RIM launches developer tools for BlackBerry 10

News Wireless Global 1 MAY 2012
RIM launches developer tools for BlackBerry 10
Research In Motion has released the first developer tools for the upcoming release of BlackBerry 10, the latest version of its mobile operating system. Smartphones running BlackBerry 10 are expected to launch in the "latter part" of 2012, RIM said at its annual developer conference in Orlando, Florida. The toolkit for native and HTML5 app development is available in beta as a free download. The toolkit includes the BlackBerry 10 Native SDK with Cascades, which allows developers to create native apps in C/C++ using Qt. The native SDK comes with a set of APIs that give developers access to core device features and a range of BlackBerry application services, such as push and payment services. The toolkit also includes support for HTML5 application developers with the BlackBerry 10 WebWorks SDK. This supports HTML5 and CSS for building apps and provides JavaScript bindings to native device APIs along with RIM's open source UI toolkit, bbUI.js, to create applications with native-like capabilities. Applications created with any of the BlackBerry 10 tools will run on BlackBerry 10 smartphones as well as BlackBerry PlayBook tablets. RIM is giving developers who attend the conference a free BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha device to try out the new OS. Some of the developers already working on BlackBerry 10 include Gameloft, Endomondo, Mippin, Occiptel, PixelMags, Poynt, Truphone and Wikitude.

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Mobile

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Gameloft,  Research In Motion,  Poynt

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Global

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Launch, IT - applications, Wholesale, Handsets

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