By Eric Akasa
Research in Motion (RIM), the maker of BlackBerry smartphones and BlackBerry PlayBook tablets has provided more than 50 Kenyan mobile developers with an opportunity to learn more about the unique capabilities of BlackBerry10
The
forum dubbed BlackBerry 10 Mini Jam provided insights into the BlackBerry 10
experience, architecture and tools which enabled Kenyan developers to be among
the growing list of partners around the world creating apps for the new platform.
“The
BlackBerry platform already provides significant opportunities for the
developer community in Kenya. There is high demand for more tools and knowledge
to create local services and apps, but also, a strong desire to reach a global
audience of millions of BlackBerry customers. “Says Waldi Wepener, Regional Director
for East, West and Central Africa at RIM
He
also added that it was a fantastic experience to see the level of excitement
among Kenyan mobile developers for the BlackBerry10 platform and re-affirmed the company’s commitment
towards providing an enabling environment for local developers to use their best
skills to quickly create apps with great user experience.
To
date, RIM has brought BlackBerry 10 developer events to cities across North
America, Europe, the Asia Pacific and now in Africa, bringing developers around
the world the latest information about BlackBerry 10 and the opportunities the
new platform offers for creating powerful apps.
RIM
has transformed the developer experience with BlackBerry 10, creating an open
platform to enable developers to leverage their range of existing skills, while
at the same time providing them with powerful new tools to simplify the
development process.
“The one-on-one expert guidance on creating
BlackBerry 10 apps from the RIM team will enable local developers to build
better mobile apps in various languages, and more importantly, help build an
ecosystem to support Kenyan consumers when BlackBerry 10.” Remarks George
Murage, Business Developer and Blogger for Juuchini
Currently
in beta, the BlackBerry 10 developer toolkit includes the BlackBerry10 Native
SDK with Cascades, which allows developers to create graphically rich, high
performance native applications in C/C++. The Native SDK for BlackBerry 10 has
a rich set of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) that give developers
access to core device features and a range of BlackBerry application services,
such as Push and Payment services.
The
toolkits are available in beta as free downloads from http://developer.blackberry.com
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