Painter Help And Review

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A little while ago, a guy named Joe gave me some help creating a Chat Style ListView.  While I was working on my app, he was working on his app called Painter. Joe is still making updates to the app, but it is a great app already. You are given the option of brush size, opacity and color. There are also eraser options for when you want to clear something.  For basic doodles, this would be fine. But, you can also load an image to make your doodles on top of. Of course, with the opacity option, it makes it Continue reading Painter Help And Review→

Chat Style ListView

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While I am continuing to add features to my Meetup for BlackBerry 10 app, I was wondering how I could add a chat like look when I show the Event Comments.  I was hoping that there would be a simple setting in the ListView to display the items in that format, but alas, that’s not the case.  However, with the help from Joe on the BBM Group for BB10 developer newbies (Baby Steps: BB Dev), we came up with a simple solution. The first step is to get your DataGroupModel in the right format.  When Meetup sends the Event Comments, Continue reading Chat Style ListView→

In App link to BBM Channel

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In my last post, I announced that I now had a BBM Channel.  As I mentioned, the main reason for creating the channel was for updates on any apps that I am creating for BB10.  As part of one of the updates to my Meetup app, I wanted a direct link to the channel, so that new users could subscribe and existing users a could see what I was up to as far as app development was concerned. I initially tried to add the link as a URL to launch from the app, but that only launches the browser and Continue reading In App link to BBM Channel→

DeanLogic now has a BBM Channel

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BlackBerry has been trying to get back its mobile market share. Part of this strategy was to create BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) for Android and Apple.  BBM is probably the best messenger app out there, but due to Android and Apple’s increased popularity, BBM has fallen in popularity.  However, even before the official release, BBM on Apple and Android definitely has a demand.  BlackBerry wasn’t going to just keep the old BBM either.  For BlackBerry users, they added Voice and Video chat over Wi-fi.  And then for the BB10 phones, they added Screenshare through BBM.  As an IT person and an Continue reading DeanLogic now has a BBM Channel→

Dynamic Navigation Pane Push Pages

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That is somewhat of a tongue twister and it all came about because of a question on a forum.  The CrackBerry.com forums has a section for new developers, which is always a nice thing to have.  The poster is apparently trying to create an app to serve up radio stations (I think) and he wants to provide a Page for each station and also provide the list of stations through an xml file.  On the main page, he wants to display a ListView with links to the secondary Pages. Normally, I would just create ComponentDefinition for each Page and then Continue reading Dynamic Navigation Pane Push Pages→

Dynamic Context Menu and the Period

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While I am still slowly working on my Meetup for BlackBerry 10 app, I decided to do a “quick” app that handles shopping lists.  This was suggested by a user on the Crackberry.com Forum.  He wanted a basic shopping list that he could easily move regularly bought items to a buy list and check of the items when he purchased them.  He also wanted to be able to move items on the list, but that will be another post (if I get it working). I decide to keep things really easy and only do a single page for the entire Continue reading Dynamic Context Menu and the Period→