We are happy to announce our first official version of Blueprint. It’s now out of beta and available in version 1.0. We have streamlined the language as well as extended it by adding exciting new features. Here’s a quick rundown on four of the most exciting new features that will help you to write compelling mobile widgets:

Location awareness
With Blueprint 1.0 you can use the location chooser to prompt the user to enter their location. If your widget runs in the Yahoo! Go 3.0 client environment on a phone that supports either GPS or cell ID location, the user can send their location to you without entering it manually in the phone. As a developer you have only to specify the in your widget and the Blueprint platform will pass the location to you.

Maps
The new map feature makes it easy for you to display one or more POIs on a mobile map without building the whole map infrastructure from scratch. On some devices, an interactive map is inlined where the control occurs. On other devices, the control appears as a static image that links to a full-screen interactive map. Each POI is represented by a clickable icon that opens a pop-up containing descriptive text and an image. Want to specify a certain zoom level on your map? No problem. Show traffic information? Absolutely! Show your map in satellite or hybrid map view containing street information? Go for it! We wanna see cool mobile widgets with maps-a-go-go.

Driving Directions
Help mobile users find their way. The show-driving-directions feature provides an interactive map for specified origin and destination.

Table support
Organizing and displaying structured data on a small screen is a challenge. For example, if you want to display sports scores, time tables, or financial overviews such as stock quotes, you will need to work with tables. The new Blueprint 1.0 table support gives you flexibility to display content in a table on a mobile in a smart way.

If you wanna hear more, don’t worry. Each of these new features will be discussed more in detail in the next few days in separate blog posts.

For now please go ahead and download the new SDK, read the documentation and look through the new sample widgets.

If you already have developed a widget on Blueprint we encourage you to read the release notes that cover that changes that have been made during the beta phase till this official first release now.

Please make sure that if you already have developed a widget and you like to update it with one of the features mentioned above to re-submit it using the “Submit Upgrade” link in your Manage Widgets page.

We can’t wait to see all your new widgets showcasing the new features of Blueprint 1.0!

Your Yahoo! Blueprint Team