RIM Releases BlackBerry Curve 9320 Simulator & Updates Others
I am really liking that RIM is finally being more vocal when it updates its developer tools. They announced on their blog and sent all App World vendors that a brand new device, the BlackBerry Curve 9320, is coming soon. RIM has released the specs and a simulator for the device running OS 7.1.0.405 which…
Devs: RIM Releases Gameplay 3D Opensource Cross Platform C++ Game Framework
RIM’s Gaming division is really putting on the full court press when it comes to attracting game developers. Now Sean Paul Taylor, Team Lead for Gaming R&D at RIM, announced that they have released their new v1.2 of their open source cross platform C++ game development framework Gameplay. I am not sure if this…
New Theme Builder with BlackBerry 7 Support Coming Soon?
Matt over at BlackBerry Cool has just posted an interesting article. He is stating that they have received a tip from one of their members saying that a theme builder for BlackBerry 7 devices will be dropping in early summer. Now because this is only a tip, we can take this as a rumour. It…
Devs: JsonCpp C++ JSON Parser Ported to BlackBerry 10
There are quite a few devs out there working on Native SDK apps for the PlayBook and BlackBerry 10 devices. That is why I thought it worthwhile to mention that RIM has upped the number of their GitHub repositories to 48 now with the addition of JsonCpp. This is a port of the popular C++…
BlackBerry 10 USB Host & Bluetooth Accessories Coming! (USB & Bluetooth APIs)
RIM has teased us with USB host and other accessories for awhile now but it looks like they are finally coming. One of the unscheduled sessions at BlackBerry 10 Jam is a GRP101 – Roundtable: BlackBerry 10 USB and Bluetooth Extensibility. There three RIM employees will be discussing how accessories can connect over USB…
BBM on BlackBerry 10 Built Using Cascades & BBM Social Platform Coming Too!
I dug a little further into the BlackBerry 10 Jam session catalog and ran into a bit of gold. RIM has already told us before that BlackBerry 10 will have BBM at launch. The thing is it seems like RIM has been running along and building it faster than expected. During BlackBerry 10 Jam on…
BlackBerry 10 Jam Sessions Reveal Upcoming Features & Dev Tools!
RIM has let developers know more about the components of BlackBerry 10 but I found something interesting when I started looking at the BlackBerry 10 Jam session catalog. Many of the sessions assume that certain features, APIs, and developer tools will be released before the session or at least at the same time. For example,…
RIM Offering App World Vendors Free Passes to BlackBerry 10 Jam! (LIMITED!)
RIM has been ramping up to their first BlackBerry 10 Jam developer event which is a sister conference to BlackBerry World. They have been promoting the conference and offering incentives to get as many developers to come and develop for BlackBerry 10 as possible. They are also giving these developers BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha devices…