BlackBerry PlayBook Hockey DrillBook App for Coaches
I am dying to catch a picture of some real coaches using a BlackBerry PlayBook as an actual PlayBook. A new BlackBerry developer, Joey, let us know about an update to his Hockey DrillBook app for coaches. It turns out that this latest update was based on suggestions from a thread in our forums which…
RIM Announces Upcoming WebWorks Smartphone APIs for Devs
RIM has been making some nice progress with the WebWorks platform over the last year. On the PlayBook it is a pretty solid development platform but on smartphones it still plays second fiddle to Java apps. For example, the new BlackBerry 6 universal search integration is not possible as far as I know in WebWorks…
Roadmap for BlackBerry WebWorks Platform for PlayBook and Smartphones
As a web developer I have been keeping a close eye on RIM’s BlackBerry WebWorks platform. When it first launched it seemed like RIM was just trying to cash in on the “Widget” craze without really investing time and effort into the platform for the smartphone. That feeling is going away since the PlayBook showed…
RIM Extends Free BlackBerry PlayBook Offer for Developers
SWEET! I was just about to write up an article about how the March 15th deadline for the free BlackBerry PlayBook offer is almost here and RIM changes it. I am glad to report that RIM has extended the deadline for the free BlackBerry PlayBook offer for any dev with an accepted PlayBook app in…
PlayBook OS to Have App Notifications to “Display Events Such as New Email”
I was having a conversation with @Bla1ze last night and we were talking about 3rd party and native application notifications on the BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet OS. Right now I cannot find any documented API for developers to initiate notifications in the top right and top left bars on the PlayBook. There are some undocumented…
RIM’s WebWorks Development Tips and Tricks for the PlayBook
Over the past few days we have pointed out a few concerns developers, including myself, have run into with setting up the PlayBook development environment. Tim Neil over at the official BlackBerry Blog was kind enough to share his tips and tricks for how to quickly get up and running developing WebWorks apps for the…
RIM Addresses Some Developer Question Regarding App World and Other Requirements
RIM has been receiving some good feedback from developers lately. Yesterday Ronen commented on some of the issues and how RIM can make it easier for developers to make apps for RIM devices. One of the things that RIM is so consistent is the redundant work load it puts people when registering. Today Alex from…
Kind Developer Shares Ant Script for PlayBook WebWorks Builds
If you have ever developed for the BlackBerry platform in any serious capacity you have probably used or at least heard of ANT scripts. ANT (Another Neat Tool) is a nice Java utility from Apache that helps you automate the building of applications from source code. While we can always wish that RIM would…