Tag Archives: webworks
Clearbridge Mobile and the USA Today on BlackBerry 10
I’ve worked very closely with Clearbridge Mobile Inc. – the developers of USA TODAY for BlackBerry 10 and we could not be more pleased with the outcome. This application is a favorite among BlackBerry 10 users and maintains a solid five star rating in BlackBerry World with a range of fantastic reviews: “A beautiful use […]
BlackBerry 10 UI Layout patterns for HTML5 Applications
Full source code with comments is available at: https://github.com/blackberry/BB10-WebWorks-Samples/tree/master/UI-Layouts A typical BlackBerry 10 application consists of a number of full-screen views, containing elements (headers, footers, lists, buttons, etc…) that are stacked to take up available screen estate. This article outlines layout techniques that may be used to create such views in HTML5/WebWorks applications, targeting the […]
UCOSP Undergraduate Capstone Open Source Projects 2013 Midterm Update
Our open source projects with university students from across Canada have been going superbly this term with many excellent contributions to the BlackBerry Open Source community. This is our second post this term, the first one being about the kickoff sprint at Facebook headquarters. First let’s hear what Amritpal has to say about what he’s […]
Prevent Sleep for WebWorks Apps
(Photo credit to Alan L, and his cat) When your content is so riveting that your users can’t take their eyes off the screen, the last thing you want is the screen dimming and breaking that immersion. Thankfully, BlackBerry 10 offers a simple API to keep the screen from dimming, which conveniently handles things like […]
BlackBerry Jam Starter Session – Vancouver and Saskatoon
Momentum for the BlackBerry 10 platform has been explosive since the launch of BlackBerry 10 on January 30th. BlackBerry World currently has over 70,000 apps and games and is growing every day. There hasn’t been a better time to start building for BlackBerry. Wavefront and BlackBerry are teaming up to present hands-on development workshops to support […]
Sublime BlackBerry 10 WebWorks Development
At the risk of broaching a topic that is potentially more volatile than politics, religion, or semi-colons in JavaScript, let’s talk a little bit about development environments for BlackBerry 10 WebWorks. Now, while I’m going to talk about one development environment in particular in this blog post, one of the great things about BlackBerry 10 […]
BlackBerry Developer Relations Pairs Up With Skillsmatter
Guest post from Marysia – Ed. The BlackBerry Developer Relations team has paired up with Skillsmatter to offer training on BlackBerry 10 development. To kick off the partnership, we are running a BlackBerry Jam event on March 7th in London. Our dynamic duo of Developer Evangelists from the UK, Luca Sale and Don Turner, will […]
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 […]
‘App of the Week’ updates
Guest post from Luca Sale – Ed. Thank you to all of you who entered or showed interest for our brand new ‘App of the Week’ contest, the response has been inspiring! We have carefully reviewed the submissions and we were really pleased the outstanding quality of the applications! The winning application, is “Trola” from […]
