14 DAY TRIAL // Research In Motion and Adobe Systems Incorporated announced at the 2009 BlackBerry Developer Conference that they expanded their collaboration and that developers would be able to enjoy the use of the Adobe Flash Platform technology and Adobe Creative Suite tools when building content for BlackBerry smartphones.
“There is tremendous opportunity for RIM and Adobe to align our platforms to help developers create BlackBerry applications that are highly engaging and deeply integrated in order to deliver the best user experience in the market,” said Jim Balsillie, Co-CEO, Research In Motion. “We are working closely with Adobe to enable our developer communities to build rich content services and BlackBerry Widgets that leverage the latest runtime environments, APIs and network services through Adobe’s industry leading design and development tools.”
The two companies also announced that the Adobe Creative Suite 5 and future releases would offer developers the possibility to use tools like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe After Effects for the development of image and video content for the BlackBerry. The content will be easily imported into the BlackBerry Java Plug-in for Eclipse and BlackBerry Web Plug-in for Eclipse so as to be employed in user interfaces, while backgrounds, icons and images can be employed in the new BlackBerry Theme Studio to deliver themes for the smartphones.
“RIM is at the forefront of driving smartphone innovation, and it’s only natural that further integrating our respective platforms will set new standards for engaging content and applications,” said Shantanu Narayen, president and CEO of Adobe. “The expanded partnership between both companies will open up great new opportunities by making it even easier for content designers and mobile application developers to create rich and compelling content for the BlackBerry platform.”
The duo stated that tools like Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Fireworks and Adobe Device Central software could also be used for the development of BlackBerryWidgets and web content for the handsets. RIM and Adobe also noted that their collaboration is aimed at accelerating the development of application and content for the BlackBerry platform through the use of Adobe tools. The companies added that the new announcement builds upon the previous one, that they are working on delivering the Adobe Flash Player browser runtime to BlackBerry smartphones.