Twiggy Beta Released
By Ryan
25 March 2009 | Category: Code
As you know, we've been working on building a mobile widget this week, called Twiggy. She's coming along very well - so well in fact, that we're ready to release a beta. Feel free to download it now. Love to hear your feedback!
How to use the beta
You can use the Twiggy beta in two ways:
1. Open the .wget file with Opera – it will automatically install the widget.
2. Go to the download link in your mobile browser. Your mobile device will need to be widget enabled (S60 Nokia phones and others)
One of the reasons we’ve been able to build Twiggy so quickly (roughly two days) is because jQuery works so well with the Web Run Time on the phone. There is a jQuery plugin for the Twitter Search API, so we simply used that. Bam. Here are the links for the jQuery plugin:
1. Complete info on the plugin
2. GitHub repository
Build a widget, win £20,000
If you’d like to try to build a mobile widget, you should enter it into the Betavine £20,000 competition. There’s no strings attached to the money, so it’s a sweet opportunity. I’m one of the judges, so I’m looking forward to seeing the entries.
Here are three great resources to learn how to build mobile widgets:
1. Betavine
2. Widget basics
3. Creating your first widget
We recorded a live video this morning and explained the tech a bit more:
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