Category Archives: Web Development
You Just Can’t Port an App to BlackBerry 10 in 36 hours!…or Can You?
I’ve heard this many times. It just can’t be done, they say. Porting an application, a “real” application to a new and unfamiliar platform takes at least 3 to 6 months, numerous developers, designers, lots of QA testing, diligent software engineering practices, et cetera. This makes a lot of sense, right? It’s been the conventional […]
UCOSP Kickoff Sprint at Facebook
It’s been a few weeks since I met the BlackBerry Team for this term’s UCOSP program, but between the BlackBerry 10 Launch and the excitement around BlackBerry Jam Europe, it’s been a busy time on the Inside BlackBerry Developer Blog. Now that you’ve had a chance to see all the cool things that BlackBerry 10 […]
Down the Rabbit Hole: Extensions for BlackBerry WebWorks
In the interest of full disclosure, I admit that the BlackBerry 10 WebWorks extensions scared me a little when I first looked at them. It’s been a long time since I really wrote C++ code. We won’t dwell on how long it’s been, but let’s say it’s been long enough. And, when I looked at […]
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 […]
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 […]
Application Security Part II: What Should App Developers Do?
In my previous blog post on this topic, “Application Security Part I: Whose Responsibility is it?”, I explored the responsibility of security in the mobile app ecosystem. In this post, let’s take a little deeper look at the problem of security and code safety from a mobile app developer’s point of view and explore what […]
Sencha Touch Support for BlackBerry 10!
We’ve been working the last few months with the team at Sencha to bring the support for BlackBerry 10 out of beta and ready to be used by developers. We’re glad to announce with Sencha that the wait is over! Performance and a full BlackBerry 10 theme are here for BlackBerry 10. Now, you can […]
