Yesterday I presented a hands-on training session at 360|Flex on developing AIR applications for the BlackBerry PlayBook. The session focused on two major areas: getting the tools set up for development, and using the QNX UI components and framework. (I hardly talked about Flex development for PlayBook at all, since that’s fairly similar to Flex for Android etc.)
As part of the session we walked through building a PlayBook application. The app was adapted from an example created by Renaun Erickson – big thanks to Renaun for sharing that.
Here are the application files:
- PDF step-by-step instructions
- Starting state project files (includes the images and a couple of event classes pre-built so you don’t have to.
- Finished version of the application
During the presentation I also showed and talked about a few other open-source examples and projects that are useful for developing with the QNX UI framework. Here are links to those resources:
- All the PlayBook components (except lists) by Mihai Corlan
- QNX list components by Mihai Corlan
- QMXML: Using MXML with QNX components by Renaun Erickson
- Using QMXML and the as3viewnavigator by Renaun Erickson