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The DeanLogic Smart Watch

Posted on July 9, 2014 by DeanLogic Passport — No Comments ↓

Lately there has been an uptick in wearable devices. Most likely due to the introduction of the Pebble and the latest rumors and announcements of smart watches from Samsung, Apple and Google, among the big hitters. With everyone coming out with what they seem to think a smart watch should be, I figured I should share my thoughts, just in case someone decides to build one. The first thing is to focus in just the watch. Another wearable device that has been popular is the smart band. Nike Fuel Band, Fitbit, Jawbone and others are battling it out in this Continue reading The DeanLogic Smart Watch→

Painter – My First App

Posted on July 3, 2014 by JoeQXS — No Comments ↓

Painter was my first project that got me into application development and is currently available in Blackberry World for all BB10 devices (as of the latest release). The application lets users load a picture onto a canvas and then draw on it with any color they wish (basically it’s like MSPaint). Conceptually, Painter is very simple – You load a picture and layered on top of that picture is a webpage with a transparent background. However, I did face several challenges and I wouldn’t have even released the application if it wasn’t for the support I received from another developer. Continue reading Painter – My First App→

BlackBerry shifts towards Android

Posted on June 21, 2014 by DeanLogic — No Comments ↓

The day before the quarterly financial results were announced, BlackBerry announced that they would be pre-loading Amazon Store on their BlackBerry 10 devices when the OS version 10.3 is released in the fall. Amazon Store is a branch of Android apps and by providing the store automatically, BlackBerry has made available a large amount (200,000+) of apps for their customers. While this is not the same as having Google Play loaded on the phones, it is probably as close as BlackBerry wants to be to offering an Android phone that is not an Android phone. For Native developers of BlackBerry 10, Continue reading BlackBerry shifts towards Android→

CubiX Review

Posted on June 3, 2014 by DeanLogic Passport

As a member of an app developer group, you have the opportunity to hear of an app that you might not find looking in an app store. I usually try to help test the apps from the Baby Steps: BB Dev group before they get to the app world, but I didn’t have the time during this app’s development. Now that it is launched, I took the time to download it and give it a look. CubiX is a side scrolling time touch game. In other words, a game that requires the user to touch the screen at the right Continue reading CubiX Review→

Meetup for BlackBerry 10 release 1.1.3

Posted on March 19, 2014 by DeanLogic — No Comments ↓

I just got the update 1.1.3 for my Meetup for BlackBerry 10 app in BlackBerry World. I didn’t put in all the changes that I wanted to, mostly because of issues that came up while I was making the upgrade. Beyond my computer having problems, Meetup had a DDoS attack, which brought the app down for over a week. Unfortunately for my app reviews, a few people downloaded the app during that time and couldn’t get the app working. Because of that, I decided to release the app with what I had changed and then start another version with some Continue reading Meetup for BlackBerry 10 release 1.1.3→

Cascades and auto animation

Posted on March 8, 2014 by DeanLogic

While I am trying to work on the next release for my Meetup app, I decided to take a little diversion to make a simple game app. Well, simple game app has taken a little bit longer than expected, but while working on the code, I learned a little unexpected feature about Cascades. When you want to place an item in a Container, you can let the Container handle the placement, or you can set the X and Y coordinates for the control (which is a subclass of a VisualNode). The values to set are the TranslationX and TranslationY, which Continue reading Cascades and auto animation→