BlackBerry WebWorks Contributions

[_MARIO_]

What about Listener API? It would be nice to have GPS support on WebWorks...

[tneil]

You're in luck... GPS is already supported in WebWorks

[_MARIO_]

You are right... I should have expressed myself more precisely. I was actually looking for an extension library that works both on OS5 and OS6. Geolocation API as far as I understand it only works on browser 6 onwards.

Actually what I'm looking at is what PhoneGap offers in their framework...

[_MARIO_]

Moreover... is it a good idea to develop something knowing that Gears API is already deprecated?

Instead of relying on a deprecated API I think RIM should develop an external library to support this in a more natural way...

[tneil]

Hi _MARIO_

The GPS functionality does work on both 5.0 and 6.0 both using the same HTML5 geolocation code.  In that article I linked it has a JavaScript toolkit that you include in your application so that the HTML5 geolocation, database and workders will work on 5.0.

The toolkit is smart enough to know not to load itself on 6.0

[Tsudeily]

accelerometer API for smartphones.

[tneil]

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Tsudeily wrote:

accelerometer API for smartphones.

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You'll be glad to see that Accelerometer for 6.0 smartphones is scheduled for our Zeta release https://github.com/blackberry/WebWorks/wiki/Roadmap

This will be based on the W3C Device Motion API.  It is also included on BlackBerry 7 smartphones and is available today on PlayBook

[Tsudeily]

Awesome! Other one I'd like to see is ability to add submenus. Would certainly save me some menu space within my current app

[praveen_rajan]

@Tim Neil

It would be great if a QR Code scanner is implemented. QR code processing is one section which is widely used now. Is there any way to speed up the implementation of QR Code Scanner? Even I could be of some assistance with that if required

Thanks

Praveen

[tneil]

If you would like to take on the coding of the QR extension that would be great.  I would suggest opening up an Issue on the github repository.  We can tag it as a feature request and we can start the conversation on what all would be expected as far as a contribution is concerned.

We could then figure out which release of the software it could find itself into

I would also suggest signing a Contributor's agreement to get the process started.

https://github.com/blackberry/WebWorks/wiki/How-to-Contribute