Research in Motion yesterday (20th June 2013) formed the first Girl BlackBerry developer group in Nairobi, this is the first in the world, and it will be lead by Kweli Mukeli, as the developer Girl Group Manager.
They made this announcement prior to the BlackBerry10 World Jam Tour held in the Nairobi Incubation Lab (nailab), Kenya. This is the 2nd year they are having the tour in Kenya after holding it at Ole Sereni Hotel in 2012, though have previously had a series of hackathons too.
The tour is dedicated to providing the Enterprise Developer community with insights on the upcoming BlackBerry 10 platform, its strengths, the vision and how developers can build applications That deliver real business value.
BlackBerry10 Jam Kenya; close look up on the user interface
“Native applications are faster since they are compiled, web applications on the other hand are slower since they have to be Interpreted on different platforms.” Luca says Sale, Developer Evangelist for BlackBerry.
BlackBerry 5, 6 and 7 browsers were slow, at the moment the see improvements on this ecosystem That include advanced development on HTML5 and user interface. HTML 5 Allows for cross platform compatibility, this mark up language has enabled developers to code applications That run on various platforms, be it on HP, Nexus 4, Nokia among others. “We do not believe in locking up developers onto one platform,” says Sale. BlackBerry10 (BB10) scored 485 out of 500, against Chrome’s 463 and IOS 7′s 404 on an HTML 5 (html5test.com) test used to benchmark every single browser, in fact says Blackberry10 Sale runs a webkit browser engine, Which only the Chrome browser comes close to. BB10 interface operates at 60 frames – per – second, Which is a sweet spot for fluid user interface operation.
The test shows how different browser interprets HTML objects.
From the Nairobi community, will award Blackberry and Blackberry Z10 or Q10 device to developers with the best three applications selected out of the best fifteen submitted to the “Built for Blackberry App store.” The winning application from the African tour will be awarded USD 5,000 in October.
“Kenya developers are keen on exploring more languages ??and they want to understand new stuff on the BB10 platform,” notes Sale.
Peter Nalika
Peter generates technical content for CIO East Africa and the International Data Group News Service, he also contributes to PC World and Computer World. Peter is classically trained in computing and information management, and he is currently pursing an MBA in Management Information Systems at the University of Nairobi, @ peternalika
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