BlackBerry DevCon Europe 2012 Kicks Off Next Week

Next week RIM will hold a new developers conference as part of its DevCon series, namely BlackBerry DevCon Europe 2012. The event is planned to take off on February 7 in Amsterdam and will run for two days. 

The company saw great interest in the event, and announced that BlackBerry DevCon Europe had sold out. 

At the event, developers will be able to learn some more info on what the building of applications for the BlackBerry operating system is all about. 

There will be hundreds of people present at the event, and they will have the chance to collaborate with platform experts from Europe and from other parts of the world. 

There will be various breakout and hands-on lab sessions aimed at focusing on various aspects of the BlackBerry development platform. 

Content categories that will get a spotlight at the event include: 

• Java Development for BlackBerry 7 OS
• WebKit and the BlackBerry WebWorks Platform Development
• BlackBerry PlayBook OS Development, including BlackBerry Native SDK for Tablet OS, Adobe AIR and Adobe Flash, and Android Player
• BlackBerry Application Platform Services and the BBM Social Platform
• Getting ready for the BlackBerry 10 Platform
• Tips and tools to help debug and optimize your apps
• User interface and user experience tools and best practices
• Developing quality enterprise applications
• Marketing and distributing your applications

Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion also notes that attendees at BlackBerry DevCon Europe get the opportunity to take advantage of App Express, for fast tracking their apps through porting existing Android software to the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. 

Moreover, they will also have the possibility to transform existing web applications into full-fledged software for either the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet or the BlackBerry smartphones (OS 5.0 and up), or for both of them. 

Moreover, there will be BlackBerry platform experts present at the event, so that developers could pose questions on various issues they might have met. 

Those who will not attend the conference will be able to stay up to date with it, via the special website that RIM dedicated to the BlackBerry DevCon event in Europe.

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