Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Use the New BlackBerry 7 APIs in Your App & RIM May Promote it for You

App World of Possibilities

RIM sent an email to developers this week letting them know about a cool opportunity they are offering. The new BlackBerry 7 OS offers quite a few new APIs for devs. RIM is trying to get developers to jump on the OS 7 bandwagon early by offering up the possibility that your “app could be featured in a variety of BlackBerry marketing activities” if you submit your app using the new BlackBerry 7 API’s by July 31st. Here are the possible opportunities:

The apps must be submitted to App World by July 31st to be considered and it seems like RIM is specifically targeting the NFC, Augmented Reality, and OpenGL APIs. RIM is holding their “What you need to know to develop for BlackBerry 7 webinar” today so dial in to that if you want to learn more.

For reference, here is a list of some of the new APIs available in BlackBerry 7 from our previous coverage:

And a few others…

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