Category Archives: Tips and Tricks
Kicking The Tires of the BlackBerry 10 SDK Adobe AIR Beta 3 SDK
We have our team assembled here in Mississauga, Ontario ready to start experiencing what it is to be an AIR developer for BlackBerry® 10. We will be wearing the hats of a developer that uses Flash Builder, one that uses Powerflasher FDT, and one that has a game already built using Flash Professional and would […]
Armed and Ready with the Dojo Toolkit
Hi fellow BlackBerry® devs! It’s Michelle here from the BlackBerry Developer Relations team with a new addition to our supported JavaScript frameworks. To follow up with the Dojo 1.8 release, it gives me great pleasure to announce BlackBerry’s Guide to Working with the Dojo Toolkit. If you haven’t heard of Dojo before, now’s your […]
Simulator News: BlackBerry Runtime for Android Apps gets Hardware Graphics Acceleration
The BlackBerry® Runtime for Android apps has used its own software implementation of OpenGL. Release 10.0.6 of the BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha Simulator and beta release 2.1.0 of the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ Simulator now support hardware accelerated graphics. One of the problems with implementing hardware acceleration on the Android runtime is that the graphics driver assumes it’s running […]
Would you like a 1130% Performance Increase for your BlackBerry 10 Simulator?
VMWare takes advantage of a seldom used but immensely impressive technology, virtualization. Virtual machines set up a sandbox that to the guest operating system seems like a perfectly normal piece of hardware. Normally, abstracting a second system from the host OS takes a fair amount of horsepower. Hardware vendors have met this challenge by supporting, […]
Using bbUI.js Scroll-Panel
A tutorial on how to use the new Scroll-Panel feature in bbUI.js 0.9.3.
For Enterprise App Developers: BlackBerry MDS Connection Service Helps Make Connectivity a Simple Task
Originally posted on the Inside BlackBerry For Business Blog by Gregg O As someone who has been engaged with our enterprise customers for the past 11 years, I’ve had the luxury of seeing so many well-built applications really change the way in which a business operates. These range from simple tasks like allowing an internal […]
Font Changes for BlackBerry 10
A comprehensive list of font changes and replacements for BlackBerry 10.
QML/Cascades tip of the day – Property Aliases
This week’s QML/Cascades tip focuses on creating property aliases and why they’ll be your friend when creating custom components in QML.
Control Simulator Zoom Level, GPS and More Using the Simulator Controller
The BlackBerry PlayBook tablet simulator v2.1 beta includes a new tool to help you work with the simulator: the Simulator Controller.
QML/Cascades tip of the day – Namespaces
Today’s tip is about namespaces in QML and how they can be utilized to avoid name clashes.
