Devs: RIM Hosting Twitterview on PlayBook Adobe AIR Development Tomorrow
RIM has been running some interesting Twitterview sessions over the last few months. Their last one covered WebWorks and Java development and the next one tomorrow is going to cover building apps for the BlackBerry PlayBook using Adobe AIR. This Twitterview will have Duane Nickull, Sr. Technical Evangelist and Renaun Erickson, Developer Evangelist from Adobe…
Survey Finds BlackBerry Developers Make More Money Relative to Android & iOS Devs
A study published yesterday by Evans Data from their biannual Application Distribution survey of 400 developers led to some interesting results. The survey obviously found that developers biggest complaint is visibility for their apps in flooded app stores. They also found that games tend to be the most common “App” though what was truly interesting…
RIM Throwing 9 More BBM Apps Hackathons Including International Cities!
I was impressed by the first BBM Apps Hackathon RIM threw in NYC and they promised to have more. @AlexKinsella pointed out that they have followed up on that promise with the announcement of NINE new Hackathons in the US, Canada, and around the world. Here is a list of the events:
Most Innovative BlackBerry WebWorks App Winners Announced
The BlackBerry Partners Fund has announced the winners of the Most Innovative BlackBerry WebWorks app category in the 2011 BlackBerry Developers Challenge. These winners were selected from both BlackBerry Smartphone and PlayBook apps. They selected a grand prize winner and two runner ups for each of the three regions and here are the winners:
Devs: RIM Adds Wi-Fi Geolocation Service for Location-Aware Apps
RIM improved their location services that they offer devs this month with the addition of Wi-Fi geolocation. Originally devs had to use GPS to find your location and then RIM added the ability to get your location from cell phone towers (Cell Site Geolocation) a year ago. Now devs can also get your location based…
Devs: BlackBerry Payment Service v1.5 Released
RIM just released v1.5 of their Payment Service SDK which is an update to the original that launched in January. This SDK allows devs to perform in app purchases through App World. This new v1.5 allows for auto renewing subscriptions for apps and in application digital goods. In other words think of subscribing to the…
Dev Explains Why Marmalade SDK is Great for Cross Platform Games & Apps
I have been really loving the Marmalade SDK since it was released with beta support for the BlackBerry PlayBook. To me it really is a sign of what is to come with the other engines RIM is bringing to the PlayBook including the Unity game engine and Android/Java Players. DrMop of VisualDreams does a great…
BellShare Starts UserVoice Forum for User Feedback – All Devs Should Do This!
Jack let us know that BellShare has launched a new feedback and feature voting tool powered by UserVoice. This lets users make suggestions and feature requests for BellShare’s apps. I am a huge fan of their BerryReader app and this is our chance to make it better. UserVoice lets anybody post feedback or suggestions for…