BlackBerry Jam Developer Sessions Video & Handouts Now Available to All
BlackBerry has been great at making the BlackBerry developer conference content available to all developers free after conferences. We have heard from a few developers that the conference videos, presentations, and handouts are starting to be made available online for streaming and download. This is definitely worth checking out if you did not make it…
Wireless HDMI and What It Means to Us
The other day we mentioned in the 10.2 SDK Post that Wireless HDMI (WiDi) is coming to the BlackBerry 10 devices later this year (Q5 might be the exception as it does not have HDMI out). Now many of you might now know exactly how it will enrich our experience, so I will break it…
BlackBerry 10.2 SDK Beta Coming in June
Now we are not only getting 10.1 on our devices this month, but that doesn’t stop BlackBerry from moving forward on the developer end. They were proud to announce they have some great things in the works, and we developers will get to see them with 10.2. Check out below some of the great things…
Android Runtime getting Expected Update to 4.2.2 Soon
One of the things that I loved the most this morning was hearing that they are going to moving forward on updating the Android runtime to the long awaited JellyBean 4.2.2. This is a huge step in the right direction, as I am a huge advocate of sideloaded apps. The goal is to support all…
BlackBerry Jam To Signal The Rise of Headless Apps Next Week (Background Apps)
One of the most requested features for BlackBerry 10 apps has been the ability to run applications in the background without an active frame. Many apps from instant messaging clients to notification utilities would benefit from such a feature and BlackBerry has promised it is coming soon. We mentioned earlier that BlackBerry has a…
Vote for the 2013 BlackBerry Developer Community Awards #BBDevAwards
We told you earlier about the nominations for the BlackBerry Developer Community Awards and now they have reached the final vote. You can head on over to the awards page to throw in your ballot. The winners will be announced at the BlackBerry Jam Americas TweetUp on May 15th. Check out the finalists you can…
BlackBerry Discussing “New Background Services Framework” at BlackBerry Jam this Month
I continued digging through the BlackBerry Jam developer catalog for later this month and struck gold. I found that BlackBerry has a session dedicated to what they have been calling “headless apps” until now but now call their “Background Services Framework.” In a nutshell this framework will allow developers to run applications and processes in…
Flurry Mobile Analytics Coming to BlackBerry 10
BlackBerry 10 developers have been complaining to me about the lack of an analytics service for BlackBerry 10 apps. Even BlackBerrys own analytics program does not work on BlackBerry 10 and is set as “coming soon.” This has not stopped an enterprising developer from creating a Localytics unsupported opensource client but it is something. That…