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10-07-2009 12:04 PM - last edited on 02-03-2010 09:18 AM
Hi Everyone,
With the launch of BlackBerry Widgets we are looking for feedback from the community on what new JavaScript BlackBerry Widget API's should be added next. We have a pretty good list of initial API's, but we want you to help influence what comes next.
Make sure to get familiar with the current functionality by checking out the existing BlackBerry Widget API's as well as what is offered in Gears on the 5.0 operating system. Then let us know what you would like to see added.
Also note that there will be a way for you to create your own JavaScript BlackBerry Widget API's, so you will have the opportunity to expose any of the thousands of Java API's available on a BlackBerry smartphone today! More on how to do that in the coming months
So fire away, and let us know what you want!!
Tim Neil
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10-19-2009 01:41 PM
What would be really cool, is if I could have a timer to put my Blackberry mode in "Silent" mode for a preset time period, then automatically put it back in Normal mode at the end of the timer - would be useful for church, meetings, meals, etc.
As it is, I miss many meetings, phone calls, incoming notifications, etc. because I forget to turn the noise back on.
Thanks!
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10-21-2009 09:59 AM
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10-28-2009 01:43 AM
Is there a way to add a listener to the inbox? This would allow widgets to get push notifications without using MDS.
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10-28-2009 07:34 AM
There currently isn't an inbox listener. However you can listen for push data which can use either the public BIS push infrastructure or the BES/MDS infrastructure.
I'll add the inbox listener to the list ![]()
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10-28-2009 04:50 PM
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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10-28-2009 10:10 PM
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.
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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11-03-2009 03:20 PM
I would like web service consumption and calling to be as simple as it was in MDS development.
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11-07-2009 05:11 PM
In Desktop Manager, with my blackberry attached, Please give me a way to display on my PC running Windows XT [for starters] the phone calendar, messages and contacts as they display on the blackberry allowing me to use my home keyboard to more accurately and less painfully enter the information.
I request this because I am a Veteran who is disabled [Traumatic Brain Injury] and so on a limited income with high medical debt. I am not alone. One of the accessibility issues you could really help with is the fact that the only thing the calendar, address and other functions will synch with is high end big business applications. It won't even sync with my old [obsolete but serviceable] Lotus Organizer. One Hundred to Three Hundred dollars is simply out of the retired, disabled and heavy medical debt groups abilities, as are the three hundred dollar and up netbooks and laptops with their additional fifty dollar a month connection fees.
We still need to get to doctors, know where they are and how to contact them. We Vets have a huge amount of wasted time sitting in VA outpatient pharmacy waiting rooms and whether retired, disabled or both we need to keep track of what we need to be doing next, both on the road and at home.
If I have posted this to the wrong group, please move it, or forward a copy to the correct development group in RIM. Meanwhile I will continue to search for Open Doc solutions and sit here in front of my desktop PC and full size keyboard, trying to get my thumbs to move to keys on the phone keypad that they know are for other fingers. [Old learning getting in the way of new. Especially hard for us with learning challenged brains.]
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12-10-2009 10:33 PM
I would really like to see some a new list widget that will scroll like an iPhone (flick scrolling). I've universally found that users familiar with iPhones are underwhelmed that the Blackberrys don't do that. It seems like a small thing overall, but it's probably the #1 thing I get feedback on from those that also have iPhones.
There are 3rd party apps that do it for BB, we would just like it to be part of the API.
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