Development Fundamentals

Learn more about some of the common and not-so-common development tasks you might encounter as you create your app. Get to know the UI guidelines, coding best practices, supported web standards, and more.

Accessing external resources

Learn how to set secure permissions, so your app can safely connect to remote files and web sites.

Find out more about the access element ›

Best practices

Learn about best practices for mobile web development with Javascript, CSS, and HTML.

Check out some mobile web best practices ›

Community frameworks

Learn how to use existing JavaScript frameworks, libraries, and toolkits to get the most out of your WebWorks apps.

Check out the supported frameworks ›

Developing custom extensions

Extend the functionality of your app to include features and functions provided by native APIs by creating custom extensions.

Learn more about extensions ›

Focus-based navigation on non-touch devices

Find out how to best utilize the trackpad, so that users with non-touch devices can more easily navigate your app.

Learn more about focus-based navigation ›

Porting from PlayBook to BlackBerry 10

Learn the differences between the BlackBerry PlayBook OS and the BlackBerry 10 OS to help you port your application.

Learn the details about porting ›

Supported web standards

Learn what web standards are supported by the BlackBerry Browser and BlackBerry WebWorks applications.

View the web reference guides ›

UI guidelines

View the UI design guidelines to learn how to create beautiful apps for every BlackBerry device.

Learn more about UI guidelines ›

Using WebWorks APIs

Discover how to put BlackBerry WebWorks APIs to work in your app.

Learn to use the code ›