RIM Gives an Update on PlayBook Developer Offer – 6,225 Apps Submitted
RIM’s offer of a free BlackBerry PlayBook to developers who submit PlayBook apps to App World is almost over. We have been getting reports from developers who are in many different stages of the approval process asking if there were any updates and thankfully RIM has finally offered one. My buddy Alex Kinsella broke down…
Carrier Billing Accounts for 34% of App World Paid Downloads
RIM released some more numbers around BlackBerry App World at MWC that get very interesting if you compare them with their previous announcement earlier this week. In a slide deck at MWC Peter Valin, Sr Marketing Manager of BlackBerry App World at RIM, showed a breakdown of global paid downloads by payment type. The…
RIM Lays Out BlackBerry Platform Roadmap – BB10 to Add Super App Capabilities
During a presentation at MWC Tim Neil, RIMs Director of Application Platform & Tools Product Management (Here at Slide 26), laid out a platform roadmap for BlackBerry ranging from BlackBerry OS 7 through the PlayBook to BlackBerry 10. This is the first time I have seen anything in writing from RIM about this and…
Hurry! Free PlayBooks for BlackBerry Developers Promotion Ends March 2nd
RIM extended their promotion offering free BlackBerry PlayBooks to developers who submitted BlackBerry PlayBook apps but that new deadline is fast approaching. Developers must submit their apps by March 2nd to be considered. The extended dates required developers to register as an App World Vendor by February 15th so if you have not done so…
Scoreloop SDK 1.0 Now Available for PlayBook OS 2.0
Along with bringing the PlayBook Native SDK to v2.0 RIM has also brought their acquired Scoreloop social gaming SDK to v1.0. That means the new cross platform social gaming ecosystem with over 120 million users is now out of beta for PlayBook OS 2.0. What this does is allow developers to focus on improving gameplay…
BlackBerry Native SDK v2.0 Out of Beta
RIM let us know that they have pushed the BlackBerry Native SDK v2.0 for the PlayBook out of beta for all developers. This new version adds some new APIs (sound, device info, & LED) but not the super app APIs (email, contacts, calendar) I was hoping for. They have also improved the IDE along with…
RIM Shares Fundamentals Guide for Using jQuery with WebWorks on BlackBerry
Erik O from RIM’s Developer Relations Team shared a new fundamentals guide that RIM has created for WebWorks developers. This new guide seems to cover everything from the basic jQuery knowledge of what the framework does to getting a hello world app created from the provided sample. It has something for beginning devs to intermediate…
RIM Releases Analytics Service WebWorks Extension for Smartphones
RIM released their useful analytics service awhile back but limited to Java developers on BlackBerry smartphones. Now a member of RIM’s developer relations team, Tim Windsor, has released a new WebWorks extension for smartphone app developers to track analytics. That means devs can use it to track events like clicks and purchases and everything in…