Blog - Tag: testing

Are you developing a cool new mobile app? As a developer, you probably know how important it is to make sure that your app (native Android or widget) works properly and displays correctly not only in a simulator environment but also on real mobile handsets.

Well, the best news is that you can do this now via the “The Vodafone Handset Cloud” service. This service enables you to test your apps on REAL mobile handsets working in the Vodafone networks in Germany and in Italy.

Many current handsets are available, including the following that have just been added to the ...

As some of you may know, Vodafone offers you 100% free access to the Vodafone Private Handset Cloud. This innovative service, powered by Perfecto Mobile's™ mobile application testing solutions, allows you to test your widgets, applications & content on REAL live Vodafone devices. The Vodafone Private Handset Cloud significantly evolved during recent months, to include new handsets and many exciting features that can really make life a whole lot easier for all you developers out there. The Vodafone Handset Cloud lets you test and monitor your apps on multiple devices, in various geographies and thus significantly shorten your application's ...

Join the Vodafone & JIL Developer team for a FREE two day event of training and hands-on development fun!

Whether you're an existing widget developer or completely new, we'll have sessions that'll guide you through the steps of development, testing and publication to market of your widgets through Vodafone and JIL

Get up to speed and ready for the event at developer.vodafone.com and JIL.org

Location (Google maps link ) -

HOTEL NH ALCALA 4*
Calle de Alcalá, 66
28009 Madrid

How do I sign up? - Click here to register

Event agenda -

Monday 12th July

Develop [12pm – 2pm ...

Tomorrow sees the Vodafone Developer Team head out to Mobile 2.0 Europe in Barcelona. The event is coined as “a one-day event for developers exploring the future of mobile” and includes 16 different workshop sessions, 14 sessions on the app economy with panels and talks from thought leaders, and rounding off the event is the App Circus where 10 finalists pitch their app for fame.

Our developer team will be around all day at the event to chat to you about developing for Vodafone, you'll also be able to catch some of the team presenting at the following ...

Download and install the Vodafone Apps Manager software for Android and Symbian S60 to test widgets on your phone.

We're pleased to announce the release of version 2.7 of the Vodafone Widget SDK. Highlights of this release include:

• Create and import JIL 1.2 format widgets
• Convert between Opera and JIL 1.2 format widgets
• Emulate JIL 1.2 format widgets
• Test your widgets in Android device configurations
• Deploy widgets directly to Android phones via USB

Adding support for the JIL 1.2 format makes it easier to package widgets that are ready to upload on JIL.org for distribution to Vodafone 360 customers across Europe. The conversion feature should be particularly useful since the widget run-times ...

Looking to make your widget available to Vodafone customers with Android phones? Below are a few key questions, with answers, that you need to ask yourself before you get started:

Is your widget optimized for finger touch interaction?

• All Android phones Vodafone will offer this year have touch screens
• Some also have 5-way navigation hardware

Does your widget support correct screen sizes?

• Suggest following fluid layout principles to design UI that scales across many resolutions, pixel densities - details here
• Target resolutions for Android phones:
  • Low: 240x320 (Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 mini, Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 mini pro)
  • Medium: 320x480 (HTC ...

Are you a mobile widget developer or tester looking for new and better ways to test and debug your mobile widgets?  Have you been struggling with testing on multiple devices and across multiple platforms?

Introducing the Ripple Emulator (Beta version)

tinyHippos Inc. has just released the Beta version of The Ripple Emulator and is offering it for FREE during the Beta period.

Ripple is a cross platform emulator, currently supporting the JIL 1.2 API and Opera Widget platforms as well as Mobile Websites. Ripple has been built by developers for developers, therefore; providing a highly customizable environment. You can ...

Don’t worry if you missed the last couple of 'Testing on the Vodafone 360 Handset Cloud (Perfecto Mobile)' webinars. We’ve scheduled two more, details below,

April 1^st at 1 pm GMT - click here to register

April 7^th at 12pm GMT - click here to register

Remember the Perfect Mobile service enables you to test your widgets on REAL mobile handsets working in the Vodafone networks in Germany and in Italy. And as a Vodafone 360 widget developer you can use this service FREE OF CHARGE.

Reminder to register now for the "Testing on the Vodafone 360 Handset Cloud" webinar, run by Perfecto Mobile. The webinar runs on Tuesday 16th March at 11am (GMT), you can register here http://bit.ly/coQh3B