BlackBerry Jam To Signal The Rise of Headless Apps Next Week (Background Apps)
One of the most requested features for BlackBerry 10 apps has been the ability to run applications in the background without an active frame. Many apps from instant messaging clients to notification utilities would benefit from such a feature and BlackBerry has promised it is coming soon. We mentioned earlier that BlackBerry has a…
Vote for the 2013 BlackBerry Developer Community Awards #BBDevAwards
We told you earlier about the nominations for the BlackBerry Developer Community Awards and now they have reached the final vote. You can head on over to the awards page to throw in your ballot. The winners will be announced at the BlackBerry Jam Americas TweetUp on May 15th. Check out the finalists you can…
BlackBerry Discussing “New Background Services Framework” at BlackBerry Jam this Month
I continued digging through the BlackBerry Jam developer catalog for later this month and struck gold. I found that BlackBerry has a session dedicated to what they have been calling “headless apps” until now but now call their “Background Services Framework.” In a nutshell this framework will allow developers to run applications and processes in…
Flurry Mobile Analytics Coming to BlackBerry 10
BlackBerry 10 developers have been complaining to me about the lack of an analytics service for BlackBerry 10 apps. Even BlackBerrys own analytics program does not work on BlackBerry 10 and is set as “coming soon.” This has not stopped an enterprising developer from creating a Localytics unsupported opensource client but it is something. That…
BlackBerry Previews New WebWorks “Bootstrap” Sample for Developers
BlackBerry WebWorks developers have been struggling to create “Built for BlackBerry” experiences on BlackBerry 10. Our buddy Chad at BlackBerry is trying to simplify that by creating a new WebWorks Bootstrap sample for developers. Instead of using frameworks like jQuery Mobile or even BlackBerrys BBUI.js this sample Bootstrap just gives developers the basic skeleton for…
BlackBerry Jam Americas 2013 Session Catalog Now Available
BlackBerry Jam Americas is running concurrently with BlackBerry Live again this year in Orlando on May 14th through the 16th. BlackBerry posted up the session catalog for the event with over 60 sessions and 7 hands on labs with 20 more sessions and more labs to come. They will be covering everything from C/C++, HTML5,…
Sencha Touch 2.2 Release Includes BlackBerry 10 Performance Enhancements
Sencha Touch introduced a BlackBerry 10 theme in their previous release of v2.1.1 of their JavaScript framework. Now with Sencha Touch v2.2 they have added significant enhancements along with Webkit rendering optimization and performance improvements. This includes bringing list scrolling performance to 35-40 frames per second which is nice and fluid along with touch responsiveness…
BlackBerry Shares Some Insight Into Upcoming "Headless Apps" On BlackBerry 10
I was disappointed that BlackBerry did not manage to figure out “headless apps” in BlackBerry OS 10.1 but thankfully it is upcoming on their radar. In case you don’t know “headless apps” are apps that can run in the background without running as an active frame. That means you can have more than 8…
