New BlackBerry Builder Developer Certification & Developer Job Boards
BlackBerry has gone one step further in embracing their growing development community with their new BlackBerry Certified Builder program. This certification allows you to prove you have to skills to develop either Native or WebWorks apps based on your skill set. BlackBerry has then teamed up with oDesk to create a job board for BlackBerry…
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…
RIM Finishes BlackBerry Theme Studio Unofficial Hack Tutorial for BlackBerry 7 Themes
We told you last week that RIM had started an official tutorial that was essentially endorsing the current way theme developers are hacking Theme Studio 6 themes onto BlackBerry 7 devices. Thomas let us know that Garett from RIM has now completed the third part of what seems to be the full three part tutorial…
RIM Promises Full Details on BlackBerry 7 Theme Development this Month
BlackBerry theme developers were twiddling their thumbs for awhile when it came to BlackBerry 7 theme development until they found some temporary yet annoying workarounds. RIM claimed the delay in bringing theme builder support for BlackBerry 7 was due to it being broken by their “Liquid Graphics” implementation and promised a fix sometime around now….
Devs: Adobe Flash Builder 4.6 Released With Native Extensions & Captive Runtime
Adobe just blurred the line between native and Adobe Flash/AIR development on the PlayBook yet again with the release of Adobe Flash Builder 4.6. This update is a complimentary update for developers from Flash Builder v4.5 and adds what they call Native Extensions and Captive Runtime. I could try to explain them but I will…
Free Avatar Builder v1.5 Guys & Girls Edition With Ugly Sweater Expansion Pack
RIM has just released some more holiday goodies in the form of their free Avatar Builder Guys and Girls applications. Both versions have been updated to v1.5 which is a nice update from the previous 1.0.2 versions. RIM has also thrown in a cool expansion pack for both apps called the Ugly Sweater Expansion…
Avatar Builder v1.0.2 Adds Support for More Countries
While I am not sure exactly what countries were added in this update it does look like some have definitely been added to the list. Terrence and a few other readers pointed out to us that RIM is rolling out a v1.0.2 of Avatar Builder. So far we have only received screenshots of the Girls…
Adobe Updates Flash Builder to v4.5.1 Improving Mobile Support
While Flash Builder v4.5 was supposed to be the version that added mobile support for developers to go cross platform it only really supported Android at first. From what I am hearing from devs this new Flash Builder v4.5.1 along with Flex 4.5.1 allows you to follow the similar export process to develop apps for…