BlackBerry & Appdome Partner To Enable Codeless Integration For Mobile Application Developers and Users

BlackBerry today announced the availability of AppDome's AppFusion service for the Good Dynamics Secure Mobility Platform. With AppDome, applications can take advantage of Good Dynamics´ specific secure workflow for enterprise apps without the need for developers to access the source code.

“In partnering with AppDome, we are expanding flexibility and enabling new features by making it easier for customers to easily integrate, use, protect and manage their enterprise apps on Good Dynamics,” - Billy Ho, Executive Vice President, Enterprise Product and Value Added Solutions ...

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BlackBerry Launches Developer "Hero" Program

Wait, what?

After reading the title, I'm sure many had similar reactions to a recent launch of a highlight program for developers releasing new (not upated) application to the BlackBerry 10 platform. Dubbed Hero the program is aimed at getting devs to release new applications to their platform, offering up 6 months of heavy features on BlackBerry World, BlackBerry.com - and potentially their dev blog.

Here's the low-down:

The Developer Hero Program will help you get your app noticed and downloaded. Selected apps ...

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BlackBerry Priv Emulator Launched

Priv by BlackBerry Android Emulator

I don’t recall a mainstream Android phone currently in production sporting a physical hardware keyboard. The physical keyboard is such an integral part of the Priv’s experience, it would be a shame to let Devs ignore this piece. The Priv, launched recently by BlackBerry, now has its own emulator on the Android™ Virtual Device (AVD) Manager in the Android Studio SDK by way of adding a Priv ‘skin’. This will be very helpful for Devs wishing to add hardware support ...

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Meet The Dev: Shashwat Pradhan

Every Thursday on a bi-weekly basis, we'll sit down with some of the best BlackBerry developers for some Q&A to give you the inside scoop on your favourite apps and platform. This week, we chatted with Sashwat Pradhan of Emberify - the team behind Follow Mail and Inbox Zero 

Name: Sashwat Pradhan

Developer Name: Emberify

Country: India

Website: Emberify

Social Pages: @Emberify

 

How many people are on your Development Team?

 We have six people in our team at Emberify.

 

How long ...

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Meet The Dev: Sasha Kanthan

Every Thursday on a bi-weekly basis, we'll sit down with some of the best BlackBerry developers for some Q&A to give you the inside scoop on your favourite apps and platform. This week, we chatted with Sasha Kanthan of Firechest Apps - though you may know him better as the creator of Usage Pro and Backup Pro.

 

Name: Sasha Kanthan

Developer Name: Firechest Apps

Country: Australia

Website: Firechest

Social Pages: @FireChestDotCom

 

How many people are on your Development Team?

Three programmers dedicated to ...

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Which Perimeter Am I In?

For developers who are targeting their applications for both the work and the personal perimeter of the device, this might be a million dollar question. Sometimes it becomes necessary to dynamically determine which perimeter the user has deployed an app in.

Needless to say, BlackBerry 10 APIs are designed to be perimeter agnostic. Hence, most app developers need not worry about it. But there are cases when apps need to make decisions based on this. E.g. an app might want to encrypt data only ...

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ICYMI: 3.0 Gold plug-in for Visual Studio

At the beginning of the month, BlackBerry announced the Gold 3.0 of their VS Plugin. In case you missed it, check out the new 3.0 Gold version of the plug-in:

The BlackBerry Native Plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio (version 3.0 Gold) includes a new UI for configuring your environment, project templates for developing BlackBerry apps, and lots of other new features. In this article, we take a look at what's new in this release.

Special thanks to open-source contributor Pawel Hofman ...

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Workshop: Creating with QNX and Qt

When BlackBerry started building the new generation of BlackBerry back in 2012, few knew what QNX was in relation to BlackBerry. Today, many know what it does, and even more folks now know what it is. However, very little is known about how it works on a public level. When BlackBerry acquired QNX back in April 2010, they closed out the system entirely with no access to the source code. Same is the case with the Qt application framework. Many BlackBerry fans did not know ...

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