BlackBerry Developer Gets Hit with Lodsys In App Payment Patent Lawsuit
The patent wars have once again made their way into the BlackBerry ecosystem. Both Apple and Google along with many of their developers are being sued by Lodsys who owns a patent for “in app payment methods.” Originally when Lodsys (who makes nothing useful aka Patent Troll) starting suing they were aiming for payments that…
Marmalade Cross Platform SDK (Visual C++) Adds BlackBerry PlayBook Beta Support!
This one somehow slipped under my radar. Marmalade (used to be called AirPlay) is an awesome cross platform SDK that allows developers to create apps and games in Visual C++ and have them run on multiple platforms. Right now they are supporting Apple iOS, Android, Symbian, Bada, WebOS and now the BlackBerry PlayBook in beta…
Perfecto Mobile Offering 2 Hours of Testing for Devs on BlackBerry 7 Devices
Perfecto Mobile has put up a new offer for BlackBerry devs giving them 2 hours of free access to their MobileCloud platform. While not as much as the 30 free hours they offered previously this lets developers test their apps on real BlackBerrys which are live on mobile networks around the world. Devs can then…
Devs: BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet OS Graphical Aid App Now Supports WebWorks
We told you back in July that RIM released a graphic UI tool for BlackBerry PlayBook AIR devs to easily sign and build apps. Ofutur let us know that RIM has just extended to tool to also work for BlackBerry PlayBook WebWorks developers. It provides developers an alternative to the command line tools RIM provided…
BlackBerry Development – A Developer’s Perspective
Don Turner is programmer and founder of UK based app development company Chonk Limited and the MusicRoom BlackBerry app. I was honoured to be asked by BerryReview to write an article on what it’s like to be a BlackBerry developer. I have been a Java programmer for 14 years, and developing specifically for BlackBerry for…
Apply for RIMs Native SDK for the BlackBerry PlayBook Closed Beta!
I know quite a few devs who cannot wait to get their hands on the native SDK for the BlackBerry PlayBook. This is you chance since RIM has just put out a form for developers to apply to be part of the closed beta for the Native SDK. Here is how RIM describes the SDK:
BlackBerry WebWorks SDK for Smartphones Updated to v2.1.1
Good news for web developers making WebWorks app for BlackBerrys. RIM keeps pushing the platform forward and the latest update brings us to v2.1.1 since the previous update in June. The new version brings APIs and new features including a built in BlackBerry® 7 OS simulator, Web Inspector, Microphone API, Auto injection of Gears-to-HTML5 shim….
Rumor: BlackBerry AppWorld 3.0 Coming August 22nd
World on the web has gotten around this morning that BlackBerry AppWorld 3.0 will be released on Monday August 22nd. I have been beta testing it for a few weeks now, and it is the upgrade that AppWorld has needed. The program in beta is still not perfect, but a nice upgrade from 2.0. Hopefully…