My Team Manager is now on Blackberry10

My Team Manager (the application to manage your football teams and to communicate with your players) is now available also for Blackberry10.

Here is the features list:

- Manage more than one team

- Manage your roster and your players' info and statistics

- Rate your players performances and see the average rating

- Add your team's matches, the calls-up, the lineup and your personal notes, the results, the scorers. Share them with your players via  the team Facebook page, SMS or email

- Statistic section with team (segmented by competition) and players stats (top scorers, best goal average, best ratings average, match and training attendance)

- Indicate the type of the matches (league, cup, friendly, other) and use it to filter

- Add and manage your training sessions

- Manage training attendance

- Send any message via SMS, email or on your team's Facebook page

To have more information, contact us at myteammanagerservice@gmail.com

Available for download at http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/49071892/

RIM says bye bye to Java

One of the major subject at Blackberry Developer Conference in Amsterdam was the introduction to the new Blackberry OS 10. Well...there won't be Java in Blackberry 10.

There will be two main possibility to build applications on the new Blackberry OS versions:

• Use the new Cascade UI framework with QT libraries to build application with the new Native SDK;
• Use Webworks to build application using HTML 5 (having access to native features tough);

There is no clear reason about the decision that lead RIM to cut off Java from the next generation platforms, the speakers didn't give any valid feedback about that.

The funny thing is that Blacberry 10 will integrate an Android player to run Android application but there won't be any player for Blackberry OS 5, 6 or 7 applications.....

The Blackberry Appworld guide

Any application store has a different way to manage application, versions, supported device and so on...This fragmentation might become a nightmare for people in charge of managing delivery and maintenance of multiple applications across different platform.
For that reason it is really useful to have always in hand a document that help in discovering all the different aspects of the application stores and how to manage them

Often Blackberry is not the best and friendly platform for developers and product managers that want to deliver a state-of-art application but at least they don't forget to provide a document to drive people inside their application store.

Check this out: Click for AppWorld administration guide

The Blackberry devices different resolutions

I found the table below on a nice website (MobiMadness) and I think it worths share it with you. It lists the screen resolutions of the different Blackberry families:

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BlackBerry® 7100 Series	240 x 260 pixels	* Icon layout: 60 x 55 pixels * Zen layout: 48 x 36 pixels
BlackBerry® Pearl™ 8100 Series	240 x 260 pixels	* Icon layout: 60 x 55 pixels * Zen layout: 48 x 36 pixels
BlackBerry® Pearl™ Flip Series	240 x 320 pixels	46 x 46 pixels
BlackBerry® 8700 Series	320 x 240 pixels	* Icon layout: 53 x 48 pixels * Zen layout: 48 x 36 pixels
BlackBerry® 8800 Series	320 x 240 pixels	* Icon layout: 53 x 48 pixels * Zen layout: 48 x 36 pixels
BlackBerry® Curve™ 8300 Series	320 x 240 pixels	* Icon layout: 53 x 48 pixels * Zen layout: 48 x 36 pixels
BlackBerry® Curve™ 8350i smartphone	320 x 240 pixels	52 x 52 pixels
BlackBerry® Curve™ 8520 smartphone	320 x 240 pixels	52 x 52 pixels
BlackBerry® Bold™ Series	480 x 320 pixels	80 x 80 pixels
BlackBerry® Curve™ 8900 smartphone	480 x 360 pixels	80 x 80 pixels
BlackBerry® Storm™ Series	portrait view: 360 x 480 pixels portrait view with keyboard: 360 x 247 pixels landscape view: 480 x 360 pixels landscape view with keyboard: 480 x 156 pixels	73 x 73 pixels
BlackBerry® Tour™ 9630 smartphone	480 x 360 pixels	80 x 80 pixels

Blackberry: place a field at the bottom of a screen

When you need to place a field at the bottom of your application screen you can use the setStatus method in the Screen object.
That will keep your field anchored at the bottom even if the rest of the screen is scrolling.

See this question on Stackoverflow

Navigate the Blackberry screen stack

You need sometimes to know which screens are in the screens stack of your Blackberry application maybe because you want to remove all the screen below a specific screen because they are not needed anymore.

First of all you can get the active screen using the instruction:

UiApplication.getUiApplication.getActiveScreen();

Once you have the screen object you can call on it the method:

getScreenBelow()

you will get the screen object below. Generally you can move along the stack using also the method

getScreenAbove()

used together with the previous getScreenBelow method.