One of the charms of smart watches is that instead of being limited to the functions that it ships with, developers can add new functionality at any time. The Pebble, the first popular smart watch, released its first “proof-of-concept” SDK last week, allowing these developers to get cracking on their own custom watch faces and…
It’s been around a week now since we were shown the new BlackBerry 10 operating system, and one of the biggest things pushed at the event was the amount of quality applications that will be available for the first time on a BlackBerry device. We now have news of the BlackBerry Jam Developer event in…
Jolla has now introduced Sailfish, a Meego based operating system that is targeted towards smartphones, tablets and other devices, and Jolla has also announced that ST-Ericsson will support the Sailfish operating system on their NovaThor platforms, which can adapt to different mobile operating systems. Jolla kept the new Sailfish OS under wraps until now, and…
It has been well publicized in the last few months that BlackBerry maker RIM are pinning their future hopes on the success of its next operating system, as the company has seen its smartphone market share dwindle away from the dizzy heights it once enjoyed. The company is busy working with developers, and now we…
If you are an Android developer you might like to know that Google has now release the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean SDK, and included revised version of the SDK Tools (20.11) along with NDK revision 8b, enabling devs to publish code up to API level 16 using Android Jelly Bean APIs. According to an article…
For those Android developers that would like to make their content accessible for all PlayStation certified devcies, after being behind closed beta doors since last November, Sony has now made available their PlayStation Suite open beta SDK for Android developers. According to the guys over at Engadget, the free PlayStation Suite open beta SDK is…
For all you Android modders and developers out there that are using the Android SDK you just might like to hear that the Android dev team have now updated their SDK tools to v17 that delivers a bundle of extra goodness for devs to play with when building new Android builds or apps. According to…
Those familiar with mobile software store GetJar, will be pleased to learn that the company have announced a new virtual payment system for Android, which currently sees a fairly complicated system compared to that of say Apple’s.
PlayStation Suite games that are exclusive may not be that soon, those that are exclusive to Sony devices may be thrown out of the window soon because they will become available for Android OS devices. Kazuo Hirai who is one of the bosses of Sony has confirmed that they are working on making available PlayStation…
Peter Oppenheimer, CFO of Apple has announced that Apple has signed 200,000 developers for the iPhone SDK, (Software Development Kit) so far. Apple announced that in mid-March the iPhone SDK was downloaded 100,000 times and Apple are signing more developers each week. Oppenheimer believes there has been a tremendous response to the SDK and says…
Time for a new fresh beta built of the official Apple iPhone SDK firmware, and apparently this time round the 2.0 firmware appears to gain support for OpenGL ES in the SDK’s emulator. This should enable easy access to the iPhone’s 3D acceleration so those fascinating and captivating games we all plan on playing for…
