BlackBerry have released the BlackBerry 10 WebWorks SDK 2.0 for developers. There are a number of UI and User Experience (UX) improvements over the Beta. The left hand navigation menu is clearer and will focus on the currently active project. In general, small enhancements should lend a cleaner and more intuitive experience to the tool.
Finally, BlackBerry have delivered Linux support in the sdk. The official supported flavor of Linux is Ubuntu 12, both 32 and 64bit versions.
With this release, you are now able to add and remove plugins for your project from the GUI tool. To add a plugin, just input the plugin id in the edit box and hit “Add Plugin.†There is even an easy link to the http://plugins.cordova.io site to discover additional plugins not packaged in the BlackBerry WebWorks SDK.
The beta version of the WebWorks SDK and the ability to produce and deploy release versions of your application relied upon registering and creating your developer signing certificate with the command line tools. With the Gold release, you will be able to do the signing certificate generation from the Certificates tab in the GUI tool as well.
As for the config.xml, you can now add icons and splashscreens, manage permissions, edit the application id and change your access elements. Advanced applications taking advantage of registering to be targets for invocation will still have to manually edit invocation target entries in config.xml.
You can download the WebWorks SDK here.[signoff predefined=”Enjoy this?” icon=”icon-users”][/signoff]
