Category Archives: Announcements
#Rehashed, Tuesday March 26, 2013: GDC Edition
Here’s all the info on where we’ll be at GDC 2013! http://www.gdconf.com - Booth 1216 Developing Cross Platform Mobile Games (Presented by BlackBerry) Steve Grenier | Senior Software Developer, BlackBerry Sean Paul Taylor | Team Lead, Gaming, BlackBerry Location: Room 3022, West Hall Date: March 27 Time: 3:30PM – 4:30PM In this session, BlackBerry Gaming R&D experts […]
The Built for BlackBerry Appeals Process
Based on your feedback on our Built for BlackBerry program, we are introducing a new process into the program. We are allowing vendors a one-time per application appeal to the Built for BlackBerry vetting decision. This new process is part of our on-going dedication to serving the developer community and is designed to address any […]
#Re-Hashed, Tuesday March 18, 2013: BlackBerry Live, GDC 2013
Alex from the Inside BlackBerry Developers Blog covers what you might have missed last week in BlackBerry development news. Inside BlackBerry Developers Blog Drive Downloads of Your BlackBerry 10 Game with Scoreloop See the BlackBerry Z10 in Austin – and hear some great music too! BlackBerry Live and BlackBerry Jam Americas, Together At Last
Woah, Now – Blog Bounty Roundup!
Well, that was faster than even we expected. Thanks to the amazing hard work of our developer community, we’ve reached over 5,000 apps submitted with the BlackBerry App Generator for our Blog Bounty. Since we’ve reached the maximum number of apps for the program, we’ve decided to cancel the remaining online help hours. We definitely […]
The BlackBerry House and Blog Bounty
It’s March. The smell of Korean tacos and PBR is in the air and that can only mean one thing – it’s time for SXSW 2013. BlackBerry is excited to be back in Austin and you’re invited to stop by The BlackBerry House and see how BlackBerry 10 can keep you moving.
March Port-A-Thon Rewards Update
The BlackBerry Developer Relations Team is committed to ensuring that everyone who participated in our Port-A-Thons are rewarded properly. We are very grateful for the hard work and long hours you’ve contributed to building your BlackBerry 10 apps. We are working hard to get your apps approved. We have teams around the globe approving BlackBerry 10 apps […]
Prevent Sleep for WebWorks Apps
(Photo credit to Alan L, and his cat) When your content is so riveting that your users can’t take their eyes off the screen, the last thing you want is the screen dimming and breaking that immersion. Thankfully, BlackBerry 10 offers a simple API to keep the screen from dimming, which conveniently handles things like […]
BlackBerry Jam Starter Session – Vancouver and Saskatoon
Momentum for the BlackBerry 10 platform has been explosive since the launch of BlackBerry 10 on January 30th. BlackBerry World currently has over 70,000 apps and games and is growing every day. There hasn’t been a better time to start building for BlackBerry. Wavefront and BlackBerry are teaming up to present hands-on development workshops to support […]
Built for BlackBerry and the 10K Developer Commitment: Dates to Remember
You know the saying “a nice problem to have” or “embarrassment of riches”? Well, we have experienced something along those same lines with the amazing response from our developer community, especially the Herculean effort to have applications ready in BlackBerry World for the launch of BlackBerry 10 on January 30, just a few short weeks […]
Sublime BlackBerry 10 WebWorks Development
At the risk of broaching a topic that is potentially more volatile than politics, religion, or semi-colons in JavaScript, let’s talk a little bit about development environments for BlackBerry 10 WebWorks. Now, while I’m going to talk about one development environment in particular in this blog post, one of the great things about BlackBerry 10 […]
