Cascades Workshop (Basic) 3 Days

You want to create astonishing APPs with BlackBerry10 Cascades ?

This 3-day-workshop will help you to start. You should have knowledge HowTo develop mobile applications, doesn’t matter if this was Android, BlackBerry Java, iOS or Web/HTML5. You don’t need knowledge in C++, Qt, QML, Cascades – we start from the beginning.

Attention: this workshop is a code-hacking workshop ! No lazy days watching slides 😉

Basic Workshop – Day 1

• Setup and Intro
  • Native Cascades SDK
  • Simulator
  • Code Signing Keys
  • Devices – Debug Tokens
  • PhotoShop PlugIn
• Momentics IDE
  • Preferences
  • important Views
  • Wizards
  • HowTo work with (compared with Eclipse Java IDE)
  • Cascades Project Structure
• File Structure
  • Sandbox
  • Shared
  • Runtime vs Debugging
  • copy to/from while development
• IDE and SDK
  • HowTo deal with GOLD and BETA IDE Versions
  • different SDKs (whats the right target ?)
• Cascades UI / UX Guidelines
  • first overview (more details in the Experts Workshop)
• Introduction Frameworks and Language
  • C++
  • Qt
  • Cascades
  • QML
  • Javascript
• Introduction Cascades UI
  • Core Components
  • Panes (Tabbed, Navigation)
  • Pages
  • Sheets
• Hurra: the first APP
  • Project Wizards
  • Build and Run
  • Verify what we learned before
  • From Photoshop to Cascades
• Developer Support
  • Cascades Forum
  • Twitter
• Good to know (Samples and more)
  • Cascades Samples at GitHub
  • Community Samples at GitHub
  • Qt – Cascades Samples at Github
  • other important projects at GitHub
  • HowTo use the OSS Samples in Momentics IDE
• Logging and SSH Console
• Coming from Java (whats different, whats similar)
  • for Android Developers
  • for BlackBerry OS 7 Developers
• Discussion

Basic Workshop – Day 2

• Designing a Cascades Application
  • Navigation
  • Layout
  • UI Elements
  • Icons, Images
  • Application Menu
  • Covers (minimized View)
  • Functions
  • async Nature
• Screen Sizes and Orientation
  • Z10 APPs (768×1280) Landscape / Portrait
  • Q10 APPs (720×720)
  • Keyboard handling (virtual, physical)
• Release Management
  • different Screensizes
  • Touch and Keyboard Devices
  • Asset Management
  • different releases (10.0, 10.1, Beta, …)
  • Git Branching Models
• We create a Cascades Application
  • Manifest
  • Permissions
  • Theming (light vs dark)
  • Actions
  • Titlebar
  • Pages
  • attached Objects
  • NavigationPane (Stack of Pages)
  • TabbedPane (TABs)
  • Sheets
  • Orientation Support (Portrait, Landscape)
  • Application Menu (Help, Settings, Feedback and more)
  • ListView
  • Text, Labels
  • Images, ImageTracker
  • Picker
• Deploying, Running, Testing the APP
  • Simulator
  • real Devices
• BlackBerry FLOW
  • Peek or not to peek
• Animations
  • implicit, explicit
  • transformations, fading
  • sequential, parallel
  • in the background ?
• Touch and Gestures
  • Events
• Developing Crossplatform
  • Android 4 Navigation concept vs. BlackBerry 10
• Discussion

Basic Workshop – Day 3

• QML vs C++
  • C++ –> QML
  • QML –> C++
• Qt Goodies
  • Signals and Slots – the way to connect objects
  • Settings
  • Singletons
  • Files
  • Parents
  • ENUMs
• Data Sources + Persistence I
  • JSON
  • XML
• ListView
  • Standard
  • Customized
  • Context
  • Multiselection
  • Access data and functions
• GroupedDataModel
  • QML vs C++
  • DataBinding
  • CRUD
  • where are my (Java) Beans ?
  • dynamically change Propertie Values
  • Tip: UUID
• Networking I
  • HTTP, HTTPS
  • request – response – async
• Internationalization
  • QML
  • C++
  • configuration
  • translating / editing
• Invocation Framework I
  • Overview
  • PIM (Calendar, Contacts, Mails)
  • Browser
  • BlackBerry World
  • MediaPlayer
  • FilePicker
• BlackBerry World
  • Vendor Portal
  • HowTo Publish APP
  • Sandbox
• Discussion

Cascades Experts Workshop

You can combine both Workshops: Basic and Experts

HowTo book this workshop

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