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 detail.

Of course, we could create long blog articles to try and cover the “ins” and “outs” of the functionality, but that can be a little bit tedious. So we figured we could do something a little different and frankly just a little bit weird. We decided to give you some background on the features as part of a video blog series. Now you may ask, what’s weird about that… well, you’ll have to watch the videos to find out.

We’ll be running this video series leading up to BlackBerry Jam Americas in Orlando to give some more background of some of the topics that we’ll be discussing at length during the conference.

This first video will give you some information surrounding the different roadmap items that we’re looking at for improvements in our Momentics tooling.

I hope you enjoy the series and find the information both useful and entertaining!

Here’s our ten favorite #BB10Believe tweets from the past week:

OMG – BB10 invocation is FAST! Not only is the application switch like lightening – but the web page loads speedily too! #GoQNX #BB10believe—
Liz Myers (@LizMyers) November 11, 2012

Rooting for the home team. #BB10Believe—
Chris Atkinson (@c__atkinson) November 09, 2012

BlackBerry apps are integrated perfectly,Tasks,dates,memos &projects are shared with BBMGroups & Twitter account #BB10Believe. @BlackBerry—
Eng. Ever Reyes  (@everreyes) November 12, 2012

@BlackBerryDev #BB10Believe because the BETA device is the FASTEST piece of mobile hardware I've worked with, and this is just a preview.—
Mark Dineen (@DineenMa) November 13, 2012

Another reason to #BB10believe, I got a call from #RIM today asking how my development was going. Real people, not machines.—
Mikel Calderon (@mikelcal) November 10, 2012

Let's unite in Jan 30th, 2013. One touch One finger, let's swipe all the way Peek for newest info, and let it flow #gobb10 #bb10believe—
Romadhoni Yosa (@Yosa7998) November 12, 2012

The revolutionary BlackBerry 10 is becoming very real! January 30 launch date. Don't stop believing #BB10BELIEVE—
NickyHope™ (@NickyHope96) November 12, 2012

#BB10Believe Brand new Os! Can't wait for BlackBerry Flow, Active Frames, BlackBerry Hub! Bring on the heat!—
Andrew Pranoto 17 (@AndrewPranoto) November 13, 2012

Building BB10 Cascades Beta 3 Samples and running on my Dev Alpha developer.blackberry.com/cascades/sampl… – some superb examples give reason to #BB10Believe—
Angus Fox (@nuxnix) November 14, 2012

The Flow is coming. The tide is about to change. #BlackBerry10 #BB10Believe #BB10—
Greg Wesson (@lombaki) November 13, 2012

We’ve been overwhelmed with all of the amazing “Reasons to Believe” in BlackBerry® 10 that we saw on Twitter® this past week. We are well on our way to 10,000 reasons but still need your continued support to achieve this goal! If you haven’t already shared yours, or if you have a second or third reason to believe, please submit it either through our online portal or through Twitter using the hashtag #BB10Believe. And remember, your tweet could be featured in next week’s blog post!

Here are our ten favorites from the past week:

Broken Record, BB10 IS AWESOME!!!! Every tidbit I'm fed just perpetuates my excitement…I may start bleeding from my ears…#BB10Believe—
Chaz Ermini (@ChazBerryJam) November 02, 2012

Just watching some more #blackberryjam video on #BB10 this thing looks sweet! #cantwait #BB10BELIEVE #rim—
Denys Phaneuf (@theGHkidd) November 03, 2012

@BlackBerryDev I'm looking forward to native development using Qt/C++ – these are powerful tools! #BB10Believe—
  (@yalnte) November 05, 2012

Just saw the latest video update on #blackberry upcoming Blackberry 10 phone and I'm sure it will be a big win for RIM. #BB10believe—
Ian Tolentino (@thebil22) November 07, 2012

Blackberry 10 OS looks awesome. It is certainly worth the wait. Can't wait to get one for myself. #BB10Believe—
YJ (@yashrajjadhav) November 07, 2012

@blackberry #10 is almost here I can almost feel it in my hands already!! #anticipation #hurry #bookingthedayoffworktoget #BB10Believe—
Jamie Page (@Jamiepage1000) November 08, 2012

@blackberry the swipe down on keyboard to get to the symbols keys on #OS10 is pure friggin genius! #keepitup #BB10believe—
AllAboutMyBlackBerry (@AllAboutMyBB) November 09, 2012

$RIM #BB10 is CBA : Certified BEFORE Arrival #BB10Believe #TeamBlackberry—
Antoine Bapst (@superfly_FR) November 08, 2012

@BlackBerryDev secure Enterprise support for a stylish and function work experience #BlackBerry10 #BB10Believe—
Eric Wilborn (@ericwilborn) November 05, 2012

Waiting for #BB10 has been hard, but I can and will do it #BB10Believe.—
Age for short (@Ages3Cents) November 07, 2012

Share your idea today!

Every day, users submit their reasons to believe either through our online portal or through Twitter® using the hashtag #BB10Believe. Even a Twibbon campaign has started in support of this effort!

We want to take some time every week to highlight some of our favorite Tweets from the past week. Take a look and if you haven’t tweeted your reason yet, do so today and use #BB10Believe. You might see it featured on the blog!

@BlackBerryDev Cascades helps producing an astonishing app within 1 or 2 days. That's why I #bb10believe—
Louis Tang (@Louis_Keeper) October 30, 2012

Can't wait for the stunning 356ppi screen on the new BlackBerry #BB10believe #cantwaitforBB10—
Jesse Alves (@Element014) October 26, 2012

So excited for the new @BlackBerry 10, my phone contract is definitely going to have to wait until I upgrade #BB10 #BB10Believe #BBSupporter—
Adam Cockinator ὺ.ύ (@AdamCockley) November 02, 2012

#My1stBlackBerry was a 8220, my next will be a #BB10, #TheWaitingIsTheHardestPart #BB10Believe—
Sergio Araki (@arakisergio) November 01, 2012

Its exciting to see how many different languages are excited for #BB10! #BB10Believe look it up!—
Mikel Calderon (@mikelcal) November 01, 2012

#BB10Believe The world will be a better place after BB10 is released—
J. S. Williamson (@PhillyJSWill) October 29, 2012

@BlackBerry Blackberry 10 OS looks awesome. It is certainly worth the wait. Can't wait to get one for myself. #BB10Believe—
Vinay Nambiar (@nambiar_vinay) October 28, 2012

@BlackBerry I will always be #BlackBerryByChoice and be #ProudToBeTeamBlackBerry. I truly #BB10Believe. Bring on #BB10—
HierCraze!!! (@HierCraze) October 28, 2012

#BB10Believe patiently waiting. Still high hopes with RIM. Let's go!—
Carl D' Malik (@CarlDMalik) October 28, 2012

Dear @BlackBerry – I love my Bold 9900 & BlackBerry PlayBook LTE! I can't wait to add BlackBerry10 to add to my repertoire #BB10Believe—
  (@MartinJDub) October 30, 2012

We have to start with a huge shout-out to the BlackBerry WebWorks dev team for some truly remarkable work preparing for this blockbuster. I have been with RIM® for just over 10 years — been there, done that, thought I had seen it all. But I can honestly say that the energy, passion, and dedication to make BlackBerry 10 truly astonishing is unmatched by anything that has come before.

And the passion is company-wide. Don’t take my word for it — this from one of the devs on the BlackBerry WebWorks team:

But back to what you came here for: the low-down on what this release of BlackBerry WebWorks has to offer. Hope you already have your coffee ready (or perhaps adult beverage of choice).

It would be remiss not to lead with the news that the first portion of PIM integration is now supported! With this release, you can create, find, modify, and delete Contacts in your address book. Just like the native application, you can get information on news related to your contact, as well as what instant messaging and social networks you are connected with them on. It’s everything you need to interact with the user’s social graph. Of course, be sure to add the new permissions to your config.xml so the user can opt in, and ensure you elegantly handle it if the user does not allow you access to their PIM data.

var name = new blackberry.pim.contacts.ContactName(); 

name.familyName = “Wallis”;
name.givenName = “Ken”;

var contact = blackberry.pim.contacts.create({
 	“displayName”: “Ken Wallis”,
 	“name”: name });

contact.save(onSaveSuccess, onSaveError);

Drafted a close second (certainly a case could be made for this being selected number 1) is the first stage of support for the BBM Social Platform. In this release, you can register your application with BBM, interact with the user’s profile, be notified of changes to user or friend’s profiles (that also have your app installed), and allow the user to invite friends to download your application. Again, there is a new permission that you will need to include to allow your app to connect:

blackberry.bbm.platform.self.setStatus("busy",
"Building BlackBerry 10, DND!", 
function (accepted) {
    		if(accepted) {
        			// User allowed the change
    		} else {
// User denied the change
    		}
});

BlackBerry Flow is all about leveraging existing functionality – both system and third-party provided – to accomplish tasks in a consistent way, but without having to jump between applications. You can embed what you need from others inside your own application experience, and cards are what drive this experience. Think of a card as a screen that gets layered on top of your application that provides some common functionality to the user. When the user is finished interacting with the card, it animates off the stack of screens and returns any relevant data back to you. The Invocation Framework (which we introduced in a previous release of BlackBerry WebWorks) orchestrates all of this underneath the covers, so you can launch cards using invoke. With this release of BlackBerry WebWorks, you can leverage system and third-party developed cards inside your BlackBerry WebWorks application. You can also implement a card inside your BlackBerry WebWorks application and provide it for use by others! Check out the Invoked namespace in the API Reference for more details on creating your own card.

As indicated, raw invoke functionality can be used to launch cards. However, cards can be accessed in a number of other ways as well:

• A couple of cards provided by the system are the File picker and Camera cards. File picker allows you to provide the user with UI to select a file from the filesystem, and you will get the path back. The Camera Card allows the user to capture pictures or video, and again you get the path back. We felt that these cards might get a lot of use, and are a little more complex to interact with directly using invoke, so we have wrapped an API around them. Check out the blackberry.invoke.card namespace.
• You can also leverage the File picker and Camera cards using the new support for Media Capture in the browser – just include the capture attribute on an field. If you specify “camera” or “camcorder”, you will get the Camera card; otherwise specifying anything else will invoke the File picker. Note that an input field with capture type “microphone” is currently not supported.

<input type=”file” accept=”image/*” capture=”camera”>

In the last major release, we provided the built-in Context Menu with standard system options. This context menu is displayed when the user long presses on an item in your application. In this release, you now have the ability to customize the menu for different contexts in your application. You can remove items from the list, and even provide your own menu items for a given context (such as Image, link, and so on). In future releases, we are looking at ways to allow you to define your own custom context in your application content.

Context Menu

User experience is a prime focus for BlackBerry 10. The user should feel at home no matter where they are, and be able to customize their device for accessibility reasons as well. For example, the user can set a language, as well as a region used for formatting of dates, and so on. Font size can also be adjusted for preference or for accessibility reasons. Applications should strive to adhere to these preferences as well, so with this release, we have provided APIs and events that will allow you to know what the language, region, font, and font size are as defined in the global settings. You can adjust your applications accordingly to have a seamless experience.

An oft-requested feature is to be able to lock your application in a specific orientation. Good news — you can do it now. Check out our documentation on the config.xml file to find out how.

In order to improve memory overhead and load times, the underlying web rendering engine no longer loads the Adobe® Flash® plug-in be default. If you need to support Flash rendering in your application, you can enable it by adding the following feature element to your config.xml (note that this will be application wide, and will be ignored if found inside an <access> element):

<feature id=”enable-flash”>

If you are building a multi-page application, and even on application initial load, you may notice flickers on page transitions if your pages have any background color other than white. We have introduced the ability to specify in config.xml what your page color is, and we will use this to display between page loads to hide the flicker. Give it a try.

<feature id="blackberry.app">
    <param name="backgroundColor" value="0xffffff" />
</feature>

Be sure to check out the API Reference to get the low down on everything our Web Platform can offer to build not just web applications, but integrated web apps showcasing everything that makes BlackBerry 10 unique and powerful. And if you haven’t already, download the tools and get started — there is no better time!

While these earlier betas offered significant improvements over previous editions, they were still a work in progress. We are finally at a stage where we can truly say that with Beta 3 of our Native SDK, our young child has finally come of age. Our APIs have evolved to a point where they are stable and functional enough to advertise backwards compatibility. We also support a full feature set of APIs in the Native SDK – from connectivity APIs such as email and calendar to APIs that support deeper integration such as invocation to social APIs such as BlackBerry® Messenger™ (BBM).

Beta 3 of the Native SDK contains numerous new and important APIs that many of you have been anxiously waiting for. Some of the highlights include:

Cards

If you attended some of our other conferences, the BlackBerry Jam 10 World Tour or BlackBerry Jam Sessions, you have probably heard us talk about the flow and deep integration that the BlackBerry 10 platform provides. The invocation framework provides a facility via cards through which you can incorporate some of this flow and integration in your app. With cards, you will be able to expose discrete functionality within your app to other apps as well as incorporate functionality provided by your other apps within your own. As an example, if you are developing a picture viewer app, you might expose a simple picture previewer card to the invocation framework. Any app that registers with the invocation framework can invoke your card to preview a picture. Likewise, your app can leverage existing cards on the platform to access various pieces of functionality, whether it is a simple preview of a video or other discrete functions like picking a contact or composing an email.

Visually, a card typically appears as a previewer that takes up most of the screen. However, it appears as part of the application on which it is stacked. Essentially, you can use a gesture to slide the card in, partially or fully into your app as seen in the picture below:

A Card is considered part of the application that invokes it and does not appear as a separate entity in the running applications grid. In addition, when the card’s function is complete, the user is automatically returned to its parent. In this way, a card “feels” like part of the application.

BBM Social Platform

BBM has always been core to the Blackberry platform and it still remains a critical piece of our BlackBerry 10 portfolio. The BBM Social Platform APIs allow you to leverage the social features and functionality of BlackBerry Messenger from within your app. For example, you can initiate a BBM chat and share files such as pictures, voice notes, and music between users who are running your app. You can also stream data between users of your app for real-time applications such as communication, gaming and location tracking. As part of the BBM social platform, you will be able to harness BBM features such as BBM user profile, contact list, messaging and application profile box.

Email, Calendar and Contacts

There is a significant amount of interest from our third party developers for Calendar, Email and Contact APIs, and we are excited to announce their availability in this beta. The Message Center is a signature feature of the BlackBerry experience, and we are adding support on the API side for it as well. The Message Center APIs provide the ability to launch the unified inbox, send emails and receive task notifications. You can use our calendar functionality to create new calendar events, edit existing events, delete existing events and view existing calendar events. We also have the ability to notify third parties when events are being created, modified and deleted. Finally, our contact API allows you to create, edit, delete and view contacts as well as add additional meta information to a contact.

Advertising

In this competitive world of app development, you likely care about creative ways in which you can make money off your apps and we want to help bring you the tools to do just this. After all, the success of our platform depends on your success. To facilitate that, we are adding an Advertising Service along with APIs that allow you to display banner and splash ads in your application or game. You can also create hot links to keyword advertising. Under the scenes, our Advertising service launches a Browser webview to display the advertisements. Along with our Payment and Scoreloop APIs that we introduced in earlier Betas, we believe that we have some powerful tools that can help you monetize your application.

Push

At RIM®, we are proud of our Push technology, and we are now making our powerful Push framework available through the NDK. Through the APIs we provide, your app will be able to register with the Push service and receive push data. When the Push service receives incoming Push messages, it will invoke the application registered for the message using the addressing information provided during the registration. Any app that needs to be responsive to incoming data streams should strongly consider taking a look at our Push framework and associated events.

…and many others

On the ‘Core Native’ front, we’ve introduced a Bluetooth® API which supports Bluetooth on/off, power status, and retrieving paired and found devices. It also provides several Bluetooth profiles such as Serial Port Profile (SPP), Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) and Generic Attribute Profile (GATT). Other core native APIs include APIs for Holster detection, retrieving application info and for querying Wi-Fi® and battery status.
Our spell check engine now exposes APIs at both the C and C++ layer to allow apps to perform spell check functionality in their own customized UI.

At the Cascades™ layer, we have introduced a WallPaper API that allows users to set an image as the wallpaper. We have also introduced APIs for sensors, including support for rotation, orientation, magnetometer, gyroscope and accelerometer. The geocoding API allows the user to perform geocoding and reverse geocoding while the radio info API includes the ability to query available radios, their status, ESN/IMSI, Sim card info, Mobile Country Code and Mobile Network code.

We hope you find enough content in this release to satisfy your needs. As we continue to evolve our platform, we intend to be as open and transparent with you about what’s coming down the pipe. I want to point you to our really cool-looking Native & Cascades flight boards where you can get an up-to-date status on our roadmap items. We have also added a section to our site that highlights the key features of our Core Native and Cascades frameworks. It should be useful for those of you who are trying to decide whether Core Native or Cascades is the right framework to use for developing your app.

As always, we want to continue to hear from you about your needs and receive feedback on our Native SDK.

We’ve updated our flight arrival boards to provide statuses on all of the feature functionality delivered with the September BlackBerry® 10 development tools update. Along with this, we’ve updated some milestones leading up to the Gold SDK releases.

In my previous blog post, I mentioned that we were still considering whether or not to do another set of SDK updates after our September release and before the final Gold SDK build. Based on feedback from our developer community, we’ve decided to add another SDK release on the road to Gold. We’ve updated the SDK release schedule to reflect these needs while ensuring that there’s no impact to the first BlackBerry 10 smartphone being delivered on-time in Q1 2013. The updated SDK schedule is as follows:

November: SDK Gold Candidate

• Updates to all SDKs
• Mainly bug fixes

December: SDK Gold

• Updates to all SDKs
• Mainly bug fixes

December: Keyboard device SDK Beta

• Updates to necessary SDKs targeted at compatibility testing for QWERTY devices
• User Experience tweaks to Cascades/Adobe AIR controls to account for screen resolution changes

The November release will be a gold candidate release which will contain mainly bug fixes and further stabilized SDKs for you to continue testing. This will be the SDK candidate that RIM® will continue to test and be finalized in December as the Gold SDK. Be sure to check-out the updated flight arrival boards for the details associated to the SDK of your choice.

Wait a second, you show a Keyboard device SDK Beta. What the heck is that?

In December 2012, we’ll also be releasing the necessary Beta SDKs to allow you to perform compatibility testing of your application for the first BlackBerry 10 QWERTY device. Since this new device will be a different screen resolution (720×720 vs 1280×768) than the first all-touch BlackBerry 10 device, we want to make sure you have simulators and updated SDKs to test your applications.

This SDK release will also include any UI tweaks for the Cascades™ and Adobe® AIR® controls to match the new Keyboard device screen resolution. The controls mainly affected are Action Bars, which are adjusted take up less screen real estate.

Why do I see some new items appearing in the upcoming November release?

With this current September release, we do consider the Native SDK, Adobe AIR and Android™ Runtime API complete. However, there are a few small additional items that will be coming into the November release. These are mainly small additions that will not affect the main APIs, which are now considered complete. BlackBerry® WebWorks™ is one of the exceptions that will be continuing to deliver new APIs both in the Gold Candidate and Gold release.

Where do I find these Flight Arrival Boards?

You can check out each of the Flight Arrival Boards by clicking on the “Roadmap” links on each of the websites or check out the links below:

Native SDK
Cascades Application Framework Roadmap
Core lower level API Roadmap
HTML5/BlackBerry WebWorks SDK Roadmap
Adobe AIR SDK Roadmap
Android Runtime Roadmap

Organized by Apstrak Studio, a partner in Thailand, BlackBerry Jam Sessions Thailand provides Thai developers in Bangkok and Chiangmai insights into app development for BlackBerry® 10 platform — its strengths, vision, and how to make BlackBerry apps that stand out and get downloaded. Join us as Justin Lee (@triplez82), BlackBerry Application Development Consultant, and Johan Kremer, Senior Manager, Alliances and Business Development from Research In Motion® (RIM®), tell you more about BlackBerry 10 and how to make money on the platform.

Jam Chiangmai
Tuesday September 18, 2012
18.00 – 22.00
Centara Duangtawan Hotel
Registration: http://www.blackberryjamthailand2012.com/blackberry-jam-thailand-2012-chiangmai/

Jam Bangkok (SOLD OUT!)
Wednesday September 19, 2012
18.00 – 22.00
Dusit Thani Hotel

Following hot on the heels of the Thailand sessions, there are two more mini BlackBerry 10 Jam sessions in Vietnam, organized by BlackBerry Dev Group Viet Nam. Happening in Ho Chi Minh and Hanoi, the Jam Sessions bring to Vietnam developers a localized version of the BlackBerry 10 Jam World Tour series. Vietnam developers will hear from Justin Lee at these events too. To register, send your details to the group’s manager Louis Tang at louis.keeper@gmail.com! For more details, check out BlackBerry Dev Group Viet Nam’s post here: http://blackberryvietnam.net/threads/blackberry-10-mini-jam-viet-nam-2012.12427/

Ho Chi Minh City
Thursday Sep 20, 2012
6pm-10pm
Café Tinh Tế, Hồ Chí Minh

Hanoi
Friday Sep 21, 2012
6pm-10pm
Café Amigo, Hà Nội

And that’s not all! We’re not forgetting our dear friends in Indonesia. BBDevID is holding a series of BlackBerry 10 Jam Sessions in Indonesia! Named “BlackBerry 10 Mini Jam Indonesia,” the series also brings snippets from BlackBerry 10 Jam World Tour to the Indonesian developers in six cities. They have already kicked off the first event last weekend in Yogyakarta and there’s more to come. Look out for the BBDevID and RIM troop in the following cities and dates:

Saturday September 16 – Yogjakarta
Tuesday September 18 – Semarang
Saturday September 22 – Malang
Tuesday October 2 – Bandung
Saturday October 6 – Denpasar Bali
Monday October 8 – Jakarta

For more details: http://bbdevid.tumblr.com/post/31129297043/bb10minijam

It’s non-stop action here in Asia, and the developers simply can’t get enough. If you’re in the region in the cities above, you must not miss the action here!

Quality matters. You heard it from Alec Saunders in May at BlackBerry® 10 Jam in Orlando. Quite simply, better apps have a greater chance of success. We feel the best way to help you reach that success is to be fully committed to supporting our developer community’s efforts. Quality is the cornerstone of the developer experience improvements we’ve been working on, and RIM is dedicated to working with developers to bring the best apps to our customers.

Two of the ways Alec outlined our commitment to quality in the developer community and app ecosystem are with regard to app reviews and the 10K commitment.

Today we’re excited to share more information on these initiatives: the Built for BlackBerry Program and the $10K Developer Commitment.

In the Built for BlackBerry program, coming this fall, you will be able to submit BlackBerry® 10 WebWorks™ or BlackBerry® 10 Native apps for approval under the Built for BlackBerry program. Approval through the Built for BlackBerry program will signify to customers a higher level of quality. With a crowded app market, this designation may increase the chances of your app being downloaded. This will be free (for now). BlackBerry 10 apps that pass will receive “Built for BlackBerry” quality status, which you can display with your app on your site, in BlackBerry App World – anywhere you market your apps. This is a great opportunity for professional developers to powerfully differentiate their apps in BlackBerry App World.

You don’t need to complete any additional registration beyond your existing BlackBerry App World Vendor account. You just need to submit your app as usual, indicate that you’d like your app to go through the Built for BlackBerry program and agree to the Terms and Conditions, and you’re all set.

Those apps that have been “Built for BlackBerry” approved, may also be eligible for our revenue guarantee for BlackBerry 10 apps. With the $10K Developer Commitment, we’re putting our money where our mouth is. We know our dev community is the best out there, and we’re as committed to your success as you are. This initiative will also be launching in the fall so keep an eye out for the announcement to let you know when apps will start being accepted.

Here are some of the details on this offer: You must submit your BlackBerry 10 app to BlackBerry App World requesting approval through the Built for BlackBerry program by January 21st, 2013. Your app needs to earn(1) a minimum of $1,000 USD in BlackBerry App World – such earnings include digital goods sold through the Payment Service SDK (in-app payments).

If your app earns at least $1,000 USD, but less than $10,000 USD, remains on sale for a 12 month period as outlined by RIM and maintains its’ Built for BlackBerry designation for the duration of the 12 months and otherwise meets the eligibility criteria, RIM will pay you the difference between what you earned and $10,000 USD(2). Developers are only eligible to receive this one time. If your app earns less than $1,000 USD, you don’t qualify. If your app earns more than $10,000 USD — awesome! – you still don’t qualify (and don’t need the money anyway!).

The 10K Developer Commitment is a limited-funds offer and will continue only until the $10 million fund pool is exhausted. Funds will be distributed in order of priority based on the date upon which apps reach $1,000 USD in earnings.

Quality matters. And we have every confidence in our developer community’s ability to be successful, so keep those BlackBerry 10 apps coming! With your creativity and ingenuity, backed by our mutual commitment to quality, the BlackBerry 10 app ecosystem is going to be the best in the world.

More information on these initiatives is available on the BlackBerry Developer site.

(1) “Earns” refers to the amount that consumers pay for both paid downloads and in-app payments using BlackBerry Payment Service less any refunds and less applicable taxes included in the amount consumers pay, multiplied by the proportion of sales owing to the Vendor as defined by the Vendor Agreement. “Earns” does not include any advertising revenue. See Terms and Conditions for complete details.

(2) A maximum of $10,000,000USD will be distributed under this Offer. Limit one (1) payout per Vendor. Twelve month period to be determined by RIM.

We know you need samples to learn from, borrow from, and modify. During the BlackBerry® 10 Jam in Orlando, we released many samples to help you start building for BlackBerry 10. More samples are in the queue but I wanted to give you a summary of the ones available today.

All code samples have been released under Open Source. Most of them use Apache Software License 2; a few use other licenses for different reasons.

Cascades™ - Samples released include:

• Cascades-Samples: This repository has most of the official Cascades samples. The samples come directly from the team designing Cascades and are infused with that TAT ‘style’. There are 15 samples. Samples were highlighted during the Super Jam session (video).
• Cascades-Community-Samples: These samples are contributions from the community. The first contribution corresponds to the demo from Macadamian presented during the Super Jam session. The demo shows how to integrate OpenGL with Cascades (video).

BlackBerry 10 Native SDK - Samples released include:

• Native SDK – Samples: The next branch of this repository now has the native samples for the BlackBerry 10 Native beta.
• Scoreloop™ – Samples: This repository contains a single example that shows integration of Scoreloop with the BPS Event System in the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet.
• Gameplay: The game framework includes a samples directory. When Gameplay 1.2 was released, new samples were released too.

HTML5 - Samples released:

• PictureWall: This sample application shows how to display a collection of pictures onto a “wall” of BlackBerry PlayBook tablets.
• bbUI.js: The update to this HTML5 library also includes additional samples. Also see the blog post introducing bbUI.js.
• jQuery-Mobile-Samples: This repository is being used to contribute to the jQuery Mobile Cookbook project.

Want to learn more? Check out the schedule for the BlackBerry 10 Jam RoadShow.