Monthly Archives: February, 2013
A Few Of My Favorite Things in BlackBerry 10
With the launch of BlackBerry 10 on January 30th, some of you now have your hands on a shiny new BlackBerry Z10. I am sure you are enjoying the ease of “BlackBerry Hub”, “BlackBerry Flow”, and the deep integration with social networks. One of the great things about being a BlackBerry Developer Evangelist is that […]
BlackBerry 10 NDK – Managing Device Target Updates
In my last blog post I talked about using the update manager for downloading target OS releases. The main intent of these target OS releases is to allow you as a developer to get the necessary target libraries for debugging purposes. Our fantastic BlackBerry 10 software is going out to multiple carriers all over the […]
Integrating the new Foursquare SDK in to your BlackBerry WebWorks Apps
The other day, Kyle from Foursquare announced a couple of new and exciting features for BlackBerry developers to make use of in their apps – Single Sign On and Place Picker cards. This is an absolutely stellar implementation of our Invocation Framework. To compliment his native sample app, I created a BlackBerry 10 WebWorks version. […]
BlackBerry 10 WebWorks – Time To Get Paid
Most people like to be rewarded for hard work. There are of course many ways in which people derive reward. Fame. Adoration. Legions of followers on Twitter. Free cookies. But perhaps the most prevalent and obvious is cold, hard cash. With BlackBerry World, there are a number of ways to get money out of your […]
Defining Your App’s Style with Active Rich Text
Guest post from Erin Rahnenfuehrer. – Ed. Everyone has their own personal style. The way you choose to present yourself is one of the ways you communicate to others. The same holds true for your app. The stylistic choices that you make when designing your app convey a message to the end user. Through colours, […]
BlackBerry 10 Limited Edition and Dev Alpha C Update
…and we’re back! Back from the BlackBerry 10 Launch events. Back from BlackBerry Jam Europe. Back to answer your questions on the Limited Edition and BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha C programs. Here are answers to the top four questions we’re getting asked on Twitter. Q. I applied for a BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha C at […]
BlackBerry 10: Texture Compression and GPUs
So you have written a game and now you want to tweak, optimize and package it for BlackBerry 10? This blog post will cover some details that are important for game developers regarding chipset configurations and cellular radio variants. If you choose to use texture compression in your games, this will help you determine which […]
BlackBerry Jam Sessions Hackathon – Mexico City, Mexico
Guest post from BlackBerry Developer Evangelist Edgar Parada – Ed. Near the end of 2012, the BlackBerry Jam Sessions were held for developers around Latin America. There was plenty of intensity and a lot of knowledge to be absorbed by all of the participants. For these events, we gathered different experts from all over the […]
Touch Anywhere (on the screen) You Want With Hammer.js and BlackBerry 10 WebWorks
With the launch of BlackBerry 10 and all touch devices ready to rock and roll, you may be interested in adding touch or multi-touch gestures in to your BlackBerry WebWorks apps. I came across an amazing JavaScript library called Hammer.js which makes it super easy to incorporate gestures into your application with only a few […]
Over-sharing with Twitter and Facebook Cards
Let’s face it: YOU ARE AWESOME. You’re the most important person in your friends’ and family members’ lives. They’d be completely lost, wandering the streets like zombies, without knowing what you were up to 24/7 on Twitter and Facebook. Luckily for them, sharing content from your BlackBerry WebWorks app just got super easy. While browsing […]
