BlackBerry PlayBook
I’m still waiting for my PlayBook. And while I am more than happy to be getting something for relatively nothing (a couple of hours of development time) I don’t understand RIM’s logic on delivery to developers. Modern smartphones and tablets live or die based on the applications available to end users. That being said, if you were RIM wouldn’t you want to ship development PlayBook devices to developers as early as possible? The latest I have heard from theBlackBerry forums is that they should ship this week, one full week after the consumer launch! ...
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Just a quick post about my recent experience developing an app for the upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook. I have definitely been spoiled developing mobile applications for other platforms. Once you spend some time in IDE’s such as MS Visual Studio and Apple XCode you realize the BlackBerry platform is not very developer friendly. On other platforms, when you want to build/debug/test your code you simply “Build (or Run) & Deploy” to the simulator and start testing. Not so with the PlayBook. Here is a snippet of the command line scripts I had to figure out to...
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It is an exciting time to be a “smart device” developer. There is so much opportunity in the mobile world to create applications that open up new and exciting possibilities for large corporations, mid/small business and consumers. We are currently developing a number of projects in the mobile space (unfortunately details are under wraps due to contractual/NDA restrictions). What we have started to work with (and love) is the ability to mix native and web application development together on the current crop of smart devices. While the tools that enable this are still in their...
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It has been 4 months since releasing my first iPhone app through the Apple app store and the number of downloads and usage continue to grow. For anyone interested, a local referral business (local to the Greater Toronto Area) contracted my company (Aspire Technology) to build them a geolocation based application to front their web based directory. After months of development we released version 1.0 to the Apple app store and a month later to the Android Marketplace. We are currently developing version 2.0 which will bring some interesting upgrades and enhancements. Stay...
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