Monthly Archives: December, 2012

Cascades Framework Has Gone Gold

We like to save the best for last – and in the case of the BlackBerry 10 SDK gold releases – the icing on the cake is our Cascades framework. Here’s Anders Larsson, Product Manager for Cascades, discussing what the gold release of the Cascades framework means for developers.

BlackBerry 10 SDK for Adobe AIR reaches Gold!

Today is the launch of the Gold version of the BlackBerry 10 SDK for Adobe AIR. Thank you to everyone that has been helping us test it so far! For a full list of API updates and fixes, please head over to the release notes. Below are some of the benefits of using the gold […]

Solid Gold! Official release of the BlackBerry 10 WebWorks SDK

DSC04801 / mat79 / CC BY 2.0 Months of planning. More months of development. Re-planning. Long hours. Trips around the world. Meeting with you, our BlackBerry WebWorks development community. It all culminates with this: the gold release of the BlackBerry 10 WebWorks SDK. The team here could not be more stoked to deliver this final […]

Golden treats! Android Runtime for BlackBerry 10 Gold release

Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sebastiandooris/3177145670/ Well my Android Runtime friends, it is finally here! Not the massive plate of gingerbread cookies or candy-decorated houses, but the Gold release of the BlackBerry Runtime for Android Apps and Plug-in for Android Development Tools for BlackBerry 10. Before we get into some of the new functionality in this release, I […]

bbUI.js version 0.9.5 signed, sealed and delivered

With bbUI v0.9.5, <meme>We Has JavaScript</meme>. The focus in this release has really been another round of bug fixes, optimizations and additional JavaScript interfaces. The previous versions of bbUI have started to improve with the number of JavaScript interfaces, but still haven’t provided full dynamic functionality. This release gets us further towards our goal of […]

#Re-Hash’d: Monday, December 10th 2012

Alex from Inside BlackBerry Developer Blog covers what you missed last week. Want to find a blog post from the video? Look no further: BlackBerry 10 and Appcelerator Titanium Webcast http://devblog.blackberry.com/2012/12/appcelerator-titanium-blackberry-10/ All Aboard the BlackBerry 10 Port-A-Thon http://devblog.blackberry.com/2012/12/all-aboard-blackberry-10-port-a-thon/ BlackBerry 10 WebWorks and Maps http://devblog.blackberry.com/2012/12/blackberry-webworks-maps/ BlackBerry 10 Gold SDK Tweetup – Sunnyvale, CA http://www.eventbrite.ca/event/4985148714 BlackBerry 10 […]

BlackBerry Messenger Social Platform Registration Changes

The next OS update for the BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha devices contains some changes to the way BBM Connected applications register with the BlackBerry Messenger Social Platform.  The methods used to register remain the same, but the order of operations has changed. The main change requires an application to first check on the status of […]

Appcelerator Titanium for BlackBerry 10

We’re excited to announce the availability of the Appcelerator Titanium for BlackBerry 10 in a pre-release version. Through the power of Titanium’s cross platform capabilities, developers and enterprises will be able to build and port their applications to BlackBerry 10. Leverage Titanium’s cross platform native experience to create a Built for BlackBerry app and qualify […]

The New BlackBerry Platform (Part 1): A Developer-Friendly and Student-Friendly Platform

Guest post from Meyer Tanuan (mtanuan@conestogac.on.ca | @kwmobidev) - Ed. As I prepared to teach the Mobile Application Programming course of the Conestoga College Computer Programmer/Analyst (CPA) program for the fall 2012 school term, I chose the new BlackBerry PlayBook tablet and BlackBerry 10 platforms because they are both developer and student-friendly. In this blog post, I […]

Application Security Part I: Whose Responsibility Is It?

This is the first post in a two part series about security. In this post, I tackle the issue of responsibility. In Part II, we’ll explore some things that developers need to know to help them write secure apps. I sat on a panel recently at Sprint’s Open Solutions Conference in San Jose titled “Consumer […]