The PlayBook has a few different Keyboard types depending on what type of input the user is asked to provide. The BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK for Adobe AIR allows the developer to assign what type of keyboard should be shown for a specific input box. For the video and images below I used an example project called KeyboardTypes, all the source for this and other projects is located at here. First lets take a look at a picture containing all the...

I created this game called PickQuick for demoing and testing applications across screens. I have previously demo’d this working across various devices, but recently at the #jivhack (hackathon in Chicago this last weekend) I decided to code in the support for TV remotes and get it running on the TV with AIR for TV. Here is a video of the outcome:PickQuick running on AIR for TV, Android, and iOS from Renaun Erickson on Vimeo. The full...

Part of BlackBerry’s AppWorld services is the ability to have your users purchase goods inside your application. This service provides an API to use inside your AIR for PlayBook applications. Read on to check out the basics of using this new API, new as of Beta 3 or Tablet OS SDK for Adobe AIR 0.9.2. I will show you how to use the API in local mode to test the different responses your application can get during a purchase sequence. To test...

In this blog I’ll show how to create a custom cell renderer skin for the QNX UI component List class. The custom cell renderer will display an image, text, and box beneath the text for affect. The List class implements virtualization of the cell renderers and reuses instances of the objects that are displayed as you scroll up and down. This allows for memory optimization and speed gains by not creating and destroying a bunch of cell...

Check out the latest development beta bits for developing applications for the PlayBook. Video covering the new Beta3 or BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK/Simulator 0.9.2 for Adobe AIR:Run Through of PlayBook Beta3 AIR SDK Updates from Renaun Erickson on Vimeo. Highlights:Differences of old simulator and new simulator New simulator portrait mode simulation Sample HelloWorld application showing off blackberry-tablet.xml for custom splash screen and...

BlackBerry released some new beta bits for the PlayBook device and Tablet OS recently. As part of the latest beta release for the PlayBook, the WebWorks SDK for Tablet OS was introduced (that’s for another post). Along with the introduction of WebWorks SDK for Tablet OS the update to the Tablet OS SDK for Adobe AIR, the simulator was updated. First the simulator update details. The main change was the added ability to simulate the rotation...