Unlike the iPad, the BlackBerry PlayBook has rather poor international keyboard support, with no method for entering chinese characters. I like the way iOS achieves this, so went about building my own version in ActionScript. Continue reading Chinese Handwriting Recognition App
Category Archives: Mobile
iPad smoothness for iPad
I’d recently been playing around with packaging AIR for iOS, to run on my iPad. While the performance has been improved massively since CS5 Packager, it’s still not great in AIR 2.6. It seems that AIR 2.7 brings with it some great performance enhancements – though I’ll reserve judgement until I’ve tried it myself – check out the article and video here.
ScratchPad – BlackBerry app
My ScratchPad app for Blackberry Playbook is now live. It’s a simple drawing app where you can export your creations to the image gallery. When the BlackBerry Playbook launched, there was nothing like this available, so I created it 🙂 If the Playbook does well, I’ll be creating more apps for the platform – it’s certainly a nice piece of hardware and BlackBerry OS is easy enough to work with.
A winner is me
So, in my first steps in tablet development, I cracked out a simple app for the new Blackberry Playbook and got a free Playbook! It’s a very nice piece of hardware. You can see my app (a very simple doodling application, called ScratchPad) here.
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