Monthly Archives: November, 2012

Writing Qt apps for the BlackBerry 10 platform

Guest post from Eun-Kyung Choi and Kizito Kasengulu – Ed. Cascades™ and Qt are two major frameworks available on the BlackBerry® 10 platform. Qt on BlackBerry 10 provides a complete set of standard Qt 4.8 APIs with the exception of the QtWebKit module. BlackBerry 10 provides a selected set of APIs from the QtMobility project […]

Icon Sizes Updated for BlackBerry 10!

What’s in an icon?  A lot.  Quite simply: it is the single most viewed part of your entire application, and it’s a major part of your brand. So, when I tell you that based on design reviews and user reviews, we’ve updated icon sizes for BlackBerry® 10, changing from 150×150 to 114×114, you can either […]

Migrating your Android app from BlackBerry PlayBook to BlackBerry 10

Here’s a guest post on porting Android apps – Ed. As you will see below, there’s very little (usually just an icon change) required to transition you app from the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ to BlackBerry 10, or the other way around. So even if you haven’t submitted your Android app for distribution to BlackBerry App World™ […]

Porting your Android Native Game to BlackBerry 10

Have you heard about our 36 hour The BlackBerry Got Game Port-a-Thon  that starts tomorrow? Check out this post for details and how you can get some awesome rewards for porting apps to BlackBerry® 10. – Ed. So you have an Android™ Native game and wondering what does it takes to bring your game to BlackBerry® 10 for the […]

Porting Adobe AIR BlackBerry PlayBook Applications to BlackBerry 10

Speaking of porting, don’t forget our 36 hour The BlackBerry Got Game Port-a-Thon  starts tomorrow! Check out this post for details and how you can get some awesome rewards for porting apps to BlackBerry® 10. – Ed. The BlackBerry® 10 SDK for Adobe® AIR® has been created to make it easier for you to create Adobe […]

How to Integrate Your BlackBerry WebWorks Application with BBM

Welcome to part 3 of my series of blog posts discussing the BlackBerry® Messenger (BBM™) Social Platform. My previous blog post, Integrate with BBM and Watch Your Application Go Viral, covered the features of the BlackBerry Messenger Social Platform (BBM SP) and how you can use them to promote your application. If you haven’t read […]

One More Step Towards BlackBerry 10 – BlackBerry 10 Gold SDKs

Guest post from Lou G. – Ed. We’ve reached many key dates for developers building for BlackBerry® 10, and we want everyone to mark December 11th, 2012 in their calendars. On that date, we will release the gold version of the BlackBerry 10 SDKs. When the Gold SDK is released on December 11th, you can […]

BlackBerry Jam Europe 2013 – Register Today!

BlackBerry® 10 launch event? Check. BlackBerry® Jam Asia 2012? Check. BlackBerry Jam Europe 2013? That’s right – with all the BlackBerry 10 excitement happening, we didn’t want our European developers to feel left out. Registration is now open for BlackBerry Jam Europe 2013, which will be happening at the Amsterdam RAI Convention Centre on February […]

Porting Qt Applications to BlackBerry 10 is Easier than Ever!

Guest post from Eun-Kyung and Kizito – Ed. Qt developers and BlackBerry® 10 developers often ask the following questions: What is the relationship between Cascades™ and Qt, and how do they interact with each other? Cascades and Qt frameworks are two major frameworks available in BlackBerry 10 application development. From a high-level architectural point of […]

PeaksAndValleys: Limitless Landscape

PeaksAndValleys is a sample WebGL application developed for the BlackBerry® platform. It is primarily a learning resource for developers implementing pure WebGL along with additional HTML5 gaming concepts. It has also been open-sourced on Github because, well, we love open source. To learn more about WebGL and HTML5 gaming, be sure to join our webinar […]