Galaxy on Fire 2 HD blazing onto BlackBerry PlayBook
Game developer Fish Labs showed off a spectacular game, Galaxy on Fire 2 HD, during the BlackBerry 10 Jam keynote as a demonstration of how easy it is to port to PlayBook. It took them less than a day, and, in one case, only 3 lines of code to enable key features. This is…
Visualization of BlackBerry 10 API & Core Package Framework
One of the main things I have been waiting to see from RIM in terms of BlackBerry 10 development is the API access they will be giving developers. RIM gave us a bit more insight into that and you can dig into what is currently available on RIM’s developers sites. They did post up two…
BlackBerry 10 Jam Conference Going On World Tour! Check the List
Couldn’t make it to BlackBerry 10 Jam in Orlando this week? While on stage Alec Saunders confirmed that BlackBerry 10 Jam is going on a World Tour with 1 day sessions in many cities in different countries. They will be introducing the tools and hopefully also be seeding more PlayBooks and BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha…
Devs: Submit A BB10 App, Trade Your Alpha Device In For A Limited-Edition BB10 Device At Release
This year’s BlackBerry World is very much geared toward selling developers on the BB10 platform. RIM is really throwing themselves at the feet of the developer community. Let’s face it, with the developers, BB10 goes nowhere, and RIM goes bye-bye. RIM. Needs. Developers. They absolutely have to secure buy-in on BB10, and they know it….
BBUI.js HTML5 User Interface Framework Updated for BlackBerry 10
RIM has updated the popular BBUI.js framework that developers use to mimic the user interface elements on BlackBerry OS 5-7 and the PlayBook. The new update adds support for BlackBerry 10 UI elements that act almost exactly like the Cascades UI elements so HTML5 and Native Cascades app share the same UI elements. This is…
BlackBerry 10 Jam Live Blog
Here we go, folks, stay tuned and hit that F5 key! Alec Saunders music video, “The Waiting Is The Hardest Part.” Brilliant. “Bring your code to the BlackBerry platform. Don’t be one of the huddled masses eking out a living from AdSense. In the last fiscal year, the number of app vendors in BlackBerry up…
First Look at BB10 with a Sneak Peek Video
There is a of Buzz going around this morning with BlackBerry World starting. Here is a video to make everyone not there a little more excited, a video that was used by Thorsten Heins to show off what BB10 has to come! I personally think the predictive text will be a huge asset to us…
Find or Start a BlackBerry Developer Group In Your Area
Over the last year or so RIM has been pushing hard to develop an ecosystem of BlackBerry developer groups around the world. That has lead to RIM now having almost 35+ developer groups from Chicago to Cairo and Kharkiv to Buenos Aires. RIM lists all of these developer groups on their website here along with…