Earlier this week I stumbled upon a request for someone wanting to create a feature that is present in the native Calendar app and I thought it would make for a great tutorial. What they wanted to mimic was to allow the user to set a default tab when opening the app. The use case in the Calendar app is you can choose between Day, Week, or Month for your default view. Not only do I think...
Way back at my first conference, BlackBerry Jam Americas 2012, I heard an interesting statistic: 80% of all apps contain lists. And if you think about it's not that surprising of a statistic considering most of the social network apps (Twitter, Facebook, etc) and everyone's favorite app, CB10, are a list of items. Because of that BlackBerry made sure to have a very good feature for...
If you're among those who want the 'dark theme' back on your Q10 or available for your Z10, you now have the option of making that happen thanks to some files from the Berry Leaks team. There is a few small caveats that you'll want to pay attention to though, like the fact you need to be on specific OS' and you'll need to sideload the files but overall, that's pretty minor stuff if you'...
Live in or around Washington, D.C. and looking to network with like minded developers and designers? If so, BlackBerry is hosting a Designer and Developer Mashup at Tonic in Foggy Bottom, Washington D.C. Tuesday September 10th from 7:30-9:30 PM. There will be food, drinks, apps, prizes, including BlackBerry 10 smartphones and more! You can register now for the Designer and Developer...
Developers rejoice! OS 10.2.0.1445 has now been made available in beta form. This is a developer build for dev alpha devices and is a beta - so that means if you don't know what you're doing and/or have a use for it, steer clear. There is most likely a good amount of stuff missing from the actual OS as well, so there's that too. If you're a developer and want to fire up this beta, you...
As some of you may have noticed by the now, the planned maintenance for BlackBerry World that happened on August 27th brought with it some visual changes to the app with the stand-out changes being that the Built for BlackBerry apps are now more prominent. There's a bit more to it than that though, the update was part of a bigger initiative to improve the Built for BlackBerry program...
Regardless of platform or coding language, to successfully create an app there is a general process I like to follow. When most people think of coding apps, they focus on the coding aspect, however that it just one piece of the process. So let’s take a look at my four steps of creating an app. Planning Step one of almost any good process involves planning. In the case of apps and...
Many of you are familiar with S4BB - they've been around for a long time, pumping out apps for legacy BlackBerry OS and have been busy on BB10. Lately S4BB has been getting a lot of flak for exactly how many apps they've put into BlackBerry World, and BlackBerry themselves have been criticized for letting a single developer publish 47,000 apps in the market. That's a pretty massive...
The 'Built for BlackBerry' personal assistant application, SayIt, has been updated once again, this time to version 2.4 and with the update brings something I've not seen before on BlackBerry 10 - Touchless Sensing. If you are a frequent user of the the app you will now have the option to speak to SayIt without even touching your BlackBerry - clever stuff. The 'Touchless Sensing'...
I have tried a few pricing models, free only, free w/ ads, free version/paid version, etc but the best I've found is using the "freemium" model. The idea behind freemium is the app is initially free but to access additional portions or to gain extra ability in the app is to pay real money. This same methodology can be applied to already paid apps, thus recreating premium plus apps. Not...