Maximum gain. Minimum pain.
Build world-class mobile services in record time with the Yahoo! Blueprint platform—offering easy-to-use development tools, a powerful feature set, and beautiful UI controls—all within an open environment that runs across thousands of devices. Read the Blueprint Overview.
What you want in a development platform.
Introducing Blueprint 1.0, Yahoo!’s standards-based development platform that incorporates cutting edge features, including location-based services, maps, SSL and tables. With the SDK, you’ll get an easy-to-follow, step-by-step process, allowing you to create, test and build more functionality into your code. Download SDK.
Run services across multiple environments.
Now, you can easily create mobile websites, applications and Yahoo! Go™ widgets from the same code to tap the full potential of major mobile runtime environments—including HTML/xHTML browsers, Java®, Window Mobile® and Symbian®. Learn more.
Blueprint services on the iPhone.
Yahoo! has created the best Blueprint experience on the iPhone™ using native iPhone controls, frameworks, and the powerful iPhone SDK. We are using it internally to build all our iPhone applications like oneConnect™. We are in discussions to enable a broader audience of developers to benefit from this amazing technology.
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Developer Blog Highlights
November 19, 2008
Today we launched an update of the Blueprint SDK with additions and changes that will make development easier–and help you prepare for the rollout of more extensions next year. 1. Test your Blueprint with ease Blueprint lets you test your application in a desktop browser. Instead of going to Yahoo!’s mobile homepage and finding a list of [more...]
November 14, 2008
Develop Your Own Mobile Weather Application - A Blueprint Tutorial
An extensive tutorial on Blueprint has been published on the IBM developerWorks site. The author, C. Enrique Ortiz, explains how to develop a weather Widget for Yahoo! Go 3.0 using the Blueprint XML markup and infrastructure, PHP for server integration, and Yahoo! Web services. The tutorial shows how to write the same Widget in two [more...]
November 5, 2008
Tables may not be the most exciting or difficult task when you consider mobile development. However, displaying and designing tables for smaller screens can be quite the challenge. The Blueprint language addresses these difficulties through selective truncation, the combining of columns, and intelligent formatting. These features are controlled by attributes of the table element and [more...]
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