BlackBerry Loves the Web – The Platform

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BlackBerry Loves the Web

PhoneGap Day US 2013

Ken Wallis / @ken_wallis

The Platform

Every good app needs a strong platform.

HTML5Test

Right at the top of all mobile browsers for HTML5 compatibility

Better than all desktop browsers

Ringmark

A web-based test suite for capabilities that modern web apps require.

The first vendor mobile browser to pass ringmark ring 1!

getUserMedia

WebGL

IndexedDB

...

Browser

The browser app is built in HTML5/CSS/JS

Prestige built-in app with web technologies

Confident in the performance and stability of the platform

Remote Web Inspector

Focus on quality tooling and debugging

first mobile vendor to have remote web inspection, since PlayBook

Apache Cordova

Center of gravity for cross-platform mobile application development

  • BlackBerry has committers on the project
  • BlackBerry 10 is a core platform
  • Supported as of 2.3, rebuilt for 2.8
  • BlackBerry specific Plugins
  • Actively working on 3.0 (CLI & Plugman)
Tools and frameworks are building up around Cordova

Many important vendors and platforms are directly involved

BlackBerry OS, PlayBook, and BB10 support

BlackBerry Specific Plugins

https://github.com/blackberry/cordova-blackberry-plugins/ BBM

Payment

Invocation

etc.

Call to action

It is time to start thinking beyond the Phone

New horizons for Apache Cordova

Many industries are looking at HTML5 as the platform of choice.

Many also want to develop an application ecosystem

Automotive

Medical

Think about how much time you spend in your car

Think about how many other people do the same

Within 5 years we will have true driver-less cars

What are you going to do while sitting in your car?

At BlackBerry Live we demoed a BBM Video chat between a car and a BB10 device

QNX Car

Working on QNX Car as a supported platform within Apache Cordova

Target your app to automotive

Consider regulatory issues

This is just the beginning of what the true mobile computing world will be

Fin.

Ken Wallis / @ken_wallis