Mark your calendar to attend the BlackBerry® 7 webinar on Wednesday June 29th 2011. You will learn more about how to get your applications ready for the new BlackBerry 7 smartphones (including the BlackBerry® Bold™ 9900 smartphone and BlackBerry® Bold™ 9930 smartphone), what’s new in the BlackBerry 7 release and how to add these features into your application.

Date: Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Time: 2:00 pm ET
Duration: 1 hour
Presenter: Paul Bernhardt, Application Development Consultant, Research In Motion® (RIM®)

The webcast will cover:

• How to quickly port your current BlackBerry® platform application to BlackBerry 7 and key considerations when designing your app for the new BlackBerry 7 smartphones
• BlackBerry 7 API Overview: Includes new hardware enabled features on BlackBerry 7 devices such as Magnetomer, Near Field Communications, Augmented Reality, OpenGL ES 2.0 as well as APIs that enhance the Super Apps experience
• Q&A with RIM application development expert

Don’t miss out on this event! You must be registered in order to attend, so register today!

UPDATE: We have added more convenient times to our BlackBerry 7 webinar schedule for developers who are based out of Europe or Asia. The details and registration links are below, so sign up today! You must be registered to attend these events:

EMEA
Date: Thursday, July 7, 2011
Time: 2:00 pm BST
Duration: 1 hour
Registration: Sign up here for this webcast
Presenter: Paul Bernhardt, Application Development Consultant, Research In Motion (RIM)

AP
Date: Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Time: 12:00 pm HKT
Duration: 1 hour
Registration: Sign up here for this webcast
Presenter: Paul Bernhardt, Application Development Consultant, Research In Motion (RIM)

Sincere thanks to everyone who joined us for the “Developing using the BlackBerry® WebWorks™ SDK” Webcast series. The recordings for each session of the webinar are available to access online. If you haven’t already done so, please schedule some time to set aside and watch them at your own convenience.

During this series, attendees were presented with a variety of topics, code samples and best practices. The goals of each of these sessions were to provide developers with new information they can use to build great applications for the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet, as well as enabling them to share the knowledge they learn within their own development communities. Here’s an overview of what each webcast covered:

Webcast Part 1 – Getting Started: Discover the purpose and capabilities of the BlackBerry WebWorks platform. Learn how to setup your development environment and build a “Hello World” application. Understand how to configure and deploy applications to a BlackBerry® Tablet OS virtual machine.

Webcast Part 2 – My First App: Learn how to add visual enhancements and application functionality to your BlackBerry Tablet OS applications using BlackBerry WebWorks. Discover how easy it can be to leverage existing assets in constructing your application. Become more confident and efficient at using the development tools.

Webcast Part 3 – BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet Integration: Understand what platform features and supported APIs exist that can be used to add functionality to your BlackBerry PlayBook tablet applications. Discover how to use the BlackBerry WebWorks JavaScript® APIs to integrate your application content with the underlying BlackBerry Tablet OS.

Webcast Part 4 – User Interface Guidelines and Best Practices: Learn how to design great BlackBerry PlayBook tablet applications that optimize the experience for your end users. Incorporate best practices and habits in your development processes to help reduce overall development and troubleshooting time of your BlackBerry WebWorks applications.

Read more at the Inside BlackBerry Developer’s Blog »