RIM Taking Android Development Seriously with FREE PlayBooks
It was tweeted by Alec Saunders that Android Developers who submit their app to AppWorld, and then email [email protected] can get a FREE PlayBook. We saw RIM Do this a little over a year ago before the PlayBook was released with BlackBerry Developers, and it looks like they are doing their best to lure in…
Cascades UI Engine and Qt Application Framework Being Covered at DevCon Europe
It looks like we definitely will not be seeing the Cascades User Interface Engine and Qt application framework come out of closed NDA beta before DevCon Europe. As I mentioned before both the Cascades UI Engine and Qt framework are key to more native SDK apps (instead of games) for BlackBerry 10 with a consistent…
BBM Social Platform SDK v1.3 for Java Released to Developers
Its nice to seem RIM is steadily improving the BBM Social Platform SDK which was released officially in June of last year. They just announced v1.3 for Java developers which adds a key ingredient of allowing applications to determine how they were invoked from within BBM. In other words now devs can see if users…
RIM Makes BlackBerry Theme Studio Hack Officially Unofficial (for Now)
I assumed it would come to this since BlackBerry Theme Studio for OS 7.0 is not planned to be released for a few months now. @BlackBerryDev said they were going to post “Full details for Themes on BB7” this month and Garett has followed through with part one of instructions on how to create themes…
RIM Asking Android Devs to Submit PlayBook Apps by February 6th
First RIM asked PlayBook devs to test their apps for PlayBook OS 2.0 and submit new versions by Feb 7th to make it before the OS 2.0 launch. Now they have reached out to Android Devs on the DevBlog asking them to submit Android apps for PlayBook OS 2.0 by February 6th to ensure that…
Free VendorTool Offers App World Vendors Mobile Reports & Statistics
QuiteSimple has released an interesting new application called VendorTool. The free app pulls BlackBerry App World Reports and Statistics for App World vendors on their BlackBerry smartphones. Right now the interface and app are pretty simplistic but the idea is very cool. I have been telling RIM for ages that they need to offer…
Register for “Porting webOS to BlackBerry WebWorks” Amsterdam Hackathon & Win Big! (Feb 6th)
BlackBerry DevCon Europe in Amsterdam starts on February 7th but ddluk let us know that there is a great hackathon before the event. They are organizing a Hackathon the day before DevCon Europe on “Porting HP webOS applications to BlackBerry WebWorks platform” now that HP has open sourced Enyo. The event is hosted by BlackBerry…
Devs: RIM Releases Quake3 Engine Port Source Code for PlayBook
RIM has been using a port they did of the Quake3 (id tech 3) engine they made to show off some of the BlackBerry PlayBooks gaming capabilities since January of 2011 (CES). I questioned back then when we would see a public Quake port for the PlayBook and it looks like we just got one…