Tutorial: Create the Keyboard application

In this tutorial, we'll show you how to use the glview library and OpenGL ES to capture and process input from the virtual keyboard of your BlackBerry 10 device and to render graphics to the screen.

We'll walk through the Keyboard sample app, which creates a colored square and a virtual keyboard and lets you use the virtual keyboard to:

  • show or hide the keyboard
  • switch keyboard layout
  • rotate the displayed square
  • change the rotation speed of the square
You can take the concepts you learn here to build keyboard handlers to control your applications. The Keyboard app is available for download here.

keyboard_app_sample

You will learn to:

  • Configure your project
  • Show the virtual keyboard
  • Process keyboard input