Posts By: georgemck
Mobile Augmented Reality with HTML5 on BlackBerry 10

My friend @Yosun on Twitter of AReality3D asked me to create a mobile AR app using Adobe PhoneGap, http://www.phonegap.com, and the JS Aruco library, https://code.google.com/p/js-aruco. JS Aruco utilizes a port of OpenCV, http://opencv.org, for JavaScript, http://www.uco.es/investiga/grupos/ava/node/26. It takes advantage of HTML5 browser capabilities getUserMedia (http://caniuse.com/stream) and WebGL (checkout Three.js, https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js) to enable desktop browsers to […]

HTML5: Separating Fact from Fiction

On Thursday, December 13, 2012 I gave the technical portion of the presentation on HTML5 development for the Verizon Developer Community HTML5: Separating Fact from Fiction Summary: App developers have kept a close watch on HTML5, with its promises of faster, easier development and cross-platform simplicity. Meanwhile, the technology has been slapped down by companies […]

HOW TO PORT YOUR PHONEGAP ANDROID APP TO BLACKBERRY 10

This page has all the resources you need to bring you PhoneGap Android application (no plugins allowed) to BlackBerry 10 phones. Modification of your UI will probably be necessary and possibly some adjustments to your code. Here are the links: Vendor Portal for BlackBerry App World Create your account https://appworld.blackberry.com/isvportal/login_input.do BlackBerry Keys Order Form Get […]

Snake Eyes Dice

For the first BlackBerry BB10 smartphone, aka London, I packaged a little dice game using WebWorks. Total time was 4 hours because I was able to use open source code and images. Special thanks to: Dado and Michael Eidson for them. The marketing blurb about it: “When you play a game of chance and skill, […]

Create a Mobile App in 30 Minutes!

Getting Started with PhoneGap and PhoneGap Build This is a brief overview of how to build mobile applications using the PhoneGap framework. Using a text editor and a web browser and a few images, a Hello LA PhoneGap application will be built You can download the project at http://laphonegap.org/HelloLAPhoneGap.zip

BB10 App for BlackBerry DevAlpha running SVG Animation created with Flash

BlackBerry10 DevAlpha running HTML5 SVG animation. Original artwork came from Flash Professional. Using Google’s Swiffy (https://www.google.com/doubleclick/studio/swiffy/gallery/example2.html), the .swf became svg which is embedded in the browser. httpv://youtu.be/zlT59I1xxWo

Speech to Text Platforms

Speech to Text Platforms AT&T http://developer.att.com/developer/apiDetailPage.jsp?passedItemId=10700023 An example of this in use: http://www.zukinimobile.com/speech Google http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/experimental.speechInput.html iSpeech https://www.ispeech.org/developers OneTok http://onetok.com

Rapid App Development for PhoneGap using OrionHub

I later discovered that OrionHub has an installable version you can run from the desktop. This would have helped me presentation go more smoothly.