BlackBerry Curve 9310 Simulator Available – RIM Asks Devs to Prepare Apps
Its no big secret that RIM was working on a BlackBerry Curve 9310 and now it is official. They have announced the specs on the BlackBerry DevBlog and emailed all developers asking them to prepare their apps. Devs will have to login and specifically confirm their apps support the device. Due to similarities with the…
Top Dev Motek Mobile Shares Their Experience With BlackBerry Development
Motek Mobile is a top BlackBerry developer with apps like Screen Muncher, Color ID, and more. They just sat down with Jesse Ariss (@jesseariss) on the BlackBerry dev blog and shared some of their experiences with BlackBerry development currently and over the years. I was impressed to learn that Motek sees a daily average of 150,000…
BlackBerry Joins the App Alliance & Encourages Devs to Follow
The Application Developers Alliance (ADA) nonprofit started out at CES 2012 this January and has since signed on some nice partners. The ADA was designed to help developers organize while generating revenue for their services from sponsors and membership fees. Their main industry backer seems to have been AT&T but now RIM has added themselves…
Reminder: Second Cascades UI Development Webinar Tomorrow Morning
If you have been listening in to RIM’s webinars on Cascades you should know that they are kicking off the second episode of the series tomorrow. We mentioned the webinar last week when it was announced so consider this a friendly reminder. It is titled the “Astonishing UIs using the new BlackBerry 10 framework continued.”…
More BlackBerry 10 Jam Seats Opened in Bangalore, Delhi, and Jakarta
If you tried signing up for the BlackBerry 10 Jam World Tour in Asia Pacific you may have seen that they were sold out quickly. RIM just posted up that they have added more seats to conference in Bangalore (July 2), Delhi (July 4), and Jakarta (July 10). There is still a limited availability so…
More Confirmation That RIM Will Disable & Replace Dev Alpha’s After Launch
While we were at BlackBerry 10 Jam 2012 in Orlando RIM mentioned that they will be replacing the BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha devices they were distributing. The catch was you had to submit a BlackBerry 10 app to App World and then you were eligible for a special edition BlackBerry 10 device at launch. Lucas…
Devs: Second Cascades UI Development Webinar Starts Next Week
This week RIM kicked off their first webinar on the Cascades SDK in BlackBerry 10. They are still doing some reruns this week but starting next week they are moving on. I received an email about a new webinar next week titled “Astonishing UIs using the new BlackBerry 10 framework continued.” This is a deeper…
BlackBerry 10 Jam World Tour New York Recap
Over a hundred people gathered in the Millennium Broadway Hotel in Midtown Manhattan this Tuesday as RIM brought its BlackBerry 10 Jam Tour to New York. The tour, which was making its seventh stop (out of a scheduled 23), was designed to acquaint developers with the new BlackBerry 10 (due out later this year) so…