*UPDATE* – RIM has released the following statement to us: RIM can confirm that Hampus Jakobsson has left his role as Director, Strategic Alliances at RIM. We wish him the best. The BlackBerry 10 UI team, which includes many members of The Astonishing Tribe, as well as others around the world, remains on track to deliver BlackBerry 10 in the first quarter of 2013. The Astonishing Tribe, whic... »
Ever want to write your own BlackBerry 10 app and have it in App World but even the sight of code makes you think Chinese would be easier to learn? Have no fear, it is easy! App development does not require years of coding experience (even though it helps a lot). Ready to go? You’ll have your own fluid, native, Cascades app running in no time (and for free too)! INSTRUCTIONS ARE FOR PC USERS O... »
The demand has been overwhelming for the Cascades UI webcast. Looking to create amazing BlackBerry 10 apps with an astonishing user experience? RIM’s powerful new framework, Cascades makes it easy and doesn’t require C/C++ experience. You’ll want to attend the webcast to learn the basics of Cascades and interact with a RIM expert to answer your questions. Here are the following a... »
Tim Neil, Research in Motions’ Director of Application Platform & Tools Product Management, showed at MWC a BlackBerry platform roadmap going up to BlackBerry 10. In the slides he showed some info like BB10 will be QNX based, HTML5 and use the Cascades UI framework. It’ll also include the BBM Social Platform that already know and love, and SuperApp integration. We hope to hear more... »
The 2012 Mobile World Congress(MWC) is in full swing today, as The Astonishing Tribe (TAT) demos an impressive document sharing app on the PlayBook. With multiple PlayBooks on a table, each PlayBook knows the location of all the other PlayBooks. By bringing two PlayBooks closer together, they enter a sharing mode which enables a seamless transfer of a presenation or file from one tablet to another... »
Mobile World Congress 2012 is nearly here, with it just a few weeks away in Barcelona, Spain. At last year’s MWC event, RIM announced the new features of BBM 6.0 and did demos of the PlayBook. Interested to know what RIM will be showing this year? Here’s a quick preview: 2012 will be the year of BlackBerry 10 so we’ll be showcasing the capabilities of our future operating system as wel... »
During DevCon 2011, The Astonishing Tribe (TAT) showed Cascades, which is a rich UI that developers can take advantage of for 3D animations within apps. Cascades features: Great performance, including amazing transitions and animations Flexible UI layouts including free form lists. 3D support Support for mixing pre-packaged UI components with custom components Core UI feature support Cascades will... »
On a BlackBerry? Click here for mobile video view The other day RIM put out a video showing a demo of a ‘scrapbook’ app for the BlackBerry PlayBook. At the QNX booth in Mobile World Congress 2011, TAT has been showing off a few more gorgeous looking apps that we may possibly see officially release. The PlayBook is really starting to look very nice, what do you think of the apps so far?... »
On a BlackBerry? Click here for mobile video view RIM is showing a video demonstration of the new BlackBerry PlayBook ‘Scrapbook’ application, currently being shown at MWC 2011. The app allows BlackBerry PlayBook users to create fun and exciting scrapbook-style montages. The video shows how photos and captions can be created and manipulated with ease, by using up to four fingers on the touchscreen... »
Much speculation has risen with the latest release of concept videos from The Astonishing Tribe (TAT). Research In Motion has recently announced that they have acquired TAT to better help with their QNX operating system’s user interface. In a new batch of concept videos from TAT, they show seamless 2D to 3D with the TAT Cascades. »
Research In Motion surprised many today with their subtle announcement that they have acquired The Astonishing Tribe (TAT). With the announcements, RIM’s Chief Technology Officer, David Yach, had this to say: »
