Developing rich content and applications for BlackBerry smartphones is now made easier as creative professionals and application developers can now employ Adobe Flash Platform technology and Adobe Creative Suite.
Upcoming versions of Adobe Creative Suite like the Adobe Creative Suite 5 will enable designers to create optimized graphic assets, such as image and video content by employing tools such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe After Effects, for the BlackBerry platform. Later, the graphics assets can be imported to BlackBerry application development tools, like the BlackBerry Java Plug-in for Eclipse and the BlackBerry Web Plug-in for Eclipse for use in applications and user interfaces.
“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. 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,” quoted Jim Balsillie, Co-CEO, Research In Motion.
“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. 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,” mentioned Shantanu Narayen, president and CEO of Adobe.
Further, backgrounds, icons and images created with Adobe Photoshop can be used in the new BlackBerry Theme Studio to build BlackBerry themes. Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Fireworks and Adobe Device Central software can be used to support the creation and testing of BlackBerryWidgets and web content for the BlackBerry Browser.
The collaboration between RIM and Adobe intends to boost the mobile application and content development workflow between BlackBerry application and web content developers. With this initiative, the re-creation of graphic assets and iterations while generating rich application user interfaces, animations, images and video content is also reduced.