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Leading up to their fourth webcast on developing for the BlackBerry PlayBook, today RIM has made available the beta 2 release of the BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK for Adobe AIR. Highlights in version 0.9.1 include:
- BlackBerry OS UI Component bug fixes: Some tweaks were made to the API to make it better for you, and some beta bugs were fixed as well.
- Windows 64-bit support: The installers now work in Windows 64-bit.
- Linux support: Simulator and BlackBerry OS SDK for Adobe AIR now supported on Linux.
- Flash Builder 4.5 (Burrito / Flex Mobile ‘Hero') Support: The plug-in installers will work with either Flash Builder 4.0 or the pre-release version of Flash Builder Burrito from Adobe's website.
Developers can jump over to the RIM DevBlog for additional details and to blackberry.com/developers/tabletos to download the SDK and user guides. Let's get on it devs... we want to see a crack load of apps at launch!
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