Category Archives: Native SDK Development

10.1 Gold – With great SDK powers, comes a bit of responsibility!

What responsibility? To make use of all the new features and make your app even greater! And of course, you want to ensure you are supporting as many in-market devices as possible. As you already know, the 10.1 Gold SDK and OS is out, along with the Q10 devices! However, since there are still some […]

BlackBerry Jam Unplugged: BBM APIs

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. 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 […]

Tips For Bringing Your BlackBerry Z10 Game To The BlackBerry Q10

With the upcoming release of BlackBerry Q10, there’s never been a better time to bring over your BlackBerry Z10 game and start monetizing on the new form factor. In this post, I will be talking about various porting considerations and best practices to help you get started and ensure that your game runs the best […]

BlackBerry Java to BlackBerry 10 Cascades Porting Series – Part 8: Storage

Part 8 of our Porting Series has us focus on Storage. The Cascades Framework uses a modular approach to store, access, and display data in your apps. There is a good chance you will need your app to interact with external data – the raw data for your app. The format of the external data […]

BlackBerry Jam Unplugged: Integration

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. 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 […]

GDC 2013: A Console Gaming Experience Anywhere, Anytime

With a background and passion for Computer Graphics, I’ve been to a slew of GDC conferences and over a dozen ACM SIGGRAPHs. Over the years, it’s interesting to see technologies come and go, and then come back again. The things I like to look for at these events are the technologies that have the potential […]

BlackBerry Jam Unplugged: Cascades

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. 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 […]

Dude, where’s my car…keys? Bluetooth LE and BlackBerry 10 How-To

You know, I (@jcmrim) am the world’s-worst for misplacing things: car keys, house keys, and particularly spectacles, the list is endless. You name it and I can lose it. Martin (@mdwrim) isn’t much better either! So, we thought we’d try a little bit of BlackBerry 10 Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) magic to help us. This  follows on […]

BlackBerry Jam Unplugged: Headless Apps

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.

BlackBerry 10.1 : Gotta have it? Get it!

Hey BlackBerry devs – we’ve got exciting news for you! To tide you over until the much awaited BlackBerry Q10 release, you’ll be seeing a new SDK OS update for your BlackBerry Dev Alpha C devices. This 10.1 SDK OS is a developer preview that allows you to check out how your apps will run […]