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BlackBerry Jam Unplugged: Connectivity

Tim N. — Thu, 09 May 2013 01:25:34 +0000

We’ve now posted the final episode of the BlackBerry Jam Unplugged series where we learn a little more about connecting to the world around you with BlackBerry 10.

I hope you’ve enjoyed the series and we look forward to seeing you all at BlackBerry Jam Americas in Orlando. Please let us know what you thought of the videos to ensure that we can bring information to you in a way that’s educational, but entertaining as well.

This particular video will give you some information about the current opportunities and upcoming roadmap items that we’re looking at for extending connectivity for developers. In this video we’re joined by Rob Williams who talks about how you can connect BlackBerry 10 to the world around you to incorporate context into your apps.

BlackBerry Jam Unplugged: Gaming

Tim N. — Tue, 07 May 2013 08:00:13 +0000

After a bit of a struggle, no thanks to our interviewee Dale, we now have the latest episode of the BlackBerry Jam Unplugged series ready where we learn more about gaming on BlackBerry 10.

We’ll be posting videos as part of this series leading up to BlackBerry Jam Americas in Orlando in order to give some more background surrounding the topics that we’ll be discussing in detail during the conference.

In this video we’re joined by Dale Ducharme (against his will) to talk about the cool features available for gaming developers on BlackBerry 10.

BlackBerry Jam Unplugged: BBM APIs

Tim N. — Thu, 02 May 2013 14:41:47 +0000

Hot off the press is the latest episode of the BlackBerry Jam Unplugged series where we learn a little more about BBM integration with BlackBerry 10.

This particular video will give you some information about the upcoming roadmap items that we’re looking at for extending BBM capabilities for developers. In this video we’re joined by Nick Kalkounis to talk about new APIs that are coming to better connect your application through BBM.

BlackBerry Jam Unplugged: Integration

Tim N. — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:38:39 +0000

We’ve now posted the latest episode of the BlackBerry Jam Unplugged series where we learn a little more about app integration into BlackBerry 10.

This particular video will give you some information about the upcoming roadmap items that we’re looking at for further integration into BlackBerry 10. In this video we’re joined by Michael Clewley to talk about how integration with BlackBerry 10 can improve the user experience of your application.

BlackBerry Jam Unplugged: Cascades

Tim N. — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:59:56 +0000

Continuing our BlackBerry Jam Unplugged series, we’ve now posted the latest episode which gives a little more information around the future of the Cascades UI Framework.

This particular video will give you some information about the upcoming roadmap items that we’re looking at for the Cascades UI Framework. In this video we’re joined by Markus Landin, all the way from Malmo Sweden, to talk to us about Cascades and the evolution of the framework on BlackBerry 10!

BlackBerry Jam Unplugged: Headless Apps

Tim N. — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:59:50 +0000

You can now check out the latest video in the BlackBerry Jam Unplugged series, where we give some more insight around our considerations for upcoming headless applications on BlackBerry 10.

We’ll be continuing this video series leading up to BlackBerry Jam Americas in Orlando in order to give some more background surrounding the topics that we’ll be discussing in detail during the conference.

In this particular video, we’re joined by Geordie Ferguson to talk to us about the ins and outs of headless applications and the areas that we’re exploring to bring this type of functionality to an upcoming release of BlackBerry 10.

BlackBerry Jam Unplugged: Cordova and WebWorks

Tim N. — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:39:51 +0000

Continuing our BlackBerry Jam Unplugged series, we’ve now posted the latest episode which gives a little more information around HTML5, WebWorks, and the Apache Cordova project.

This particular video will give you some information about the upcoming roadmap items that we’re looking at for WebWorks and HTML5 developers. We’re joined by Erik Johnson from the WebWorks R&D team to talk to us about Apache Cordova and the evolution of the BlackBerry 10 Web Platform!

BlackBerry 10.1 SDK for Adobe AIR reaches Gold!

Tim N. — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:43:28 +0000

Today is the launch of the Gold version of the BlackBerry 10.1 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.

Port your AIR apps

Re-compile your existing BlackBerry PlayBook AIR applications to BlackBerry 10. If you’re already using the fuse component set that debuted with the BlackBerry PlayBook SDK for Adobe AIR, the port should be quick and easy. You can get more details from this blog post.

For more details on what’s coming after Gold for the BlackBerry 10 SDK for Adobe AIR, please visit our Adobe AIR roadmap.

BlackBerry Jam Unplugged: Android Runtime

Tim N. — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:50:24 +0000

Continuing our BlackBerry Jam Unplugged series, we’ve now posted the latest episode which gives a little more color and insight around the future of the Android Runtime for BlackBerry 10.

We’ll be continuing this video series leading up to BlackBerry Live 2013 in order to give some more background surrounding the topics that we’ll be discussing in detail during the conference.

This particular video will give you some information surrounding the upcoming roadmap items that we’re looking at our Android Runtime. We’re joined by Matthew Whiteman to talk to us about cookies and sweet, sweet candy!

BlackBerry Jam Unplugged: Adobe AIR SDK

Tim N. — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 18:09:33 +0000

Check out the latest episode in our BlackBerry Jam Unplugged video series!

Hot on the heels of our last episode, which covered the Momentics tooling, this particular video will fill you in on our SDK for Adobe AIR. Julian Dolce joins us to discuss upcoming roadmap items that we’re looking at to improve the AIR SDK.

BlackBerry Jam Unplugged is an ongoing series that gives a bit of color and insight into the BlackBerry 10 SDK roadmap. We’ll run this video series leading up to BlackBerry Jam Americas in Orlando to give some background on the topics that we will discuss at length during the conference.

So tune in, and find out which upgraded version of the Adobe AIR Runtime will come to BlackBerry 10!