News: RIM launches updated BlackBerry Tablet OS simulator

Research In Motion (RIM) has announced that it has launched an updated version of the BlackBerry Tablet OS simulator, which embeds the full BlackBerry Browser.

By employing this updated simulator, web developers will now be able to start testing their web applications as well as Adobe Flash apps.

The Canadian smartphone maker stated that there are a few things web developers should know about the BlackBerry Browser operating on the BlackBerry Tablet OS. Firstly, the User Agent will continue to match the current User Agent pattern that the company utilised within its smartphone devices.

As an example, RIM provided the User Agent for the BlackBerry Torch 9800 smartphone and the User Agent for the upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook tablet.

BlackBerry Torch 9800 Smartphone User Agent - Mozilla/5.0 (BlackBerry; U; BlackBerry 9800; en) AppleWebKit/534.1+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0.0.141 Mobile Safari/534.1+
BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet User Agent - Mozilla/5.0 (PlayBook; U; RIM Tablet OS 1.0.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.8+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/0.0.1 Safari/534.8+

Secondly, the browser expands upon existing support for web standards including HTML5 for BlackBerry by adding support for HTML5 Video and Audio, based on the power and flexibility of the underlying BlackBerry Tablet OS.

This simulator doesn’t support all codecs though and some audio/video testing will require hardware to be fully tested. The browser supports Adobe Flash 10.1, so Flash developers will be able to test the Adobe Flash player in the simulator.

Developers can download the BlackBerry Tablet OS simulator from the company’s website. RIM also stated that developers should check out the BlackBerry WebWorks platform if they wish to bring their web-based applications to BlackBerry App World or to participate in its free BlackBerry PlayBook tablet offer.

RIM launches updated BlackBerry Tablet OS simulator

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