BlackBerry’s commitment to their third party developers is admirable and the gold standard (and perhaps even beyond that) of how developers should be treated. Under the leadership of Alec Saunders and the Developer Relations team, RIM has essentially written the book on how to grow a third party mobile app ecosystem. Today, RIM is sending out emails to confirm the payment information for de... »
RIM has posted up a BlackBerry 10 UI guidelines for developers and included are the BB10 Action Icons, such as email, lock, delete and much more. This comes quite in handy for anyone building an app and want it to look great in the upcoming OS. You can find a PDF with the guidelines and the action icons here. Let us know how this helps you and what kind of app you’re building. »
It has been RIM’s mission to focus on developers for the upcoming launch of BlackBerry 10. By providing a slew of SDKs and hosting a series of hackathons they’ve been able to bring the platform to the developers. Well, the hackathon fever has hit one of my favorite cities. Athens, Greece! Our friends over at GreekBerry.com let us know that for the first time ever developers in Greece ... »
RIM has added a new section to the BlackBerry Developer website where can check out and sort of “meet” the BlackBerry Developers Relations team. It can be organized by department, team and region. In the site, you’ll find information about the team member and some of them have a Twitter account for you to follow and get in touch. It’s very nice to see how RIM and their team... »
Research In Motion will soon host three webcasts for developers in November. These three webcasts will help inform developers about two great ways to benefit from developing on BlackBerry 10. The webcasts include: 10k Developer Commitment - Earn up to 10k – Join thewebcast to learn how your app may be eligible for the 10k Developer Commitment where you’re guaranteed to make $10,000 USD in the firs... »
John Mutter, Enterprise Mobility Architect Leader at Research In Motion, is here at BlackBerry 10 Jam – Enterprise Edition to talk to developers about creating enterprise apps for BlackBerry 10. His job is to ensure that BlackBerry developers have the right tools and environment to create secure and functional BlackBerry 10 enterprise apps. ”I’m a developer by trade”, says... »
VisionMobile has launched a Developer Economics Survey focusing on the best practices for tools, services and API that developers use to build apps. RIM is one of the gold sponsors of this survey. By filling out the survey you are entered into a drawing for a chance to win a BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha device and a 32 GB BlackBerry PlayBook 4G LTE tablet. Pretty awesome right? Fill out the survey by h... »
Great news for those who weren’t able to go to BlackBerry Jam Americas. RIM has posted some videos and PDFs from the developer sessions at the event FREE of charge. This is a great opportunity to learn all of the awesome stuff that you would normally have to pay for by attending an event. Whether you were at BB Jam Americas or not, check out the session PDFs and videos. Let us know in the co... »
Last Thursday, as the sun set on the heart of silicon valley in downtown San Jose, BlackBerry Jam Americas quietly drew to a close. With the launch of the BlackBerry 10 platform set for early 2013, this was unmistakably one of Research in Motion’s (RIM) most important developer conferences in history. For four days, the San Jose Convention Centre was alive with developers, press and RIM empl... »
At BlackBerry Jam Americas, developers who filled out a survey about their experience at the conference have been given Arduino electrical circuit boards for open source prototyping. The Arduino boards are do-it-yourself boards for build any type of electronic device, from robots to light shows. With a USB input and a power connection, you can connect it to the computer and program it to control... »
We all know there are developers all around the world, whether they are responsible for big hits or not, but they are there working hard to bring awesome new apps and games to all of you. Sadly, not all of them get the recognition they deserve, specially Latin American developers. We always see featured games and known titles coming from the same people, but what about the guy who didn’t sle... »
A new BlackBerry Dev Alpha OS update has been released for Developers! OS 10.0.6.670 is now available and though we don’t know for sure what’s new, we can assure you it brings some bug fixes and minor improvements. Make sure you download this build and let us know if you find anything new. via CB »
RIM has always given a very special attention to BlackBerry developers and their needs. It’s no secret that they work very hard to make it easy and profitable to be a BB dev, which is why this shouldn’t be a surprise. Research in Motion is investing $100 million to build a developer community for BlackBerry platform. With the upcoming BlackBerry 10 OS coming in Q1 2013, developers are ... »
While Research In Motion already claimed they were the most profitable platform for developers, mobile analytics firm Vision Mobile has confirmed the stats. The average monthly revenue from a BlackBerry app is $3,853, compared to $3,693 for iOS and $2,735 for Android. Vision Mobile estimates that more than half of all BlackBerry developers make less than $500 a month on their individual apps, comp... »
WebMobi has announced the release of their HTML5 App Creation Platform for BlackBerry devices. Developers can quickly create mobile apps for BlackBerry smartphones and BlackBerry PlayBook with these components, boosting their apps audience. These are some of the components: Pre-build components including RSS feeds, general, social media and more. Developer components, where the developer can creat... »
RIM has announced a new developers challenge for Latin America called Reto BlackBerry. This one is actually quite interesting because it doesn’t require participants to have any programming knowledge at all. You will get 3 months to learn to code to create your app with help of experts in mobile development. To participate, you must live in Venezuela and create an app for the BlackBerry Play... »
Can’t wait to start building BlackBerry 10 apps? Well get even more excited now. BlackBerry 10 Cascades SDK is now available, along with simulators, tutorials and everything else you need to get started with making awesome BlackBerry 10 Cascades apps. Here are some of the features: Native UI elements Develop using both QML declarative and C++ Animations! Flawless user experience Fantastic v... »
As a BlackBerry fan, it’s hard to look at the latest headlines that talk about RIM and their BlackBerry smartphones. Many of them talk of RIM’s impending demise like some sort of tech-industry rapture as if the blessed companies Apple and Google were the only ones to remain in the mobile space. I’ve pretty much heard all the lines by now, from “no apps”, or “too little, too late” to anything rel... »
Regardless of what you might be hearing about Research In Motion’s market share declines and the cloud of doom and gloom that surrounds the company, I am here to tell you just the opposite. I had the pleasure of spending 2 days with a portion of RIM’s Developer Team in the Inaguaral Future Developer Day at Pace University in NYC. Upon arrival, I was greeted with a free PlayBook and ... »
In RIM’s presentation today we saw a slide that shows that the BlackBerry maker is committed to continue support BBOS and that 22 % of all paid downloads come from the PlayBook. That is a huge number if you consider there are about 74 million more handheld users than tablet users! So developers, what are you waiting for? Port your apps and start earning money today! Source: BerryReview »
