Devs Don’t Forget To Integrate BlackBerry Messenger in your BlackBerry 10 App
Quite a few top tier BlackBerry apps got a nice boost when RIM first introduced their BlackBerry Messenger Social Platform SDK. This allowed third party developers to plug into the BlackBerry infrastructure and use it for peer to peer communication and sharing. RIM is promising more on this front for BlackBerry 10 but they have…
RIM Opens Limited Pre-Event Development Training for BlackBerry Jam Asia 2012
BlackBerry Jam Asia 2012 is happening in 30 days in Bangkok, Thailand! For those of you planning on making it to the conference RIM just upped the ante a bit. They are offering up some limited pre-event development training on BlackBerry WebWorks or Cascades/Native SDK for the two days before the event. The WebWorks training…
Meet the BlackBerry Developer Relations Team Around the World
RIM has really made a herculean effort to revamp their developer relations in the past two years. One of their best moves was a large expansion of their developer relations team along with opening them up beyond RIM’s developer alliance program. That is why I found it so refreshing when Don told me about a…
RIM’s Free Marmalade SDK Offer For Developers Closed Due to “Exceptional Demand”
Its nice to see developers taking advantage of the incentives RIM is using to ignite development for BlackBerry 10. Just over a month ago they announced a program for developers to receive a free copy of the Marmalade SDK along with a free BlackBerry PlayBook if they develop and release their app on BlackBerry App…
Three Built for BlackBerry 10 Developer Webcasts Next Week
RIM is empowering BlackBerry 10 developers and helping train them by hitting hard with free BlackBerry 10 development webinars. The latest series focuses on the new “Built for BlackBerry 10” developer program that is part of their $10,000 developer commitment. This webinar series focuses on just that with the first one starting November 6th discussing…
Devs: RIM Opens The Door for Building BlackBerry 10 WebWorks Directly from Github
While this will not change how most WebWorks developers work this is a nice step forward for RIM. They have promised to allow us to build WebWorks from Github for awhile now and they have come through as promised. This means if a developer sees a new update, improvement, or feature addition in the…
Devs: Adobe Reader Mobile SDK for EPUB DRM Now Available for PlayBook & BlackBerry 10
This is a nice addition for any developer thinking of creating a EPUB reader for the PlayBook or BlackBerry 10. RIM has announced that the Adobe Reader Mobile SDK for EPUB DRM (Digital Rights Management) is now supported on the PlayBook and BlackBerry 10. The Adobe Reader Mobile SDK is used by quite a few…
RIM’s BBUI.js Javascript Framework Updated to v0.9.4
The web team at RIM has scored again with a new update to the awesome BBUI.js framework. The new version gives us some nice updates both for BlackBerry 10 and PlayBook developers. There are not that many changes that need to be done to support the new version but here are the notable improvements:…