BlackBerry DevCon

Tomb Raider

The vast majority of the keynote's demonstrations were of games — they showed off the hardware acceleration that the PlayBook is capable of.

HTML5

RIM expects the vast majority of applications developed for its BBX platform to be built with HTML5.  This provides the added bonus of being able to target existing BlackBerry handsets.

The application shown above is an example of such an application.

WebGL

This application takes advantage of WebGL and ran quite nicely.

Cascades

Cascades is a UI framework coupled with RIM's new Native SDK, which uses C++ to create interfaces, such as this photo-viewing application that has the photos fall onto the screen as the user scrolls through.

Cascades for business

This Cascades application analyses a user's communication sources.

Citrix Receiver

Citrix showed its Citrix Receiver, which allows PlayBook users to use a virtual Windows Desktop and run virtual applications. After all the games were shown during the keynote it was nice to have a useful application aimed squarely at BlackBerry's traditional users.

AIR

This game was created using Abode AIR.

Android runtime

This pool application was created for Android and uses BBX's Android runtime.

BBX frameworks

An overview of the frameworks and APIs available for BBX.

HDMI output

Using the PlayBook's HDMI output, attendees were able to play games on televisions and use the PlayBook as a steering wheel. While fine in theory, it was actually easier to look at the PlayBook in practice.

Beetroot, pineapple and egg

While it may have been subliminal to most attendees, they were exposed to the delight of having beetroot, egg and pineapple on a burger.