BlackBerry PlayBook Bridge to be Opened Up to Developers!
Yes you read that right! Mike Kirkup, Director of Developer Relations at RIM, and Chris Smith, Senior Director for the BlackBerry Development Platform, confirmed at BlackBerry World this week that the BlackBerry PlayBook Bluetooth Bridge will be opened up to 3rd party developers. This will allow developers to pass information back and forth between BlackBerry…
BlackBerry Java SDK v7.0 Beta Features Announced – Coming This Month
Fitting with the announcement of the upcoming Bold 9900 with OS 7.0 we now have RIM announcing the BlackBerry Java SDK v7.0 beta for developers to take advantage of the new OS features. RIM kind of confused me by hinting that it was “now in beta” as in today but it looks like they are…
BlackBerry OS 7 Browser Adds Developer Tools & More
RIM has already spilled the beans on quite a few of the upcoming improvements in BlackBerry OS 7. We have heard of the JIT (Just In Time) JavaScript rendering along with the faster processing of pages along with other features like HTML5 Video. One thing I have also noticed when playing with the device itself…
BlackBerry PlayBook Application UI Design Guidelines
I have been working on a few BlackBerry PlayBook applications over the last few weeks. A friend of mind pointed out to me that RIM published up their customary development guidelines for the BlackBerry PlayBook. This guide details how RIM thinks application developers should design their user interface and the different factors they should have…
BlackBerry PlayBook Apps Can Be Extracted From Backup Files?
One of our readers, John, let us know about a thread on the official BlackBerry support forums discussing the ability to extract BlackBerry PlayBook application binaries from backup files. This all started from a thread on CrackBerry forums by HaTaX pointing out how he managed to do it for DoodleBlast and PeopleOnMyLawn. It turns out…
Get instant WiFi Connection with HiWiFi App for your BlackBerry.
Popular BlackBerry theme designer…Hedone Design has recently launched i-Mentalist, their new BlackBerry application developer site. Their latest release, HiWiFi offers your BlackBerry instant WiFi access to open networks in your area once the application is open. According to i-Mentalist “HiWiFi application is a powerful wireless network manager. It provides automatic WLAN connection and informs you…
RIM Explains Android and Java on PlayBook Along with Native SDK
RIM has been kind of hush on the details about the upcoming Android and Java app players for the BlackBerry PlayBook. Developers have been clamoring for more details and RIM has just provided some more insight along with details on the native SDK. In a nice Q&A RIM has detailed things like saying that the…
HOT! WebKit Web Inspector on the BlackBerry PlayBook for Web Developers!!!
I have been begging RIM to release some form of WebKits Web Inspector for web developers since they released BlackBerry 6 with the Torch WebKit browser. It looks like they are finally listening with the BlackBerry PlayBook. I was sifting through the options in the browsers menu and ran across an option to “Enable Web…