Blueprint. Your easy way to mobile.

Yahoo! Blueprint is a technology for creating mobile web sites for many different types of mobile phones. Use the technology that powers our products in your own sites—all you need is a web server and some simple XML.

Your site on almost every phone

Develop using Blueprint XML and host just like a regular website. We take care of making it look great on thousands of devices. Read the “QuickStart Guide”

m.mycompany.com

We give you a URL for development but with Blueprint you can keep your own domain name by using straightforward DNS CNAMEs. Read the “Deployment Guide”

Real-time Video Encoding

Lots of mobile devices support video - each in it’s own way! To ease the pain we now transcode your video in to 40+ different formats in real-time. Read about the play-video action in Blueprint

Location and Maps

Create location based services more easily by taking advantage of our geo-coding, cell database and map controls. The power of the Yahoo! maps in your mobile application! Read more about location

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Developer Blog Highlights

October 14, 2009

Header Magic: Returning device specific content

The great thing about Yahoo! Blueprint is that mobile web sites built on this platform will work on almost any mobile browser. Right now, the platform supports over 3500 devices, and this number is growing daily. But even though Blueprint makes mobile web development so easy–there is only one code to write to cover all of more...

September 15, 2009

Meet Yahoo! Blueprint in London

One of the most interesting mobile developer events in Europe is just around the corner: Over The Air takes place from September 25-26 in London’s Imperial College. The event is expected to welcome about 400 mobile developers and it’s free to attend. Our Yahoo! Blueprint experts are there for you to answer your questions and to more...

August 13, 2009

Give your site an icon, not a mini-screenshot

If you go to m.yahoo.com and bookmark it onto your iPhone, what do you see? That’s right! A nice, wonderfully purple Y! bang icon. That’s because iPhone’s Safari browser allows mobile site developers to specify an icon to be put on an iPhone’s home screen when a user bookmarks the site. If this icon is more...

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