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started developping apps for mobile in 2009. at that time, i aimed for ios development and blackberry. it took me 2 months to get my first app on ios, and i tho
by bsaul 13y ago
started developping apps for mobile in 2009. at that time, i aimed for ios development and blackberry. it took me 2 months to get my first app on ios, and i thought "ok, now let's start learning about blackberry".
So, i downloaded their doc. iirc, they had three ways to develop apps. one was using web technology, and you couldn't do much. then they had two different sets of java apis : an old, discontinued one, with which you seemed to be able to have things work, and a new one, soon to be released, and undocumented.
so i installed their sdk, on my mac, and tried to run a "hello world". but their sdk required windows, because the simulator didn't exist on mac. i had just bought and dual-boot installed a windows 7. but the sdk was just for xp, so i had to run an XP vm inside my windows.
then i launched eclipse, to launch the simulator, to launch the Java program that was supposed to run my hello world.
i never was patient enough for that hello world to show.
then i said " well...let's get back to that once a customer ask for a blackberry development".
and guess what, that customer never came.
- epoxyhockey 13y agoso i installed their sdk In 2010, I didn't even get this far.
- wsc981 13y agoYour experience reminds me of an amusing open letter by a developer (original blog is down, I found a copy) to Developer Relations of RIM: https://www.memonic.com/user/ChrisPolus/folder/4738150b-bd22-4421-a2de-9053de6123be/id/1qNYw https://www.memonic.com/user/ChrisPolus/folder/4738150b-bd22...
- JesseObrien 13y agoI had almost this exact same scenario happen to me. As a developer, I was excited to see what new fun things at the time (2009) were coming out of RIM. To my dismay, like yours, I couldn't even get a hello world to run after much tinkering and configuring. After I learned that they didn't even use the SDK they released into the wild in their own development, I knew it was a lost company. Dogfood and all that.