14 DAY TRIAL // Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion has released previously this week a software development kit aimed at offering developers the possibility to come up with Adobe AIR-based applications for the company's BlackBerry Playbook tablet PC, namely the BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK for Adobe AIR.
The tablet was showcased at the Adobe MAX conference, where RIM held some sessions on the development of applications for it using the BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK for Adobe AIR, and the first software solutions based on this SDK started to emerge.
One of these applications is the eUnity app from Client Outlook, which enables medical professionals to share and collaborate around medical images, as a recent post on BlackBerry Developer's Bolg reads.
It appears that the application was built relatively fast, as the development team needed only two hours to make the eUnity app run on the PlayBook.
According to these guys, they managed to work so fast courtesy of the BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK for Adobe AIR, which is very easy to use.
Another application developed for the tablet PC using the said SDK was a browser, which was built even faster than the aforementioned software, and which can be seen in the video embedded at the bottom of this article.
“Once I heard the PlayBook announcement, I was excited to get coding. The recent announcement of the AIR SDK being made available was a motivator and I started to write something that could be a challenge so I can gain knowledge of the APIs as fast as possible,” the developer stated.
I was amazed to find that everything I needed was available via the API and made it simple to develop a browser for the PlayBook within a half an hour! I cannot wait to get started on my submission for App World now that I know how straight-forward it is to program for the PlayBook.”
Those interested in coming up with similar solutions for RIM's PlayBook should hurry up and download the SDK to get started.
According to RIM, developers who get their applications submitted and accepted in the BlackBerry App World before the tablet's launch would receive BlackBerry PlayBooks for free.
The BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK for Adobe AIR is available for download from Softpedia too, via this link for Windows, and here for Mac.