BlackBerry opens doors to developers
Research In Motion (RIM) has opened the first of its global BlackBerry Tech Centres at its EMEA headquarters in Slough.
The new centre will be open weekdays
from 9am - 5pm, offering a dedicated workspace for developers looking to create
applications for BlackBerry 10. The BlackBerry developer evangelist team will
be on hand on a daily basis to provide expertise and guidance to attending
developers. Each day will have a specific focus so that developers can attend
on a day that guarantees the support that is most relevant to them. On Mondays,
the team will focus on helping developers with Native/Cascades/Qt, while
Wednesdays will provide guidance on developing with BlackBerry WebWorks/HTML 5.
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, meanwhile, will be centred around helping
Android, iOS and Windows developers respectively bring their apps to the new
BlackBerry 10 platform, using a range of tried and tested porting strategies.
In addition to the regular stream of activity, the
global BlackBerry Tech Centres will also provide a space for a wider range of
developer engagement activities, while serving as an open, collaborative forum
for developers to share their experiences with, and learnings from, developing
for BlackBerry 10.
Alec Saunders, VP Developer Relations at RIM said,
“The opening of this first BlackBerry Tech Centre underscores our ongoing
commitment to actively engage with and support the efforts of our developer
community. This new centre in our EMEA headquarters designates space where
developers can draw on the resources and skill set of our experienced developer
evangelist team to help them create compelling apps for the new BlackBerry 10
platform. As of October 10, developers can now submit their BlackBerry 10 apps
to the BlackBerry App World™ storefront and I’m looking forward to seeing the
apps that will come from the UK developer community over the weeks and months
ahead.”
The opening further exemplifies the strong developer
momentum behind BlackBerry 10. Since May this year, more than 5,000 BlackBerry
10 Dev Alpha test units have been seeded with developers, enabling them to
build and test applications for BlackBerry 10.
To
register to attend the BlackBerry Tech Centre, click here: https://developer.blackberry.
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