BlackBerry WebWorks Contributions

[hawaiianhoudini]

I would like to see a talking caller id on my bold. If there are listed in my contacts then the name being said would be awesome, if they're not in my contacts then the number.

[jmace]

A great extension to the current menu API would be the ability to do sub menu items in widgets.

On my Bold 9700, there is an example of it in the media player. While playing a song, hit the menu and check out the repeat options.... there is a small indicator that it can be expanded to show 3 repeat options.

[jmace]

A nice addition would be the ability to unregister events from hardware keys in the System.api.

Also, starting a widget on the booting of a device would be great so that we can register push listeners and catch data at any time.

[jmace]

A javascript plotting/graphing library would be a great addition.

So many of the nicer javascript plotting libraries rely on jQuery, MochiKit, and prototype that they would be difficult to integrate into a widget without weighing down the application.

Some examples,  flot     plotKit     

[tbryant127]

I would like a Widget API for the PhoneListener interface.  This is a functionality that I have not been able to implement through a custom JavaScript extension.

Specifically, in my widget I want to keep a running total of the callAnswered() and callInitiated() events.

I envision that this would work similar to the openPushListener() that is in the current Widget API where the invoked method would call the Widget's Javascript function.

Thanks for your consideration.

[boxillc]

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tneil wrote:

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Abhijit wrote:

Adding web service API will be great. I do not want to use KSOAP all the time. JSR 172 has lot of issues. A simple but sufficient API to call web services will be useful.

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I wanted to follow up to clarify what you may be asking for since JavaScript is a bit of a different beast than Java.  I made another post in the web forum outlining some different approaches out of the box.

But I am also interested in your request to directly call a web service.  Are you looking from the tooling to be able to point to a SOAP WebService and have all the objects and methods generated in JavaScript so that you can programmatically call that web service in your widget without worrying about the SOAP protocol?

I'm wondering if the object wrapper generation would be more useful than say a raw API and wanted to get your feedback.

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Are we getting any traction on this feature. This will help many people who were committed ot RIM and developed applications for MDS studio, only to be disappointed by RIM when they killed the MDS studio  tool.

This will assist us in rewriting the MDS studio apps with widgets

[jmace]

Ability to read a QR barcode from an image...

[willthompsonatl]

As people are gettng ride of home phones and using just the cell phone, the problem is getting work calls on cell after 5 or 6. it would be nice to use contact catagories to all calls come in duriing business hours(this would be business contacts), family calls to come anytime, personal calls to come after work hours. call me 678 977 6903 to discuss

[tneil]

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jmace wrote:

A nice addition would be the ability to unregister events from hardware keys in the System.api.

Also, starting a widget on the booting of a device would be great so that we can register push listeners and catch data at any time.

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Just following up that now as of version 1.5 you can register your application to run on start-up of the device.

[tneil]

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tbryant127 wrote:

I would like a Widget API for the PhoneListener interface.  This is a functionality that I have not been able to implement through a custom JavaScript extension.

Specifically, in my widget I want to keep a running total of the callAnswered() and callInitiated() events.

I envision that this would work similar to the openPushListener() that is in the current Widget API where the invoked method would call the Widget's Javascript function.

Thanks for your consideration.

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As a follow up... In  the latest release of APIs there is now the phone listener API that should allow you to accomplish this