Developing Cross-Platform UIs for the Enterprise (Part 2): Lessons Learned...
In my previous blog post, “Introducing the PantherUI Carousel”, I wrote about how you can use virtual space to create responsive apps for different platforms and screen sizes. So for this post, I...
View ArticleWebWorks Gamepad API thanks to our friend Peardox
I’m very pleased to announce the release of a Gamepad API for WebWorks applications. Not only is this a cool API that will open up new capabilities for WebWorks apps and games, but it was done in...
View ArticleNot only can Sample Projects save time…they can save lives. Open source to...
Below is a post from Richard Balsewich (@OnlineODB) If you have ever participated or competed in a hackathon, then you already know how much time you have to build something “real”… Not enough! So how...
View ArticleBuilding Bridges for Enterprise Mobility with NodeJS
When mobilizing a company, there will be challenges to gain access to platforms, data and processes, that are siloed of in monolithic stacks and session based transports. With the connectivity and...
View ArticleGoogle Analytics in WebWorks
Our first ever summer term with the Canadian University program called UCOSP, has just finished. This is the program where upper year university students contribute to open source projects for a term...
View ArticleWrapup: Fall 2014 UCOSP Sprint
The BlackBerry team at work Back in mid-September we met in Toronto again at Mozilla’s very nice office, to kick off a new term of UCOSP. With six students from four universities and one volunteer from...
View ArticleFacebook Connect for WebWorks
Our third UCOSP project this summer was the Facebook Connect plugin. Like our other project, the Google Analytics plugin, the Facebook Connect plugin allows interaction with a 3rd party web service,...
View ArticleAudioMetaData WebWorks Plug-in
This past fall we worked with the UCOSP program again, with a kickoff sprint back in September, and several students joined us to work on WebWorks plugins for the term. Many of the students worked on...
View ArticleThree plugins updated by UCOSP student
This is the second follow-up post from the UCOSP program this past fall. Besides creating new WebWorks plugins, some of our work has been to maintain the ones we have built in previous terms. Tim,...
View ArticleBuilding bridges for Enterprise Mobility
App URL – A cross-platform love story Invocation BlackBerry has a great invocation framework allowing you to easily interact with Applications on BlackBerry 10, reuse code from other applications...
View ArticleGoogle Analytics Upstream to PhoneGap
Written by: Tim Windsor This is the third follow-up post from the UCOSP program this past fall. In previous terms, we started working on PhoneGap plugins to add BlackBerry 10 support. We started by...
View ArticleGeolocating your employees when they enter dangerous places
BlackBerry was recently asked for help from a large public health organization with an unusual request. This health organization wanted help in writing an app, which would track and upload their...
View ArticleSystemDialog for WebWorks with Signals and Slots
This is the final follow-up post from the UCOSP program this past fall. In the previous posts, we talked about the work we did on the new AudioMetaData plugin, updates to some existing plugins, and...
View ArticleConnecting to Couchbase with PouchDB
Couchbase Mobile is a NoSQL distributed database available under the Apache 2 open source license, and commercially supported through the Couchbase Company. NoSQL usage in the enterprise is on the...
View ArticleListening to MediaKeys in WebWorks
Listening to the hardware media keys in a WebWorks application is a cool ability that I didn’t know how to make happen until fairly recently. Through the work of students in the program over the last...
View ArticleEmergency Contact List (ECL) Update
Over a year ago we introduced you to what has become the most popular sample app in our catalogue. The Emergency Contact List application. At its core, ECL is an app that receives a Push payload,...
View ArticleBuilding a Cross Platform, Salesforce Powered, Contact List App
Recently I was tasked with building a new proof-of-concept app, which is nothing new for me as I’m all about building POCs. It’s a lot of fun, a great opportunity to hone my coding skills, and to...
View ArticleTest DPC: A Tool to Test Out Android for Work Apps
Blog post written by: Jeffrey Jeyachandren Software for enterprise use is made by developers who dedicate their time to creating safe and productive features for their applications. But the IT...
View ArticleMessage Listener
Recently there was a requirement from customer (major bank) to a create messaging application that can listen for inbound and outbound messages, for the Android-powered BlackBerry PRIV device. I...
View ArticleBuilding Business Apps with BlackBerry: Integrating BlackBerry Integrity...
Here at BlackBerry, privacy and security are deeply engrained into the minds of all of us who bring you a productive, and secure mobility experience. As an Android developer, you too can make use of...
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