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Gord Tanner (@gordtanner) Michael Brooks (@mwbrooks)

May 1, 2012

Porting to BlackBerry using Apache Cordova

What is …

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What is …

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You may know it as …

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Wikipedia Port Demo

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iOS

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Android

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BlackBerry

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Be Agnostic …

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It will look right at first, butWhen people look deeperThe will only see what is wrong

Looks Weird on BlackBerry …

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We’ve Solved this Already …

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HTML 5 Makes it Easier …

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Platform UI Guidelines …

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OS7

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Menus

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Menus

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PlayBook

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bbUI.js

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https://github.com/blackberry/bbUI.js

Responsive Web Design …

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http://www.anderssonwise.com/

Quick Preview …

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http://responsive.is/

CSS Media Queries - No Magic …

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#button { width: 25%; }

@media screen and (max-width: 480px) { #button { width: 100%; }}

Many Samples …

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http://mediaqueri.es/

Cross-Platform Gotchas …

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• Interaction• Mouse Events• Touch Events (thumbs.js)

• CSS Performance

• JavaScript Performance

THANK YOU

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Gord Tanner (@gordtanner)

Michael Brooks (@mwbrooks)

May 1, 2012