RIM clears major hurdle in going gold with BB10 SDK toolkit

WATERLOO - Following months of delay, Research In Motion (RIM) has released the "gold" build for its BlackBerry 10 developer toolkit and on time. With the tools now finalized, developers can now get to work on developing apps that will run on the final BB10 hardware. The "gold" build includes all of the final tools, components, and APIs that will enable developers to create “integrated, social and beautiful applications” for BlackBerry 10 says RIM. Native C/C++ and Qt developers can use BlackBerry Cascades to build visually stunning applications that offer deeper integration with core feature elements, such as BlackBerry Hub, than...