Unity BlackBerry 10 Open Beta For Developers
Unity has announced a BlackBerry 10 Open Beta making it easier for developers to bring their games to BlackBerry 10. There are Unity games in BlackBerry World right now including Air Attack, CreaVures, Dark Nebula: Episode One, Fractal, Gravity Lab, Psychoban, Roboto, Samurai II Vengeance, SHADOWGUN and Sushi Chop . This is the message from Unity: Be one of the first Unity developers to port your content…
RIM Hiring Two JavaScript Developers in Ontario – Apply Now!
I know some other news outlets have been covering possible layoffs at RIM but Thorsten Heins has been clear that RIM is still hiring in departments working on BlackBerry 10. Adam Stanley from RIM’s developer relations team drove that point home this week by highlighting two new job openings for JavaScript developers out in Mississauga,…
BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.1.0 Beta for Developers Now Available
Devs (And users) can now get in on the PlayBook OS 2.1.0 fun with a public beta of the OS. This OS rockets the WebKit browser further with a 391 score on HTML5Test. On top of that there are loads of basic improvements like portrait support for email, calendar, and contacts. RIM has also added…
Galaxy on Fire 2 HD blazing onto BlackBerry PlayBook
Game developer Fish Labs showed off a spectacular game, Galaxy on Fire 2 HD, during the BlackBerry 10 Jam keynote as a demonstration of how easy it is to port to PlayBook. It took them less than a day, and, in one case, only 3 lines of code to enable key features. This is…
RIM and QNX Announce Initiative To Encourage App Development In China’s Universities
May 1, 2012 RIM and QNX Initiative Encourages Young Talent in China to Develop Apps on the BlackBerry Platform BEIJING, CHINA and ORLANDO, FLORIDA–(Marketwire – May 1, 2012) – BlackBerry World 2012 – Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ:RIMM)(TSX:RIM) and its subsidiary, QNX Software Systems, today announced a new initiative to encourage university students in China…
Devs: Submit A BB10 App, Trade Your Alpha Device In For A Limited-Edition BB10 Device At Release
This year’s BlackBerry World is very much geared toward selling developers on the BB10 platform. RIM is really throwing themselves at the feet of the developer community. Let’s face it, with the developers, BB10 goes nowhere, and RIM goes bye-bye. RIM. Needs. Developers. They absolutely have to secure buy-in on BB10, and they know it….
BlackBerry App Development: Gold Rush or Drops in a Bucket?
I was lured into PlayBook app development last winter by the offer of a free PlayBook. My motivations weren’t at all to make any money. To the contrary, I was firm in my belief that the app landscape consisted of big winners like Angry Birds who made back their investment 10,000 fold, and hundreds of…
BlackBerry Developer Challenge BBM Social Platform Winners
RIM announced the finalists and and then the winners of the last category of the BlackBerry Developers challenge. The winners are SeaBattle SE from ToySoft and MTV Night Finder in Latin America. Kudos to the finalists and winners!