Category Archives: How-to
Maps. They Don’t Love You Like I Love You.
Forget everything you know about working with maps and BlackBerry WebWorks. Mapping just got real, real easy! We heard you ask for an easy way to integrate mapping services with your BlackBerry WebWorks applications, and today I’m happy to announce that on BlackBerry 10, the process has become much simpler. We’ve put together a straight-forward sample […]
BlackBerry Tech Center Open Days in December
Here’s a guest post from Marysia – Ed. Calling all UK devs! Want to develop an app for BlackBerry 10? Have a BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha testing device, but hit a few stumbling blocks and need some help to just get it moving again? Got an Android, iOS or Qt app that you want to […]
Augmenting Reality With BlackBerry 10 and Wikitude SDK
Augmented Reality is a way to enhance what you see around you with the use of your mobile phone’s camera, sensors, and location services. If done right, applications of this technology can take the experience of the consumer to an entirely new level. Implementing this technology can be exciting and challenging at the same time. […]
Writing Qt apps for the BlackBerry 10 platform
Guest post from Eun-Kyung Choi and Kizito Kasengulu – Ed. Cascades™ and Qt are two major frameworks available on the BlackBerry® 10 platform. Qt on BlackBerry 10 provides a complete set of standard Qt 4.8 APIs with the exception of the QtWebKit module. BlackBerry 10 provides a selected set of APIs from the QtMobility project […]
How to Integrate Your BlackBerry WebWorks Application with BBM
Welcome to part 3 of my series of blog posts discussing the BlackBerry® Messenger (BBM™) Social Platform. My previous blog post, Integrate with BBM and Watch Your Application Go Viral, covered the features of the BlackBerry Messenger Social Platform (BBM SP) and how you can use them to promote your application. If you haven’t read […]
Porting Qt Applications to BlackBerry 10 is Easier than Ever!
Guest post from Eun-Kyung and Kizito – Ed. Qt developers and BlackBerry® 10 developers often ask the following questions: What is the relationship between Cascades™ and Qt, and how do they interact with each other? Cascades and Qt frameworks are two major frameworks available in BlackBerry 10 application development. From a high-level architectural point of […]
PeaksAndValleys: Limitless Landscape
PeaksAndValleys is a sample WebGL application developed for the BlackBerry® platform. It is primarily a learning resource for developers implementing pure WebGL along with additional HTML5 gaming concepts. It has also been open-sourced on Github because, well, we love open source. To learn more about WebGL and HTML5 gaming, be sure to join our webinar […]
[Webcast] HTML5 Gaming with BlackBerry 10
The gap between the desktop and mobile web is rapidly shrinking as performance and functionality are on a path towards convergence. An area that has been (and will continue to be) heavily impacted by these advancements is the gaming space. I am pleased to be presenting an upcoming webcast on the current state of HTML5 […]
How to Integrate Your Native Application with BBM
My previous blog post Integrate with BBM and Watch Your Application Go Viral covered the features of the BlackBerry® Messenger Social Platform (BBM™ SP) and how you can use them to promote your application. If you haven’t read it yet, I recommend giving it a look. In this next blog post, we’ll cover the technical […]
