The Cost of Building BlackBerry Apps

Re:The Cost of Building BlackBerry Apps by g0atbutt on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @04:28PM (#1959705)

Money quote:

"BlackBerry code must be compiled at the Java 1.3 level. This means that developers cannot utilize any of the improvements made to Java since 2002"

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Re:The Cost of Building BlackBerry Apps by potatolicious on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @05:06PM (#1959879)

> "Common utilities such as java.util.ArrayList and java.util.HashMap are also not available."

I've never written anything native for BB, but have done some webapp development (holy usability nightmare Batman! Their browser is horrific in a level that even IE isn't)... but this revelation is scary.

Being forced to write Java 1.3 is like digging a trench with a rusty old spade.

Being forced to write an app without java.util.ArrayList and java.util.HashMap is like digging that trench with your teeth.

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Re:The Cost of Building BlackBerry Apps by icefox on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @05:24PM (#1959967)

Note that starting with the torch bb's have a webkit browser.

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Re:The Cost of Building BlackBerry Apps by potatolicious on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @05:45PM (#1960065)

Yeah, that was an "about damned time" thing. What's the word on the non-touchscreen BB's though? Are the new ones sporting a WebKit browser?

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Re:The Cost of Building BlackBerry Apps by icegreentea on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @11:12PM (#1960985)

Anything that runs OS6 has a webkit browser. I believe thats everything starting from the 9700, but official 9700 OS6 builds are probably a looong time from coming.

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