My article yesterday on headless apps sparked up quite the discussion. At the time I'm writing this the blog has accumulated nearly 500 comments and yes, I've read each and every one of them. Rather than attempt to reply throughout the comments I thought it would be better to address as much as I could in a singular post. First off, I stand by my original article. That being said I...
It was just over 5 weeks ago that BlackBerry released the Gold 10.2 SDK to developers which was to include support for headless apps. I had planned on writing this article right after the release to update everyone on how headless apps would work. However, I wasn't expecting to have to write a negative article about it which is why I held off until now, hoping that BlackBerry would...
Well, its been just about 6 months since the Z10 was released so I figured it would be a perfect time for a follow up to my post from last year. The reactions I got after my first post was mixed, but overall positive. It was great to see so many people support my decision. There were, of course, people who thought I was crazy. So did I make the right choice? This might get a little...
Just a few days ago Bla1ze wrote about being able to run almost any Android 2.3.3 apps on BB10 courtesy of forums member xsacha. What the work around was able to do, simply put, is to enable a permission that allows Android apps that utilize native code to run under BB10. Previously we were led to believe that only Java based Android apps would run using the Dalvik JVM which...
It's no secret that BlackBerry 10 users are dying to have apps with the ability to run in the background. As it stands now, BlackBerry 10 apps need to be open (or in Active Frames) to perform any sort of background task. Which, as you can imagine, can be pretty annoying at times. While looking over the BlackBerry Developer Blog today, I came across this new post regarding some sessions...
Daraius Gandevia, aka Shao128 of ShaoSoft Today, I quit my job. Nothing really out of the ordinary about that - people do it every day, but first let me take a step back and give you a little history. I've worked at my current job for over 8 years now and make a comfortable living. For the past 4 years in my spare time I developed apps for BlackBerry. You may know some of my apps...
Back in March of this year when RIM announced the Android player for PlayBook, my first thought was awesome! We were going to get the best of both worlds, we'd be able to run apps from two of the great software platforms out there. When the leaked version made its way to the internet a couple months ago and I had some actual hands on experience my feelings became a little bit more...
For those that attended, watched the live stream or followed our live blog of today's BlackBerry DevCon keynote event, you may have noticed one thing stuck out, and not because it was a focus of the keynote, but because it was absent. There was no mention of the current Java platform on which the BlackBerry Smartphone OS is based. It started to become clear to that the future of Java...
[ youtube video link for mobile viewing ] [This post comes from the CrackBerry forums courtesy of Shao128] Some of you may already be familiar with Orb, its been around for a few years now and works the BlackBerry phones with somewhat mixed results. Orb is an application for your Mac or Windows based computer and allows you to stream your media to web enabled devices (like the...