Monthly Archives: January, 2013
Buffer now available for BlackBerry 10
Leo and Joel from Buffer are definitely two smart guys. We’ve never met in person, but have been in touch for more than a year in regards to their beautiful service, Buffer. What’s Buffer? Well, the name speaks for itself – it’s a service that allows you to send your status updates to a buffer […]
BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha OS Update – January 30th
With the BlackBerry 10 launch event just around the corner, we’re also making an update available for the BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha A and B testing devices. That’s right – on January 30th we’ll be providing an updated version of the BlackBerry 10 SDK and OS for the BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha A and B […]
Port-A-Thon Updates
This is such an exciting time to create applications for BlackBerry. Many thanks to our dedicated developer community for submitting more than 40,000 apps during our five Port-A-Thons! Let’s talk about one of the best parts of the Port-A-Thons; the rewards. Here’s an update on the reward process that highlights how and when things will […]
Have An Issue With Running Your Cascades Release Build?
So you have been developing your Cascades app for a while. Everything is working great! You’re ready to just export the release build, double check that it works, and… oh, no, it’s broken. “PANIC!!!” you might think. Well, luckily you found this blog post. I am going to walk you through the all the steps you […]
Extending the Deadline for Built for BlackBerry
As you may have read, we’ve held a couple port-a-thons over the last few weeks. The response and interaction from developers has been nothing short of amazing. Now that the dust is settling from this weekend’s Last Chance Port-A-Thon, we’re excited to announce that over 19,000 applications were submitted to BlackBerry World over the weekend. This continues to show […]
#Re-Hashed, Mon. January 21, 2013: Built for BlackBerry, Limited Edition, BlackBerry App Generator
I’m back in Waterloo with what you might have missed last week in BlackBerry development BlackBerry 10 Limited Edition Update http://devblog.blackberry.com/2013/01/blackberry-10-limited-edition-update-2/ How to build an app in 10 minutes with the BlackBerry App Generator: http://devblog.blackberry.com/2013/01/blackberry-app-generator/ CustomMapsView in your Cascades app http://devblog.blackberry.com/2013/01/cascades-mapview/ Built for BlackBerry program update http://devblog.blackberry.com/2013/01/built-for-blackberry-update/
BlackBerry App World Web Storefront is now BlackBerry World
(Originally posted on the Inside BlackBerry Blog) Hey #TeamBlackBerry, if you were up at the wee hours of the morning today, you may have noticed a change to the BlackBerry App World web store. It is now simply called BlackBerry World. The naming change reflects a shift in the type of things you can purchase […]
Overwhelming Developer Response from APAC!
Guest post from Sha Sa – Ed. Developers set a new record for last weekend’s port-a-thons, and devs from APAC definitely contributed in great leaps: More than half of the apps submitted globally were coming out of Asia! We saw great submissions from India, China and the rest of this region. On Saturday January 12th, […]
Incorporating video into your BlackBerry 10 OpenGL applications
Guest post from Dale D. – Ed. So, you want to add video to your native OpenGL application on BlackBerry 10? Below I’ll go through the steps that you need to complete in order to get it up and running quickly. The first thing you’ll want to do is create a window group in your […]
Convert Your Free/Paid Apps to Freemium Apps – The Best of Both Worlds
With the launch event for BlackBerry 10 less than two weeks away, I figured this would be an ideal time to remind our developer community of some of the great options and flexibility provided by the Payment SDK, which leverages the BlackBerry World client to allow the sale of digital goods and subscriptions. As many […]
