Monthly Archives: December, 2012

Gold Dev Tools Webcast Tomorrow!

Everyone loves a good webinar. OK, perhaps that’s an overstatement. Nevertheless, we hear loud and clear that our developer community loves them. The series of webinars we have run throughout the summer in conjunction with each successive SDK release have been extremely successful. So why stop now? Tomorrow – Tuesday, December 18th – we are […]

BlackBerry Dev Tunisia – An Amazing BlackBerry Developer Group

I met Imed Amri at the BlackBerry booth at Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona, Spain. He is an engineer and professor at the Esprit engineering school in Tunis, Tunisia. He had strong interest in our upcoming BlackBerry 10 platform, with its focus towards Open Standards and Open Source. He appreciated our new developer commitment and expressed […]

#Re-Hash’d: Monday, December 17th 2012

Alex and Samantha from the Inside BlackBerry Developer Blog cover what you missed last week. That’s what you missed last week. Got questions? Comments? Let us know!

Attention iOS Developers: Now is the time to bring your iOS apps to BlackBerry 10

Guest post from Eun-Kyung Choi – Ed. Why BlackBerry? Over the past months, we’ve been showing you what the new BlackBerry 10 platform is all about and how easy it is to create rich and astonishing-looking apps for BlackBerry 10 using the Cascades UI framework. Not only does BlackBerry 10 offer an awesome platform and […]

All Aboard Port-A-Thon Update – Adobe Connect System Maintenance

Good Morning, Good Afternoon and Good evening, We are very excited to get the All Aboard BlackBerry Port-A-Thon underway very shortly. We have recently been made aware that Adobe Connect will undergo system maintenance during the following window: Start:  December 14, 2012 at 08:00 PM PDT End:    December 14, 2012 at 10:00 PM PDT During the […]

Talking With Your Arduino via NFC on BlackBerry

Did you know that it’s easy to exchange data between your NFC enabled smartphone and your Arduino? It can be arbitrary data too – it does not need to be formatted as NDEF tags or ISO 7816-4 APDUs! What does it take to get an Arduino that talks with BlackBerry running? Here’s what I used […]

JavaScript vs. C++? Cascades Lets You Make Native Apps With Both!

I’m a web developer. Yes, I did have some C/C++ chops back in the distant past, but jumping in and building a native mobile app today is something that gives me pause. So imagine my surprise when I learned that BlackBerry 10 native apps can be made with JavaScript. Intrigued? Yeah, me too. I’m still […]

BlackBerry 10 Development 101: Native

There are many ways to develop games or applications for BlackBerry 10. This is a good thing, but if you have not developed for the BlackBerry platform or you are familiar only with the older Java-based platform, it may be overwhelming. What are your options, and how do you get started? Several factors can help […]

All Aboard the BlackBerry 10 Port-A-Thon

Update: Wow! We are thrilled with your excitement about this weekend’s event. We have had huge interest from the community in participating in the All Aboard BlackBerry Port-A-Thon! As a result, we have decided to open the Port-A-Thon to new BlackBerry WebWorks SDK, Adobe AIR, Native SDK and Cascades SDK applications for BlackBerry 10, in […]

Webcast – Developing BlackBerry 10 Apps Using Qt

As a follow up to our latest blog post on how to write Qt apps for BlackBerry 10 and the recent Qt Developer Days, we are hosting a webcast this Friday December 14th at 9 am EST with Vladimir Minenko, Technical Manager, Qt, from RIM to give developers the opportunity to learn more about how […]