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How to Add Menu Items Using the BlackBerry Widget SDK
Using menu items effectively within your application is one of many ways to create a positive application experience, and helps to improve the overall engagement and usage of your application. The...
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Introducing BlackBerry 6 to Developers
There’s been no shortage of excitement about BlackBerry® 6 lately – I am thrilled by the response to our latestBlackBerry 6 video and Inside BlackBerry blog posts. We wanted to find a way to outline...
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Developing The NEW BlackBerry Browser
Over the past year, the team responsible for the new BlackBerry® Browser in BlackBerry 6 has been challenged with identifying what makes a great mobile web browsing experience, and then building it....
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HTML5 Elements for BlackBerry
As I’m sure you’ve heard by now, WebKit has come to BlackBerry®! This is an exciting time not only for the BlackBerry Web Platform, but for web technologies in general. With the combination of WebKit...
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BlackBerry 6 Browser Developer Documentation
The BlackBerry® Browser documentation page has been recently updated to include developer manuals and reference guides for the new browser on BlackBerry® 6. The following documents are now online:...
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BlackBerry WebWorks and the Open Source Community
Following this week’s BlackBerry WebWorks announcement, I thought it would be a good idea to speak with fellow Inside BlackBerry Developer’s Blog bloggers, Adam and Prosanta about WebWorks and the...
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RIM’s expanded App Ecosystem: the benefits for developers
Jim Tobin, SVP of the Software, Services & Enterprise Markets business unit at Research In Motion® (RIM®), has a great blog post on Inside BlackBerry highlighting the benefits of our recent...
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BBM Social Platform – Adding in-app chat to your app
Want to allow your app’s users to chat with their contacts without having to leave your app? Add BlackBerry® Messenger (BBM™) Chat! By integrating BBM chat directly into your app, you have the...
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BBM Social Platform – Drawing Users in with the Profile Box
BlackBerry® Messenger (BBM™) is more than just chat! With the release of the BBM Social Platform, we have released a comprehensive set of tools to easily add the power of BBM to your app. This blog...
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Using Web Inspector to get a 3000% performance boost
Here’s a guest post from Konrad to convince you of the powers of Web Inspector! – Adam S. Have you ever used that cool button on your BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet Browser that looks like a book? It’s...
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Bloggers Pick: Widget Presentations at Dev Con (Prosanta)
The BlackBerry Developer Conference is fast approaching, bringing with it a truckload of exciting sessions for both the experienced and budding developer. While we highly recommend you check out the...
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Bloggers Pick: Web Presentations at Dev Con (Adam Stanley)
The BlackBerry Developer Conference is fast approaching, bringing with it a truckload of exciting sessions for both the experienced and budding developer. While we highly recommend you check out the...
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Bloggers Pick: Community Sessions at Dev Con (Mike Kirkup)
The BlackBerry® Developer Conference is fast approaching, bringing with it a truckload of exciting sessions for both the experienced and budding developer. While we highly recommend you check out the...
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More BlackBerry Widget Tools Now Available!
We are excited to announce that the BlackBerry® Web Plug-in version 2.0 Beta1 editions of our web tooling for Eclipse® and Microsoft® Visual Studio® are now available for download. You will also...
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Update your BlackBerry WebWorks application without Recompiling
I’d like to share a useful practice that can help to improve the efficiency of your BlackBerry® WebWorks™ development: how to get around recompiling your BlackBerry WebWorks application after small...
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File Access In a BlackBerry Widget
The BlackBerry® Widget API allows web developers to very easily access files that are stored on the BlackBerry® smartphone or on the SD Card. Web developers are able to store JavaScript, CSS or any...
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BlackBerry WebKit Browser Preview at Mobile World Congress!
One of my favorite aspects of Mike Lazaridis’ keynote today at Mobile World Congress 2010 was the preview of our upcoming WebKit browser. We have been talking about the upcoming WebKit browser since...
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Use HTML5 in Your BlackBerry Web Content!
I thought I’d share a few examples of some of the HTML5 input controls supported by the BlackBerry® Browser. As you know, HTML5 is the next evolution of the hyper text markup language (HTML) standard,...
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Working around the backlight timeout with JavaScript and meta tags
The JavaScript® engine used in the BlackBerry® Browser is designed to terminate any scripts running longer than 10 seconds, or to stop running your JavaScript after the device backlight goes out. This...
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Building 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...
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