RIM Partners With Soc.Io Mall To Help Devs Port Android Apps
RIM has made another connection with a third party Android app store to assist developers in bringing their apps to BlackBerry 10 and App World. They teamed up with Soc.Io Mall and setup a website develop4bb10.com to help developers port their apps. I am still on the fence on how Android support will play out…
RIM Shows Off BlackBerry 10 Cascades Mapping Elements
RIM’s latest native SDK update for BlackBerry 10 included MapView for Cascades but only developers really got a look at it. Thankfully Shadid at RIM created a video of RIM’s CustomMapView sample that makes use of the integrated BlackBerry Maps MapView. It allows you to view the 2D maps while rotating the device to…
BlackBerry Theme Builder v7.1 Buggy Beta Leaked Out
RIM publicly cancelled the BlackBerry Theme Studio v7.1 build to focus on BlackBerry 10 but they were getting close to a release. They realized that the effort to fix the bugs in Theme Builder 7.1 was better spent on perfecting BlackBerry 10 and I have to agree with them. The beta builds RIM was beta…
Last Chance Port-A-Thon Includes BlackBerry App Generator Apps
RIM let us know that they have confirmed the details of the Last Chance Port-A-Thon happening this weekend. With the amazing success of previous port-a-thons they are going into the home stretch with some changes. RIM let us know that this Last Chance Port-A-Thon allows BlackBerry 10 apps built using any development approach which…
RIM Offers BlackBerry 10 Application Icons Free to Developers
I am not sure what took so long but thankfully RIM has stepped in. There have been a few third parties that have offered up their own icons for developers to use in their BlackBerry 10 apps. Jeremy let me know that RIM has now published their own action icons on the UI Guidelines page…
Latest BlackBerry 10 Port-A-Thon Hits 15,000+ App Submissions
Quite a few RIM employees must be burning the candle at both ends. They just ran their latest Port-A-Thon this weekend with a Community and Android variant going on at the same time. Alec Saunders reported that they actually ran the event for 37.5 hours instead of the scheduled 36 just to hit the 15,000+…
“Last Chance” Port-A-Thon is January 18/19 With Bonus 250 Limited Edition Device Prizes
RIM just wrapped up a hugely successful BlackBerry 10 Port-a-thon this weekend and it looks like they are geared up for another. Jose sent us the terms and conditions for another port-a-thon RIM is planning starting at 12PM EST on January 18th and ending at 11:59:59PM on January 19th. This one seems to include all…
BlackBerry 10 Native & WebWorks SDKs Get A January Refresh
Its nice to see RIM pushing out quicker builds of the SDK toolset for BlackBerry 10 to tweak it for launch. They announced the new availability of a refreshed BlackBerry 10 Native SDK and WebWorks SDK. Both are available now and while they are not required for running on BlackBerry 10 they will improve performance…