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New WebWorks Community API: Using Analytics Service
Tim has added a new WebWorks Extension to our WebWorks-Community-APIsrepository. The new feature is loaded through <feature id=”webworks.analytics” /> Using the service requires registering with the service, adding some JavaScript setup code and including some instrumentation calls to track key … Continue reading
BlackBerry PlayBook 2.0 is Out!!
Today was the official worldwide launch of the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ OS 2.0 software update. There are many new features; rather than singling out any, I’ll point to the official pages and blogs. There is plenty of information in the form of articles … Continue reading
Belligerent Blocks – Using Scoreloop SDK on the PlayBook
The NDK microsite has many useful samples but the GitHub NDK-Samples repo has additional ones, including BelligerentBlocks, the game that was shown in San Francisco during DevCon America 2011. BelligerentBlocks showcases the Scoreloop™ social gaming platform (wikipedia) and many BlackBerry® PlayBook™ features … Continue reading
Weather WebWorks Sample is in – RSS Reader is out, for now
We have posted a new sample to the WebWorks-Samples repository: Weather. This sample is targeted to the BlackBerry smartphones and uses the Spinner Control extension from WebWorks-Community-APIs. Also, a week ago we removed the RSS Reader sample, but we will push … Continue reading
More Upstreaming: OpenGL ES Programming Guide
Dan Ginsburg has incorporated the samples from the OpenGL® ES 2 Programming Guide that Darryl ported to the PlayBook. See the project and the book websites. This is an example of our policy to upstream ports to the main project, like with Cocos2d-x.
WebKit-PlayBook – WebKit Source Snapshot
There is a new repository at our GitHub organization: the WebKit-PlayBook repo will contain source snapshots of the versions of WebKit (wikipedia, website) used in RIM’s PlayBook releases. Like in the case of its sibling repository: WebKit-Smartphone, each snapshot corresponds to a … Continue reading
cocos2d-1.0.1-x-0.11.0 – with PlayBook Support
A bit later than initially expected, but it happened a week ago (announcement): cocos2d-1.0.1-x-0.11.0.zip is available with PlayBook support. The release includes a Wiki page that shows How to run HelloWorld and Tests on BlackBerry Tablet OS. Our goal is to upstream as … Continue reading
NDK 2.0 Beta 3 Available with Additional Code Samples
As Tim announced at DevBlog, the NDK 2.0 beta 3 is now available. This beta includes new tooling, API, samples, and documentation as well as the Scoreloop™ SDK beta3. Tim’s post has a list of the changes; also see the Release Notes. The … Continue reading
DosBox – From GitHub to Your PlayBook
DosBox is one of the Open Source ports we announced at DevCon America 2011. The port (by Jeremy’s team) reinforces the richness of the PlayBook platform and made it to Engadget. Below are updated instructions on how to build and install … Continue reading
Building and Deploying WebWorks Samples
We now have 5 samples at WebWorks-Samples (TunnelTilt, is a sixth one but it is at WebGL-Samples): Aura – the “weather with physics” demo from MWC 2011 (video) KitchenSink – a demo of many WW features (all but “the kitchen … Continue reading
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