RIM supports open source libraries for the BlackBerry PlayBook platform.

Last week, at the BlackBerry DevCon Americas 2011 conference, Research In Motion (RIM) announced version 1.0 of the Native SDK (NDK) for the BlackBerry PlayBook operating system .

The Native SDK was released to provide greater productivity in the development of native applications for the BlackBerry PlayBook platform. In addition to the compiler and linker, the NDK included the following tools: QNX Momentics IDE ( Eclipse- based development environment ), command line tools, as well as examples, documentation, and libraries. For the convenience of working with NDK, a specialized website was opened, where you can find documentation and useful links, including open source components.

NDK comes with a small set of examples available under open licenses. But on the site you can find links to a large number of examples, ready for use and modification.
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In addition, popular open source libraries have been ported. Libraries are already available for use and include Bullet Physics and Box2DX physics engines, Lua scripting language, OpenAL and SDL multimedia libraries, basic development tools for games, such as Cocos2DX, and Boost and Qt general-purpose libraries. The library collection will be updated.



Ported libraries are hosted on GitHub . For each library there is a separate page that contains additional information about the use of the BlackBerry Tablet OS. One of the goals of the project is to transfer the developments to a higher community so that the ported library can work out of the box on the BlackBerry PlayBook.

Post to BlackBerry Developer's Blog
Information on the SVD AF forum
BlackBerry section on GitHub