WebWorks Kitchen Sink

The purpose of this application is to demonstrate the multitude of capabilities and functionality (everything but the "kitchen sink") that can be built into a BlackBerry WebWorks application.

Look and Feel

• User Interface

  - Design your app to look the way you want it to
• HTML Form Fields Collect information from users
• Fonts Use standard or custom fonts
• Media Query Single CSS for multiple screen dimensions
• Viewport Virtual rendering area for Web content
• Screen Dimensions Detect page width & height
• Orientation Detect when page layout changes
• Fixed Toolbars Static header and footer
• Scrollable DIVs Scroll content without scrolling page
• Fixed position elements Elements remain in place during scrolling

• User Experience

  - Make your content more enjoyable / easier to use.
• User Agent Detect what browser your users have
• Input Types Associates virtual keyboard variant with input fields
• Dialog API Manipulate system dialog boxes.
• Menu API Manipulate menu items for the application.
• Use of whitespace Give users enough space for interaction
• Progress indicator Display progress while events processing
• Transformations Move, scale and rotate in 2D or 3D
• Animations Use animation to provide visual feedback
• Window object Represents an open window in a browser.
• Web Notifications Update system icon tray

• User Input

  - Respond to physical user input.
• Touch Events Respond to Touch events (start, move, end)
• Swipe Gestures Transform touch events into swipe gestures
• Keyboard events Listen for key press events
• Accelerometer Measure the 3D motion of a physical device
• Pinch To Zoom Control default pinch-to-zoom behavior

• Graphics

  - Provide amazing visual effects.
• Flash Use Flash content in your app
• Canvas Use HTML5 canvas content

Functionality

• Storage

  - Memory or file system
• Directory API Interact with directories on the file system.
• File API Interact with files on the file system.
• LocalStorage & SessionStorage Save key/value string pairs in memory
• Web Database Relational database storage (SQLlite)
• Application Cache Automatic offline storage for remote content
• File Reader Read file details from local system
• Upload a file Transfer a local file to remote Web server
• Multimedia
• Audio API Listing of supported audio functionality
• Audio Player API Plays audio using Java extension.
• Audio Play audio natively through web engine
• Video Play video natively through web engine
• Device Harware Access
• Camera API Use camera to capture pictures and videos
• Microphone API Record audio from the microphone
• Geolocation Get GPS coordinates (HTML5 solution)
• GPS Get GPS coordinates (legacy BlackBerry solution)
• Device OS Integration
• Application API Application level Functions and attributes
• Application Events API Access events triggered by the application
• System API System level functions and attributes
• System Events API Access events triggered by the system
• Identity API BlackBerry Smartphone user and account information
• Invoke API Launch external applications
• URI schemes URI schemes supported by the Web engine
• Navigator object Provides information about the current platform
• MIME How to open 3rd party file MIME types
• Phone Information about active BlackBerry Smartphone phone accounts.
• Network Connectivity
• Web Sockets Two-way communication with a remote host
• Network Connectivity Detect whether network connection is active
• Protocols Protocols supported by the Web engine
• Carrier Network Information about active carrier network
• 3rd Party Frameworks
• Twitter Web APIs Integrate your Web content with Twitter
• Performance
• Web Workers Multi-thread JavaScript processing
• DHTML Update HTML dynamically after page load
• XmlHttpRequest Asynchronous HTTP requests from client
• CSS Sprites Reduce HTTP requests for image resources
• Typed Arrays Fast access to binary data arrays

Testing

• BlackBerry
• Ripple Mobile emulator for BlackBerry Smartphone and PlayBook
• Web Inspector Full suite of debugging and profiling tools
• 3rd Party
• JSConsole Remote debugging of console.log statements
• Firebug Lite Lightweight version of Firebug browser plugin
• Weinre Web Inspector Remote server