laurent hasson blackberry

The Web Platform

Striving to offer the best Open Web platform

Laurent Hasson@ldhasson, [email protected]

Technical Director, BlackBerry Web Platform

• Industry leading WebKit browser with best in class standards support: full desktop-class rendering• position:fixed, overflow:scroll shipped in Spring 2011 on PB, and late Summer 2011 on BB7 devices, WebGL

and accelerated Canvas in PlayBook OS 2.0 in Feb 2012.• Full Web Application platform across tablets and smartphones• WebWorks and Apache Cordova (fka PhoneGap)

• Leading edge Web dev tools for inspection, debugging, emulation• Ripple and Web Inspector

BlackBerry Loves the Web

2012-03-19 London Web Summit 2

Say no to NIBS

• The “Native Is Better” crowd are missing the point of the Web– It’s the scale of the market: powerful, cross-

platform, and an abundant skill set.• This is not to say that Web is better than

Native– That would be silly

• But the Web is absolutely competitive– Most types of apps can now be built very nicely

using Web technologies– The gap is narrow today, keeps on getting

narrower, and fast.• Native and Web will coexist with the Web

likely taking the mass market (> 50% apps)– But Native experience is the competitor to Web

experience


NIBS* Native Is Better Syndrome

London Web Summit 4

BlackBerry WebWorks

• A standard HMTL/JS/CSS Web application, packaged in a native container, with access to native APIs.

• In market since 2009. Now on BlackBerry 5/6/7, BlackBerry PlayBook and upcoming BB10 phones

• WebWorks == Apache Cordova for BlackBerry

• OSS Community http://www.github.com/blackberry

• An HTML5 application doesn’t mean no App store or no access to native service.

BlackBerryWebWorks

2012-03-19

http://www.github.com/blackberry

Open Source Ecosystem


bbUI.js

• Active in the open web community: WebKit, jQueryMobile, Apache Cordova• Also involved with Dojo and Sencha• Many other innovative projects already in GitHub: AliceJS, bbUI.js…

London Web Summit 6

Tooling

• Bring desktop-class development experience to mobile– Remote Web Inspector desktop allows you to real-time

test/debug your app from your desktop– Edit/Refresh/Test cycle dear to the Web remains intact for

Mobile Web development

• Focus on mobile testing– Emulate mobile HTML5 rendering, layout and APIs with

Ripple– Greatly reduce the need for simulators– Edit/Refresh/Test cycle dear to the Web remains intact for

Mobile Web development (again)

2012-03-19

Ripple: Browser-based Emulation

2012-03-19 7London Web Summit

Web Inspector: Ultimate Web Dev Tool


Over USB too!

London Web Summit 9

Then what?

OK Laurent, great platform!

But what about the market?

2012-03-19

London Web Summit 10

App World

2012-03-19

That’s more than Apple®, Android™ and Windows Mobile.

13% of vendors on App World have made over $100,000


BBM: BlackBerry Messenger

2012-03-19

BBM helps make your apps stickierWith WebWorks or Apache Cordova,build Web apps with BBM integration…… and payment, advertising, push…


OS: Market Decomposition

2012-03-19

76%WebKit

49%WebKit

https://bdsc.webapps.blackberry.com/devzone/appworld

BlackBerry Tooling URLs• Ripple

– http://ripple.tinyhippos.com/ • BlackBerry WebWorks

– http://us.blackberry.com/developers/browserdev/• BlackBerry WebWorks Handhelds Downloads

– http://us.blackberry.com/developers/browserdev/widgetsdk.jsp• BlackBerry WebWorks PlayBook Downloads

– http://us.blackberry.com/developers/tablet/webworks.jsp• WebWorks Open Source on GitHub

– https://github.com/blackberry


The End – Thank You

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