BlackBerry Payment Services: Return of the Sandbox
By Sandbox.png: DaniDF1995 derivative work: Gregor Shapiro (Sandbox.png) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons If you are a developing for BlackBerry 10 and like the idea of making money, then you have likely implemented – or at least taken a look at – the BlackBerry Payment Service. It provides integration directly with BlackBerry World to allow […]
Urban Airship and BlackBerry 10
If you have ever implemented Push across multiple platforms, then you have no doubt heard of Urban Airship, which offers a service to centralize and manage pushes to all devices. This greatly simplifies the process of managing and maintaining data delivery to a single application across a wide array of mobile environments. Urban Airship officially […]
Changes to Permissions Required for Push
By RRZEicons (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 )], via Wikimedia Commons With Beta 4 of the BlackBerry 10 developer tools on the horizon, there is one important change that anyone using Push should be made aware of. As of the next software update to the BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha devices, Push will stop working unless […]
Console Logging on the BlackBerry 10 Native SDK Beta 3
By Tehdog (Own work) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons (Mute_Icon.svg, Speaker Icon.svg) Some of you may have noticed that the Beta 3 release of the BlackBerry® 10 Native SDK got a bit quieter in the console when creating Cascades™ applications. As of Qt 4.8.3, all output that used to code to the console (qDebug(), qWarning(), qCritical() […]
Let’s Talk About Push
As you may know, Push is now available to almost all BlackBerry® 10 development approaches: Cascades™ Framework, BlackBerry® WebWorks™, Adobe® AIR® and Android™*. That said, I thought it would be a good idea to provide a high-level overview of the entire Push process which is shared across all platforms. (*Support for Push to Android Runtime […]
Qt and Cascades Training in October
KDAB, a company with tons of experience providing Qt consultation services and delivering Qt training, has created a brand new course for Cascades™ application development: Programming with Qt and Cascades for BlackBerry® 10. This is an intense five-day workshop in which Qt experts from KDAB will teach you how to develop apps using Cascades and […]
Taking the Cascades Framework Under the Knife: 9-Slicing
The Cascades™ application framework has many features that allow for the creation of resolution-independent user interfaces. One feature which is extremely useful in both minimizing the size and number of image assets needed to be bundled in your application is 9-slicing. This functionality is primarily used for background and border images and allows the same […]
Cascades, Cascades, Cascades. Webcasts, webcasts, webcasts.
It has been just over one month since we announced the first of a series of webcasts dedicated to creating applications using the astonishing Cascades™ UI framework for BlackBerry® 10. The first webcast focused on the Cascades framework at a high level; how it works, what it can do, and what makes it a fantastic development […]
More Cascades Webcast Sessions!
A second Cascades webcast session will be taking place on Tuesday June 26th.
