BLUEPRINT - Yahoo! Mobile Widgets

Build a world-class mobile widget with Blueprint—a platform that includes a standards-based language, easy-to-use toolkit with access to innovative features and a seamless path to hundreds of devices.

• Write once: Run it on hundreds of devices.
• Open: Multiple platforms and numerous operating systems.
• Truly mobile: Build location based services into your widget.
• Yahoo!-sized distribution: Seamless integration and distribution with Yahoo! Go 3.0 and Yahoo!'s mobile homepage.

Blueprint makes it easy for you to maximize your mobile reach with minimum development effort. You write your widget code once and Blueprint will make sure your widget looks good across hundreds of different devices, from a simple xHTML phone to the iPhone.

How Do I Get Started?

1. Download the Blueprint SDK
2. Code and Test your widget in your PC browser or directly on a phone
3. Publish your widget to start sharing it with the world!

Mobile Development on Blueprint

Overview

Blueprint is Yahoo!’s language for mobile widget development. It’s based on a versatile, XML syntax and open environment, allowing developers to maximize their reach and build widgets that work across hundreds of mobile devices. With Blueprint, developers can create a widget that looks brilliant on an iPhone and on Blackberry, and also works in an XHTML browser.

Blueprint allows you to take full advantage of the same programming environment used to create the mobile services available on the Yahoo! home page. Developers can leverage the expertise that was used to create Yahoo! mobile services that run today, on almost any mobile device.

Documentation and Resources

• Download the SDK
• Read the Mobile Developers Blog
• Join the Mobile Developers Discussion Group
• Read the FAQs

Terms of Use

Use of the Yahoo! Mobile Blueprint SDK is governed by the Yahoo! Mobile Widget Developer Terms of Use.