Yahoo! Blueprint™, the mobile platform

The best way to create mobile Internet services

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

September 24, 2008

Winners Made with Blueprint at Taiwan Open Hack Day

Yahoo!’s Open Hack Day in Taiwan is over and was full of energy from the first to the last minute. 40 teams participated, each with up to 6 people, from all over Taiwan. The event was held in a youth centre in Taipei on 20/21 September 2008. Image by myhsu As at the Hack Day [more...]

September 17, 2008

Yahoo! Buzz on Blueprint

Yahoo! Buzz is giving mobile users a new option to find out what’s hot on Yahoo! Buzz while they’re out and about with a new Yahoo! Go widget developed using Blueprint, Yahoo!’s mobile development platform. The widget can be found in the “Yahoo!” or “News & Info” section of the Yahoo! Go Gallery Widget or [more...]

September 10, 2008

Introducing: Yahoo! Blueprint Runtimes

We’re happy to announce working previews of several exciting new enhancements to our development platform: new Yahoo! Blueprint runtimes that let you create mobile websites, as well as standalone mobile applications for a wide range of devices. Let’s have a look at these new runtimes: Yahoo! Blueprint Runtime for Mobile Sites Use to build rich mobile websites that: - [more...]

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