RIM unveils new tablet dev tools

Thu, 13th Jan 2011

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At its BlackBerry DEVCON Asia event currently taking place in Bali, RIM has launched a series of new developer tools and services for BlackBerry Tablet OS and BlackBerry Smartphones.

‘BlackBerry WebWorks SDK for Tablet OS’ aims to let web and mobile developers use the SDK in combination with their web development tools of choice to create integrated apps for the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet that also support BlackBerry smartphones running the BlackBerry 6 OS.

“RIM continues to invest in a global and diverse developer community and we are offering them a broad range of tools in support of the BlackBerry Application Platform,” said David Yach, CTO for Software at Research In Motion.

“With BlackBerry WebWorks, developers will be able to use standard web technologies to build powerful, integrated applications quickly and easily for both BlackBerry smartphones and the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, and the GitHub open source project around BlackBerry WebWorks means more support for developers, enabling them to fully participate in defining the future of this platform and tooling.”

From today, web developers can download the BlackBerry WebWorks SDK for Tablets OS, build BlackBerry PlayBook applications and qualify for a free BlackBerry PlayBook.

RIM has also launched the BlackBerry Payment Service SDK beta, as well as an update of the BlackBerry Push Service SDK (v 1.0.1) and a new release of the BlackBerry Java Plug-in for Eclipse (version 1.3).

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