Elsewhere – OpenFrameworks

Innovation Happens Elsewhere – OpenFrameworks for QNX:

@LaurenceMuller has been working on a port of OpenFrameworks for PlayBook to port NodeBeat. The port is now solid and NodeBeat is available at AppWorld – and Laurence says he already has it running on BB10.

The port is a good example of the collaboration across open source communities; check out:

• Thread at BlackBerry Support Forum
• Thread at OpenFrameworks Forum
• Thread at Poco Project Forum

The latest summary of the port is at MultiGesture/ofxQNX.  The code itself is at GitHub in the developPlayBook branch of the falcon4ever/OpenFramework repo, and it includes examples.  Laurence indicated that he hopes to upstream the changes at some point.

Enjoy!

GamePlay 1.2 Now Available

GamePlay 1.2 is now available. This release brings many improvements to our Open Source, Cross-Platform, 3D native C++ game framework/engine, including support for:

• BlackBerry Tablet OS 2.0; and BlackBerry 10 ready!
• Apple iOS 5.1 for iPhone 4 and iPad
• Android 2.3+
• Windows 7
• Mac OS X

The development site is at GitHub. Bookmark GamePlay3D.org for a future user-focused site.

Added: More details at DevBlog.

More WebWorks Repositories

We are getting ready for BB 10 Jam in Orlando.

The WebWorks team recently promoted two of their repositories from BlackBerry-WebWorks to the top-level BlackBerry organization.

The BB10-WebWorks-Packager bundles the content of a WebWorks Application with the BB10-WebWorks-Framework to create a BAR that will run on the BB10 Device (or simulator).

See you in Orlando!

Wikipedia App now in BlackBerry App World

It took longer than expected because of conferences, vacation and other distractions, but the HTML5/PhoneGap-based we mentioned earlier is now available for the PlayBook. This is the official client to Wikipedia from the Wikimedia foundation.

Go visit AppWorld and download it.

Open Source rules!

JsonCpp Ported

New repository available in our GitHub organization: a port of JsonCpp, the C++ JSON parser – website, documentation.  The repo is at JsonCpp, courtesy of John Hodgson.

That makes 48 public repositories at GitHub.  And counting…

Contributing to Webkit.org

Since October last year, when George Staikos sent mail to webkit-dev, the RIM Browser team has been in the process of upstreaming the BlackBerry port specific changes to the WebKit community.

The initial phase consisted of upstreaming code changes that are specific to our port.  We are now in the phase where we are upstreaming changes that touch other ports too.  Our goal is to take upstream builds from webkit.org and build them locally.  Then we will provide a buildbot to the WebKit community, so whenever someone submits a patch upstream it will be built on our build machine and it will detect if the patch breaks our build or tests.

We have been making very good progress.  You can check the list of changes via our changeLog, or via the Surfin’ Safari blog – recent mentions of our contributions there include Remote Debugging, Page Visibility and Web Timing APIs, and more.

We will keep you posted of our further participation in the community.

Initial port of OpenCV

Cliff has pushed out a first cut at a port of OpenCV, the Open Computer Vision Library.  Our intention is to complete the port but we are pushing it out now to help other people interested in the library.  If you want to help, go fork from here so we can more easily merge the changes back.

Our port is available as OpenCV in our GitHub organization.

For more information on OpenCV see the website – or the Wikipedia page.