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Want to develop for BlackBerry Smartphones in 2012? Check out Beginning BlackBerry 7 Development from Apress

by Kevin Michaluk on 3 Jan 2012 06:04 PM
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Beginning BlackBerry 7 Development

Just before I headed out on holidays, the courier dropped off a couple of copies to me of Apress' latest book for BlackBerry, called Beginning BlackBerry 7 Development. The original Beginning BlackBerry Development book was written by Anthony Rizk, and it has been updated and re-written by Rob Kao and Dante Sarigumba for BlackBerry 7. I'm not quite sure how my name made the cover of this one, but I'll take it (Mama CrackBerry is so proud).

As we learned at DevCon 2011, with 70+ million app hungry BlackBerry users in the world, there are a lot of downloads to be made and dollars to be earned in developing for BlackBerry Smartphones. And with BlackBerry 10 Phones being delayed until later in 2012, it's looking for developers like the BlackBerry 7 Smartphone life cycle (and opportunity to generate ROI) is now going to be longer than it may have been if BlackBerry 10 phones were hitting sooner.

So if you're interested in broadening your skills in 2012 and making BlackBerry users happy while earning yourself some $$, check out Beginning BlackBerry 7 Development, available from Amazon (and elsewhere), at the links below!

Learn More / Purchase Beginning BlackBerry 7 Development (Paperback)
Learn More / Purchase Beginning BlackBerry 7 Development (Kindle)

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Posted by sk8er_tor Tuesday, Jan 03, 2012 144 days ago

We are hungry!

 
 
Posted by wilsonryanp Tuesday, Jan 03, 2012 144 days ago

Is it also available from Kobo? Because it would no fun if I can't read it on my playbook!!!

 
 
Posted by diegonei Wednesday, Jan 04, 2012 144 days ago

read.amazon.com works very well on the PB.

 
 
Posted by estarno Tuesday, Jan 03, 2012 144 days ago

so you're telling me they've made a paper weight made out of paper?

 
 
Posted by djtaube Wednesday, Jan 04, 2012 144 days ago

Pretty much my thought... I don't want to get a BB7 phone for the same reason I wouldn't develop for it, BB10.

It serious seems that if you wanted to dev for BB all these years you better not have committed heavily in things staying the same.

 
 
Posted by jasonec Tuesday, Jan 03, 2012 144 days ago

I bought that book a month ago - it is very good - there are some great code examples, and he covers all features well including new market-specific features.

 
 
Posted by ejup2009 Tuesday, Jan 03, 2012 144 days ago

this book has an edigion in spanish?

 
 
Posted by elCheapoDeluxe Tuesday, Jan 03, 2012 144 days ago

Awesome. I've been thinking about writing a better Google Voice client with push notifications since the Google supported client is so awful. I've never written anything for blackberry, but have plenty of .NET and SOAP experience. I just need something to help me stumble along at the beginning.

 
 
Posted by mss-ca Tuesday, Jan 03, 2012 144 days ago

The question is that why would a developer spend time making apps specifically work on BBs when he/she can make apps for other ecosystems with millions of users?

I read somewhere here that there are programs which you can use to create an app once and export it to ALL platforms with a click of a button. If that is true, then yes. If not, I would not spend too much time on a dying platform.

I love Blackberry, but RIM needs to go Android or go bankrupt.

 
 
Posted by daddyrhodes Tuesday, Jan 03, 2012 144 days ago

I guess 70 million blackberry users don't count as millions in your thinking. By the way not all android makers are having success, when you look at individual manufactuers RIM has greater market share than each of ANDROID producers. Blackberry 7 is very good operating system it compares vary well to any single core phone, its to bad the media doesn't look further into what the phones can do. BB10 is designed to be more of open source for developers to make apps once it gains traction watch out. So RIM do not go android just get your management act together and lets go!

 
 
Posted by sk8er_tor Tuesday, Jan 03, 2012 144 days ago

Over 75 million active users plus who knows how many additional users are just on WiFi. And now App World supports WiFi connections so even more people have access to apps. Before making stupid comments, you should know what you're talking about.

 
 
Posted by berry4eva Tuesday, Jan 03, 2012 144 days ago

totally agree, sure there are some millions BB user, esp. in Asia, but they only care for BBM, and most of those millions are real phone user who only need bbm, mails, and call function. they dont care about app. besides there are too many variety of BB. I'd rather make some android app (they could be played later in playbook) and iOS app. RIM platform is dying. i cant imagine any dev would bother with rim platform.

 
 
Posted by anastasiophan Tuesday, Jan 03, 2012 144 days ago

It's about competition. Why develop for a platform that has 500,000 apps when you can write a program and have only 20,000 competitors? It's not like BlackBerrys don't have a huge market share. The odds are in your favor developing for BB.

 
 
Posted by SaltySnack Tuesday, Jan 03, 2012 144 days ago

That just might make a good contest ;-)
Sent from my 9810

 
 
Posted by brunolovesbrit Tuesday, Jan 03, 2012 144 days ago

PLEASE; BETTER APPS! Thanks

 
 
Posted by BerryGuy25 Tuesday, Jan 03, 2012 144 days ago

Not available in iBooks?

 
 
Posted by BlogBerry.hk Wednesday, Jan 04, 2012 144 days ago

They should really make it available on Kobo so I can read it on my PlayBook!

 
 
Posted by wilsonryanp Wednesday, Jan 04, 2012 144 days ago

I still haven't looked for it yet... but really, it isn't there yet??? I was only joking when i mentioned this book and kobo... :(

 
 
Posted by diegonei Wednesday, Jan 04, 2012 144 days ago

No give away for such a gem?

 
 
Posted by konic Wednesday, Jan 04, 2012 144 days ago

On Amazon.CA the same book (paperback) costs $32 (+14% tax)! No Kindle edition!?
Amazon.COM offers for $22.
And as far as RIM is Canadian company there is something to think about.