TAT Shows Off What They’ve Been Working On

Today, the Inside BlackBerry Blog posted 2 videos of what The Astonishing Tribe (TAT), has been working on since they were acquired by RIM last year.  I mentioned at the end of last year why I was excited about TAT, and now I’m glad to see what they’ve been doing.  The first one (shown above) is an app demo called “Scrapbook” which lets you arrange photos into scrapbook pages and share them with your friends.  You can see in this demo, that the user is at one point using 4 fingers on the screen at once.  Two of them are pinching to resize an image, and the other two are moving around two different images.  The PlayBook was able to handle this very well and everything seemed fluid.

The second video is a demo of how powerful RIM’s WebWorks SDK for PlayBook is.  Built in only a week, “Aura” uses nothing but web technologies like HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, TAT built a cool weather app that is very fluid and uses the accelerometer.  While you may not think that this app is very functional, it is more intended to show just how powerful the WebWorks SDK is.  If somebody showed me both of these apps and asked me which was written in the native SDK and which was done in WebWorks, I couldn’t tell you which one is which.

These apps could both be proof of concept demos and could never actually come out, but it’s cool to see that TAT is already applying their user interface expertise at RIM.  I can’t wait to see what they do with RIM’s current app offerings.

[Inside BlackBerry Blog and BlackBerry Developer's Blog]

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