14 DAY TRIAL // Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion has just made available for download a new version of the BlackBerry WebWorks SDK for smartphones.
The new release, version 2.1.1, comes as the Echo release, and packs a series of features and enhancements aimed at helping developers add more capabilities to their BlackBerry WebWorks applications.
The new SDK flavor was also meant to bring the development of applications for the BlackBerry smartphones closer to the building of software for the BlackBerry PlayBook.
One of the new features in the latest release of BlackBerry WebWorks SDK for Smartphones would be the inclusion of microphone APIs into the mix, through which a WAV file can be saved on the handset or on a microSD memory card.
The microphone API was already made available for developers interested in coming up with applications for the PlayBook.
The new BlackBerry WebWorks SDK 2.1.1 includes the following novelties: BlackBerry 7 OS simulator – a BlackBerry Bold 9930 simulator running BlackBerry 7 OS device software is now included in the WebWorks SDK download.
Web Inspector – As promised in a previous blog post, developers can now use WebKit Web inspector to debug, test and profile Web browser or BlackBerry WebWorks application content running on a live device or simulator.
Microphone API – The same API that was recently made available for the BlackBerry WebWorks SDK for Tablet OS can now be used to record WAV audio files in BlackBerry WebWorks applications running on BlackBerry smartphones.
Auto injection of Gears-to-HTML5 shim – BlackBerry WebWorks developers that wish to use HTML5 features on BlackBerry 5.0 smartphones no longer need to manually add the Gears-to-HTML JavaScript toolkit to their projects. The BlackBerry WebWorks SDK automatically does this for you.
Those developers interested in learning more on the latest release of the BlackBerry WebWorks SDK should head over to RIM's website here.
The BlackBerry WebWorks SDK 2.1.1 for Smartphones can be download from Softpedia as well, via this link.