Make your own web launcher app - (Any Site Launcher for the BlackBerry PlayBook)
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Any Site Launcher for the BlackBerry� PlayBook™ allows you to create a short-cut launcher that opens any site of your choice in its own browser window! This allows you to browse between two different webpage at the same time (by using this app and the native web browser).
Side Note: Currently there is no 'back' button in this app.
This app is currently available in BlackBerry App World for $0.99
Please feel free to send me a message on twitter or PM if you have any questionsLast edited by ignites; 06-27-12 at 05:49 PM.
LimeTripBlog likes this.06-25-12 01:12 AMLike 1 -
No u use the app icon and it auto launches any web page you design for it to go to. Currently QNX apis do not allow you to modify or add to existing icons list06-25-12 12:15 PMLike 0 - Wait, you're charging for this? That seems a little ridiculous. I don't know exactly how it works, as I won't pay for an app like this, but I'd assume you put some file on the PB's storage, and then when the app is loaded it'll get the URL from that file and load it. (Possibly put an HTML file at a set location, with a built in redirect to another site, and the user changes the site it redirects to, and the app just loads the HTML file). What I do know is it would take approximately five minutes to make an app like this, even for someone like myself who knows next to no coding.06-25-12 12:27 PMLike 0
- Wait, you're charging for this? That seems a little ridiculous. I don't know exactly how it works, as I won't pay for an app like this, but I'd assume you put some file on the PB's storage, and then when the app is loaded it'll get the URL from that file and load it. (Possibly put an HTML file at a set location, with a built in redirect to another site, and the user changes the site it redirects to, and the app just loads the HTML file). What I do know is it would take approximately five minutes to make an app like this, even for someone like myself who knows next to no coding.06-25-12 05:17 PMLike 0
- A custom icon for each website would be great for example, if I want to bookmark youtube can the app make an youtube icon. But i guess this will be difficult to implement. It would be helpful if we could atleast write custom name inside the star icon that you mentioned.06-25-12 10:03 PMLike 0
- A custom icon for each website would be great for example, if I want to bookmark youtube can the app make an youtube icon. But i guess this will be difficult to implement. It would be helpful if we could atleast write custom name inside the star icon that you mentioned.06-25-12 10:35 PMLike 0
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- 06-26-12 12:51 AMLike 0
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For a Next buut you use history.go(1)
Jeroen06-26-12 04:12 AMLike 0 -
And as the developer said, you are wrong about the first half of your post
EDIT: To be clear, I'm not slating the app. I'm just saying I don't think it should be charged for.06-26-12 07:46 AMLike 0 - I have made applications to load certain websites in the manner this one does in seconds. Yeah, they can't be changed what site they load, but they have custom icons and splash screen and app name. I could easily make an app to load an HTML file from internal storage, and have that HTML page redirect to another site instantly. Maybe not quite as advanced as this (no error checking), but I could certainly get a very similar end result in a very short time.
And as the developer said, you are wrong about the first half of your post
EDIT: To be clear, I'm not slating the app. I'm just saying I don't think it should be charged for.
I'm not slating you, Sif, just saying that Ignites is a great dev, I have copies of free apps because of him (his first ever, I believe, and i pitched in on a couple initial tweaks) and I think he SHOULD charge for it!
Really, not being snarky or confrontational, but why come into this thread and say something like that?06-26-12 08:08 AMLike 0 - BOOOOOO . . . hissssssss . . . . BOOOOOOOOOO!
I'm not slating you, Sif, just saying that Ignites is a great dev, I have copies of free apps because of him (his first ever, I believe, and i pitched in on a couple initial tweaks) and I think he SHOULD charge for it!
Really, not being snarky or confrontational, but why come into this thread and say something like that?06-26-12 10:28 AMLike 0 - You can make a menubar (solid) and place the window (that a user wants to be opened) in an Iframe. Than you can make a working menubar / back button: code for back button: <button onclick="javascript:history.go(-1)">back</button>
For a Next buut you use history.go(1)
Jeroen06-26-12 08:34 PMLike 0 - I just don't want people getting ripped off. If people want to pay for it, that's fine. I just want to let them know it doesn't take long to create an app like this Clearly people don't want to hear anything negative being said about anything, feel free to ignore this and all other posts by me in this thread.06-27-12 02:08 PMLike 0
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- Wait, you're charging for this? That seems a little ridiculous. I don't know exactly how it works, as I won't pay for an app like this, but I'd assume you put some file on the PB's storage, and then when the app is loaded it'll get the URL from that file and load it. (Possibly put an HTML file at a set location, with a built in redirect to another site, and the user changes the site it redirects to, and the app just loads the HTML file). What I do know is it would take approximately five minutes to make an app like this, even for someone like myself who knows next to no coding.
Somebody sat down and wrote it and is trying recoup the time invested.Last edited by Blackberry_boffin; 06-27-12 at 06:12 PM.
FF22 likes this.06-27-12 04:59 PMLike 1
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