Audiobook Reader for BlackBerry BB10

For past some time I was working on porting my Audiobook Reader application to BlackBerry BB10 platform.

Application is quite similar to Meego version, though there are few feature missing in BB10 which are available on Meego version. I thought I will work on that once I have some feedback from existing version. So if you have installed and have some feedback kindly provide those.

Application is available both as free version and paid version. Feature wise both version are same, only difference is free version is ad sponsored.

Here is live demo on BB10 dev alpha device.


Here are few snapshot of application for BB10.

Hope you will like the application.

Preventing display dimming in BB10 with Qt

Recently I was creating an application for BB10, where I need to disable display dimming. This same approach also works to avoid auto lock.

There is already API for this if you are using cascades API.

Following should do for Cascades Application

//for C++
Application::mainWindow->screenIdleMode = ScreenIdleMode::KeepAwake;

//for QML, we need to use constant as it seems required enum is not exported properly
Application.mainWindow.screenIdleMode = 1

But my application was pure Qt application. For this I required to use native API. Following is code which i used to achieve desired behavior.

        QScopedPointer view(new QDeclarativeView());
        view->setSource(QUrl("app/native/assets/main.qml"));
        view->showFullScreen();

 int idle_mode = SCREEN_IDLE_MODE_KEEP_AWAKE;
 WId winId = view->winId();
 screen_set_window_property_iv(screen_window_t(winId), SCREEN_PROPERTY_IDLE_MODE,&idle_mode);

You will need to add following headers.

#include <bps/bps.h>
#include <bps/navigator.h>
#include <bps/screen.h>

And need to link screen library.

LIBS += -lscreen