With Tiggr and PhoneGap Build

One of the most important features in Tiggr is being able to export the app as HTML5 mobile app, Android app or iOS native app. All export features are show by clicking the big Export button:

As you noticed, there is currently no BlackBerry option. But, it turns out it’s pretty easy to get a BlackBerry native app.

Any app in Tiggr, be it for Android, iOS or BlackBerry is built first with jQuery Mobile component, HTML5, JavaScript and CSS. Then, the app is packaged as native with PhoneGap. For BlackBerry, simply export the app as HTML/CS/JS, and to build a native we are going to use PhoneGap Build.

Here are the steps:

  1. Build an app in Tiggr (try getting started guides) and export it as HTML/CSS/JS
  2. Sign up for PhoneGap Builder. A free account is available
  3. Click to create a new app inside PhoneGap Builder.
  4. Enter app name
  5. Select upload an archive or index.html file option and point to the zip file you exported from Tiggr
  6. Click Create to build the app
  7. That’s it. You may have to wait a few seconds before the build completes.

Once the build is complete, you will should see this: