More Details About BlackBerry Social Platform

RIM announced at the DevCon that is working on a new social platform APIs including BlackBerry  BlackBerry Messenger. We wanted to see this many years ago and now RIM finally doing it. The idea is that you can play in connection BBM.RIM has updated the page of BlackBerry Messenger APIs to some interesting details that speak about things that can make developers.

Advantages of a mobile community-centered

Always on, always instantaneous: BBM will revolutionize the applications, and whether of music or games

Anytime, Anywhere: BBM allows the instant exchange of information on the location

At any time the camera: you can have real time streaming video of their applications

BBM platform offers a number of benefits for developers:

Increased participation and rigidity in the application: adding a social element addictive to the application, allowing users to connect with new and old friends

Increased discovery: more than 28 million users around the world, the word about your application can travel quickly in the community BBM

Increased monetization: the development of functional applications in the BBM increase participation, discovery and viral, all factors are keys to increasing revenues and profits

BBM Platform APIs

Developers can use a variety of APIs to build their applications on the access to reading lists BBM contacts, profiles of users and groups, while they allow users of your application, chat and share files such as images , voice notes, videos and music.

BBM contact list, user profiles and invitations

Invite a BBM contact to download your application or start a social interaction within an application

Determine the contact has downloaded your application BBM

Access the user profile as an avatar, status and location

Application in the user profile

Add a box on an application adaptable to BBM in the user profile to publicize the achievements and provide updates

Groups

Create groups of application-specific BBM

Content / chat application BBM

Start a chat with contacts from an application BBM

Share content with the contacts of its applications BBM

Content / chat from one application to another

Create sub-communities within an application, even if users are not present in the BBM contacts

Enable the social interactions within their sub-community

Streaming data between applications

Stream between users in real time such as communication, games and location tracking