As a contribution to this positive momentum, we are very happy and proud to announce that the latest version 2.2 of the BlackBerry WebWorks SDK for Smartphones (release notes) is now available for download. Known as the Golf release, this update enables many new features that can be used by developers to build highly functional, and business related capabilities into their BlackBerry WebWorks applications.

What’s new in this release?

• Mac OSX Support – Need we say more? This very exciting and highly demanded feature is now available. A Mac version of the WebWorks SDK installer is available for developers to use and build WebWorks applications using OSX.
• Payment API – the same API that was recently made available for the BlackBerry® WebWorks™ SDK for PlayBook OS can now be used to sell digital goods through WebWorks applications running on BlackBerry Smartphones. This feature gives developers an incredible monetization opportunity for increasing the revenue of their applications. Read more about our payment service.
• BB7 net_rim_api.jar – The underlying API library used by the BlackBerry WebWorks SDK has been updated to the BlackBerry® 7 developer APIs. This means that WebWorks developers can now create their own JavaScript Extensions and make use of APIs found in BlackBerry Device Software versions 5.0, BlackBerry 6 and BlackBerry 7.
• BBM APIs – Developers can now find the BlackBerry WebWorks APIs needed to integrate their applications with the BBM Social platform automatically included as part of the BlackBerry WebWorks SDK. Read more about the BBM Social Platform SDK.
• Side by side installs – The installer has been modified to produce a standalone install of the WebWorks SDK for Smartphone. This feature gives developers the ability to build different versions of their applications based on different versions of the BlackBerry WebWorks SDK, which is often a requirement for supporting production code.
• Memory leak fixes – many performance and stability improvements have been made to the BlackBerry WebWorks SDK to fix memory problems encountered with WebWorks applications running on BlackBerry 6 and 7 OS smartphones.

Payment API code sample

Use the payment API to monetize digital goods from within your BlackBerry smartphone application. The following example demonstrates how to sell additional levels in a puzzle game. A button linked to the payment API purchase() method enables users upgrade the application to a premium version:

function upgradeApp()
{
   var paymentObj = {
	"digitalGoodID"   : "12345",
	"digitalGoodSKU"  : "101010101",
	"digitalGoodName" : "Levels 11-20",
	"metaData"        : "pin=" + blackberry.identity.PIN,
	"purchaseAppName" : "Puzzle Mania"
   };
   blackberry.payment.purchase(paymentObj, onSuccess, onFailure);
}
...

<button onclick="upgradeApp()"> Upgrade to Premium </button>

More Info

Stay up to date with the BlackBerry WebWorks Platform by bookmarking http://developer.blackberry.com/html5 and http://blackberry.github.com/.

Come and get it! We’ve just released an update to the BlackBerry Java SDK v7.0 and BlackBerry® Java® Development Environment (JDE) v7.0. Download the new versions today to take advantage of the latest upgrade.

You’ll find updates to the API documentation, code samples and an auto-complete feature. Multiple fixes to the BlackBerry smartphone simulator and MDS-CS Simulator are also included and the BlackBerry Java SDK now includes Mac. Download it today!

• BlackBerry® Java® Plug-in for Eclipse® v1.5 (Windows) – this includes the BlackBerry Java SDK v7.0
• BlackBerry Java SDK v7.0 – note BlackBerry Java Plug-in v1.5 must be installed first
• BlackBerry JDE v7.0 MR

Have a look at the release notes for a complete list of changes in this release.

You can find out more about the features and APIs that were new in BlackBerry 7 at our BlackBerry 7 development page.