My first BlackBerry 10 app

I just updated my first BlackBerry 10 application; Meetup for BlackBerry 10.

I was attempting to get the app released by a deadline in order to win a free Z10 in Red.  The offer was to be one of the first 500 developers to build an app and then get it certified as Built for BlackBerry in a certain time frame.   Well, I didn’t get it submitted in time, because there is a big delay between getting your app submitted and getting it reviewed; then apparently there is a delay for getting Built for BlackBerry certified.  Because I rushed things, it didn’t work that great in version 1.0, which resulted in a couple of bad reviews.  My main problem was finding the time to work on the application, which is hard when you have a less than year old son and a pregnant wife.  Then life threw me another curve and I lost my job.  So, I have been working on fixing a couple of issues with the 1.0 release and adding new features.

One of the bugs 1.o had was that the UTC offset for the events was not correct.  I tried just adding the long value to the date to get the correct date and time, but that didn’t work.  The solution was simple and I guess if I had more time to look at things I would have noticed it the first time.  The fix is to use setUtcOffset .  D’uh.

QDateTime tmpEventStartDT = QDateTime::currentDateTime();
tmpEventStartDT.setMSecsSinceEpoch(query.value("eventDate").toLongLong());
tmpEventStartDT.setUtcOffset(utcOffsetSeconds);

Another issue happened to due with how Meetup did repeating events.  Instead of using an Integer for each new event, repeating events have an alphanumeric value.  Because I was looking for an Integer, none of the repeating events were showing up after the first event.  I didn’t even notice this in version 1.0 and I finally noticed it after I made some clean up to the events list and noticed that not all the events were showing up.  It took a bit of effort to get that debug cleared.

The major flaw of the 1.0 version was that it didn’t show the Event or Group detail.  The reason I left it as a link was the lack of time in figuring out a way to show the event detail easily.  I haven’t messed with Sheets yet, but I ended up using Tabs to display the Event information, plus the RSVP and Photos list.  I did use a Sheet to show the final individual photo for an photo album.  But, with that there are still limitations.  I need to figure out how to zoom in on a photo.

The Information pages, photo albums and RSVP lists are all new features for 1.1, but they still need to be tweaked.  But, just as a fussy baby is rushing me on this post, hopefully I will get around to making more tweaks to what is available and add even more features.

UPDATE :

I got the approval email for my update.  So, it took about 2 days to approve the changes.  Now I modified the description and screen shots, because I didn’t think I should do it before the change was updated.  Hopefully it takes less time to modify those things.  I didn’t realize that it wasn’t automatically updating things, so I mistakenly created 3 updates in an attempt to get the text and screen shot changes to save.  Oh well, lessons learned.