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BBX
The big announcement of the conference was BBX — RIM's merging of BlackBerry OS with QNX.
Developers will be able to target the platform using C/C++ or via HTML5 packages.
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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.
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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.
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WebGL
This application takes advantage of WebGL and ran quite nicely.
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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.
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Cascades for business
This Cascades application analyses a user's communication sources.
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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.
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AIR
This game was created using Abode AIR.
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Android runtime
This pool application was created for Android and uses BBX's Android runtime.
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BBX frameworks
An overview of the frameworks and APIs available for BBX.
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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.
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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.
BBX
The big announcement of the conference was BBX — RIM's merging of BlackBerry OS with QNX.
Developers will be able to target the platform using C/C++ or via HTML5 packages.
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