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Gaming was a massive part of BlackBerry DevCon 2011 last week, thanks not only to a range of high-grade developer tools becoming available to game makers, but also lots of releases. We got a sneak peak at big-name title, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, during the DevCon general keynote, and took some time…
Our first glimpse of Android apps running on the PlayBook was a little choppy, but now that RIM has opened up the App Player to developers, we’ve got a chance to see performance closer to what was demoed at BlackBerry World. RIM’s Chris Smith walked us through some of the apps that they’ve got working…
Back at BlackBerry World, RIM had promised that a lot of the fancy user interface elements made by their Swedish branch would become available to BlackBerry developers. This week at DevCon 2011, RIM took some time to show off the library, called Cascades. During the keynote, they showed off just some of those UI bits,…
A big part of today’s announcements at the BlackBerry DevCon 2011 was OS 2.0 of RIM’s PlayBook tablet, or at least an early beta of it. The user interface has a few small tweaks, but the main reason for this release is to give developers something they can start loading Android apps into. We’re still…
Today, RIM announced their upcoming operating system for smartphones – a re-jiggered version of the QNX OS on their PlayBook tablet called BBX. Backwards compatibility with classic BlackBerry applications was once in the cards, but RIM’s Alec Saunders has confirmed that Java apps did not make the cut. After trying to emulate the Java ME…
We’re mid-liveblog right now at the BlackBerry DevCon general session, but a press release just crossed the wire outlining RIM’s announcements for the show. BBX will support Adobe AIR 3.0, have a native SDK UI tool called Cascades, and a ton of HTML 5 support. Here’s the press release – we’ll have more soon!