While the very fact remains that RIM would be using QNX for its forthcoming smartphones and tablets is now pretty sanctioned, details regarding the extensive trip of the platform are scarce. However, at the BlackBerry DevCon Americas conference, the company publicized a number of things concerning its strategies, while not actually showing off the new OS, or declaring a uncertain release date.
The new OS is going to be branded as BBX, be a mix of QNX and BlackBerry OS interfaces, feature support for BlackBerry cloud services, and be intended for both tablets and smartphones. BBX will support applications developed using the tools handy for the BlackBerry PlayBook, together with its native SDK beta, Adobe AIR/Flash, WebWorks/HTML5, and also the BlackBerry Runtime for Android Apps.
Mike Lazaridis, co-CEO of RIM, whispered concerning new platform, and consequently the fate of developers:
“At DevCon today, we’re providing developers the tools they want to construct richer applications, and we’re providing direction on a way to best develop their smartphone and tablet apps as the BlackBerry and QNX platforms assemble into our next generation BBX platform.”
The company has moreover released a 1.0 gold release of the native SDK for the BlackBerry PlayBook, which will seemingly enable developers ability to construct “high-performance, multi-threaded, native C/C++ applications and sanctions developers to make advanced 2D and 3D games and other apps with access to OpenGL ES 2.0 and Open AL.” as with the beta native SDK, any applications produced with the new native SDK are going to be compatible with BBX. Also new, is the BlackBerry WebWorks SDK 2.2 for smartphones and tablets, which will aid developers produce HTML5 apps with native integration, moreover as Open source libraries.
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