Category Archives: Interviews/Thought Leadership

BlackBerry Jam Unplugged: Android Runtime

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 […]

BlackBerry Jam Unplugged: Adobe AIR SDK

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 […]

Gadget Box: A Handy Built for BlackBerry Application

I like to think of myself as a handy guy, but in actuality, I’m not. Oh I have a garage full of tools: hammers, saws, power tools of all shapes and sizes, I just don’t use them very much. As it turns out, the tool I use most is a hammer. Hammers can fix anything. […]

BlackBerry Jam Unplugged: Momentics Tooling

Last year we started sharing roadmaps for our tools and APIs with our community, and now we’re looking to give that information a bit more color. Sure, there’s a little bit of information on the roadmaps talking about what the features will entail, but we don’t usually get the chance to explain them in more […]

WebGL: 3D Gaming on the Web Arrives

The Web and 3D have been to the dance many times together before, but they just never really hit it off. Sure, there were some successes which resulted in VRML in the mid 1990’s and Second Life in the early 2000’s. But numerous other attempts by countless startups didn’t make it. The reasons were many, […]

Top Amazon Kindle Books Recommendations for BlackBerry Developers

Are you looking for the perfect book to get your developer juices flowing?  Look no further. To celebrate the launch of Amazon Kindle on BlackBerry 10, we have compiled a list of our favourite developer-related Amazon Kindle edition books just for you. Our list of books covers topics such as web development, JQuery, HTML5, C++ […]

[VIDEO] Top Reasons to Port to BlackBerry 10 according to Macadamian – February 2013

You’ve heard it from us before that porting applications to BlackBerry 10 is easy. Some have even done it in 36 hours or less! One of the most compelling reasons to bring your applications to our platform is that developers do not have to spend time learning a complete new set of skills to get […]

Drive Downloads of Your BlackBerry 10 Game with Scoreloop

Guest post from Sonja A – Ed. Social networking has dramatically changed the way mobile games are being designed, played and discovered. Less than ten years ago, the shift from asynchronous messaging and stable home pages to instant status updates and socially engaging interactive experiences on social networks pushed the rise of the web 2.0. […]

Built For BlackBerry Success Story: How ClipMan went from rejected to accepted!

Want to know what it takes to get your Built For BlackBerry application accepted? Today, you’ll find out how one developer took his rejected Built For BlackBerry app and improved it to get accepted into the program! Helex, a BlackBerry 10 developer, submitted his application – one that was originally rejected because it was missing […]

A Few Of My Favorite Things in BlackBerry 10

With the launch of BlackBerry 10 on January 30th, some of you now have your hands on a shiny new BlackBerry Z10. I am sure you are enjoying the ease of “BlackBerry Hub”, “BlackBerry Flow”, and the deep integration with social networks. One of the great things about being a BlackBerry Developer Evangelist is that […]