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Daniel Baxter, Senior Developer and Matthew Hately, VP of Strategy from Macadamian were on hand at BlackBerry 10 Jam to speak of custom frameworks they've been building that work with OpenGL and Cascades. They hit the stage to show off one of their apps making use of their custom controls that pulls in content from various resources to aggregate the information and show it off in a useful UI. In this case, they pulled info from Twitter for the NBA playoffs in an attempt to get a concenus on who would win. The results are pretty impressive and as noted, Macadamian will be posting the source code for developerson the BlackBerry Cascades site.
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A closer look at bbUI.js - RIM's open source UI toolkit designed to help create applications with native-like capabilities
During BlackBerry World 2012 and BlackBerry 10 Jam there was a lot of information released for BlackBerry developers. The highlight of the event was of course the BlackBerry 10 Native SDK with Cascades which, allows developers to create graphically rich, high performance native applications in C/C++ or Qt but in that mix, was the BlackBerry 10 WebWorks SDK which allows developers to...
Five Important Observations from BlackBerry World 2012
With BlackBerry World 2012 officially behind us, it's time to look back at the event that I believe will go down as a historic turning point in RIM's history. There's a lot to take in, so I'll keep the intro short and let's get right to it. Keep reading for what I view are five important observations coming out of the event. 1. This is clearly a new Research In Motion. I have been...
BlackBerry World 2012 Day One Roundup!
If you missed any of our Day 1 BlackBerry World and BlackBerry Jam coverage, we've conveniently rounded up the links below so you can click through to catch up on all the action. There's lots to read and lots of great videos to watch. Be sure to check out the BlackBerry 10 preview videos, which we're clearly excited about...as noted in my CrackBerry Kevin on BlackBerry 10 video above...