Embattled RIM shows updated developer tools
September 27, 2012 —
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Patel said that, despite being asked to attend and speak, “I was coming anyway. I came because I've been a developer for a long time, and I recently started getting back into mobile development after getting in with the old Nokia S60 and using the original BlackBerry Java. I even did some Windows CE development back in the day.”
Patel said he's also been developing applications on Android, letting him compare BlackBerry 10 with Google's mobile platform. “I can say with confidence that BlackBerry Java was crap for developers. It was buggy, and it was cumbersome to get anything done. It was powerful for what it was—considering where it came from and that it's been there since 2000. It was time for a change.
“That being said, after having developed for Android, Android is making a lot of the same mistakes RIM did by going with Java. Some of the difficulties I've had with my own Android applications are the same issues I had with BlackBerry years ago.”
Miguel Sucre, director of Venezuelan mobile application consulting firm Mobile Media, said that he came to BlackBerry Jam Americas in order to check out RIM's new SDKs firsthand.
“We wanted to see all the new SDKs and all the tools the new BlackBerry 10 device has, and to see all the progress they've made since May,” he said. “We're here to see what the BlackBerry 10 device will offer our engineering team. We build more than 140 applications for the BlackBerry platform in South America and Latin America for companies such as newspapers and television networks.”
While Sucre was upbeat about the potential of the BlackBerry 10 platform, he was skeptical about RIM's ability to execute on its vision. “We developers want something that is ready to go, with not many bugs, and without having to struggle with the development tools,” he said. “I just received a call from my development team, and they could not update their new BlackBerry 10 Alpha devices to the new beta version that was released today... I would like to see BlackBerry improve those things so we don't have problems updating or downloading the tools, so we can just focus on development.”
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