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GamePlay 1.1 – New Features and Samples
GamePlay 1.1 is now available at GitHub. This release includes a significant number of new features, including physics support using Bullet, OggVorbis audio support, and XCode 4 support, in addition to PlayBook and Windows 7 support – a complete list of … Continue reading
Next release of cocos2d-x to include PlayBook support
Cocos2d-x was one of the Open Source components ported to the PlayBook and announced as part of DevCon America. The intention was always to upstream the changes, and Dale just mentioned that this has indeed been the case. This integration is … Continue reading
Where is that Log? DevUser and Account 1000 on PlayBook
PlayBook applications run in sandboxes, each one with holding files, data base, other data… and also the exit code and the log file for the latest execution of the application, all nicely protected using QNX. Our IDE (formally QNX® Momentics IDE … Continue reading
Hello NDK beta 2 – Step by Step
The second beta of the Native SDK is now available at native/beta microsite – the corresponding runtime is 2.0.0.6149 – and this post shows how to compile, package, and install the first Hello Graphics Sample using just the command-line. Download NDK … Continue reading
News Summary – Dec 12th, 2011
Highlights from recent activity in Open Source projects: Samples-for-Java – New repository Collection of samples and libraries for BBOS. See announcement. JDE-Samples – New repository Samples from JDE and SDKs. See announcement. CouchDB – Updated Port almost complete; see branch changes. GetOpt – New repository Makefile changes … Continue reading
NFC Support in WebWorks
Support for Near Field Communications (NFC – Wikipedia, NFC Forum) was added this week to the WebWorks-Community-APIs repository. The work comes from Martin Woolley and John Murray, in the DevRel team. Martin and John are also authors for a series of … Continue reading
Contributions to Apache
The Apache Software Foundation uses Contribution Agreements to “clearly define the terms under which intellectual property has been contributed to the ASF”. There are two variants of the CLA, the ICLA for individuals, and the CCLA for corporations. RIM recently … Continue reading
NDK 2.0 Beta Now Available
The first beta of the Native SDK for the BlackBerry ® PlayBook™ is now available. Check out: Official DevBlog Post Micro-Site Release Notes Support Forum Registration Page Note the last link: you have to re-register your PlayBook even if you … Continue reading
Community Project on Python on the PlayBook
QNX’s support of POSIX is proving to be really helpful in porting functionality to the PlayBook (and later BBX). One area in point is Python (wikipedia, home site) . PlayBook 2.0 already includes the Python 3.2 runtime but Peter Hansen has started an … Continue reading
DosBox on PlayBook – The Engadget Appearance
Our port of DosBox (wikipedia, web site) made it to Engadget last week. The journey from our GitHub repo is interesting: At CrackBerry, jamesjmunro started a CrackBerry thread on October 24th, pointing out the new repo. The next day several other members … Continue reading
Open BlackBerry News 