Questions tagged [blackberry-playbook]

BlackBerry PlayBook, a tablet computer running QNX OS.

BlackBerry PlayBook, a tablet computer developed and manufactured by Research in Motion, makers of the BlackBerry.

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Blackberry Tablet OS: Development Resources, Guides, Tutorials

Following the recent announcement of the new Blackberry Tablet OS, it's SDK and Simulator, any ideas where one could find resources and tutorials on how to develop for their new tablet OS? It will be nice for once to catch the wave on time.
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Repackaged Android App drawing issues on Blackberry Playbook simulator

I am trying to repackage a small game I made for Android to be used on the Blackberry Playbook. I was able to repackage it and deploy to the Blackberry Simulator on vmware just fine, except the redrawing on the simulator just behaves very strangely.…
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Opening a URL using the native PlayBook browser from an Android-based application

When a link is opened in a PlayBook application that runs in the Android JVM (that is, an Android app that's been ported to the PlayBook using the BlackBerry Plug-in for Android Development Tools), an Android WebView activity is launched to display…
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What is the Blackberry PlayBook's user agent?

What is the User-Agent string for the Blackberry PlayBook's web browser?
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Cannot set volume on BlackBerry Playbook

I have an issue in changing the volume of blackberry play book. First I am repacking my Android App to Palybook App. I need to change the volume of blackberry playbook using seekbar and in seeklistener I am setting the Audio manager volume. Here is…
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Multi-language HTML5 application

I'm developing a HTML5 application with CSS3 and jQuery. I have some text that I want to show in user language. Do you know how I can do that? This application will run on Blackberry Playbook and on others mobile devices. I don't know how to get…
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Datagrids on Flex Mobile

Adobe tells us to not use Datagrid on mobile devices. I'm creating a Blackberry Playbook application that has more screen space to potentially display a table of data. So a few questions arise! If I shouldn't use DataGrid, what should I use? (List…
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Finding devices on network with Bonjour / Zeroconf / jmDNS on PlayBook / Blackberry

I would like to develop an Android app which would run on Blackberry PlayBook. App would need to find other devices on the local network running the same app. I was thinking to implement Bonjour / Zeroconf / jmDNS protocol for finding devices but…
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How-to close an application in BlackBerry PlayBook?

When I launch an app (default Browser for example), it seems that there is no way to exit except reboot. I'm using PlayBook emulator.
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QNXStageWebView - drawViewPortToBitmapData() always drawing a white screen

I am using the Playbook Air SDK 2.1.0, trying to capture a bitmap of the contents of my webview. This is what I have tried: var bmd:BitmapData = new BitmapData(webView.viewPort.width,…
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deploying debug app to playbook gives "failure 881 required signatures missing (RDK, AUTHOR)"

I am using Marmalade to build a PlayBook app, but I think my question applies to PlayBook apps in general. I have successfully created a debugtoken.bar file and have installed it on my device. When I go to try to install a built application.bar file…
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Blackberry Playbook App Debug Installation Error

I am trying to install a Blackberry Webworks App from my MAC onto a playbook using a usb cable and terminal line commands blackberry-deploy -installApp... I am getting an error referring to an author mismatch between application and debug…
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Quick way to develop, debug and run android apps on Blackberry Playbook running Playbook OS 2.0

Has anyone come up with a strategy for quickly debugging and running android apps on Blackberry Playbook running Playbook OS 2.0 using the eclipse plug-in and command-line scripts?
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Blackberry Android runtime vs. NDK

I'm trying to repackage an Android app for Blackberry, as suggested here. The app has a native (NDK/JNI) library in it. When I try to build for the App World, I get several errors of the following…
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Open a .bar file in Blackberry Playbook Simulator

Hi I have a early version of an Playbook app one of our developers made for us in Flash Builder. It is a .bar file. I have installed all the required Abode and RIM SDK's, keys and simulator and can create an app myself in Flash Builder 4.5 which…
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