Comments on: Android development vs. Blackberry Development

By: inteist

inteist — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:28:47 +0000

Hey Ian, there is no drag and drop tool for UI development for Android at the moment but I hear that such tool is being developed and we would eventually have it.

Android ecosystem is very lively with a lot of web presence in a form of forums, tutorials, discussion boards etc…

The best place to start would be the http://developer.android.com good luck!

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:01:20 +0000

Actually, I have been trying to learn Android development, but I have had absolutely no luck. Perhaps I don't grasp the entire development paradigm, or perhaps the development environment and tools for authoring really suck big weenies.

I have been developing for more than 2 decades, and I am experienced and fluent in more than 50 languages and platforms… but I have to admit, this sucker has me stumped. Is there a magic pill somewhere that will empower me to learn Android development? …or perhaps someone, somewhere, has a nice drag and drop RAD environment ready to go.

I will keep trying to muscle through it, but it just doesn't look too promising.
If any hot-shot developers care to teach this old dog new tricks, I would be eternally grateful… and I will definitely make it worth your time.

By: inteist

inteist — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:56:31 +0000

@Igor – 3.5 is supported already (although 1.1 plugin is in beta).
64bit OSes are NOT supported however. As simple thing as adding a JAR library to your project can not be done in Eclipse (I tried – spent couple days trying – no joy…)

@android developer
Yeah – Nexus one should be a great phone, but it will not be an iPhone killer… Android won’t be an iPhone killer at least not yet…

There is a good post I just posted today here:
http://blog.androidz.info/2010/01/who-will-rule-the-mobile-market-in-5-years/
check it out

By: android developer

android developer — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:13:41 +0000

In my opinion, the Android is in position to directly compete with the iPhone. With the nexus one coming out early 2010. And their updated app store rumors, Google is doing things right.

By: Igor G.

Igor G. — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:07:14 +0000

I agree with the author of this article. I’ve been playing around with BlackBerry development for almost a week now, and am considering abandoning it in favor of Android development. Here are just few reasons:
1) Almost no support for BB JDE plugin for Eclipse 3.5
2) Very difficult to get JDE working in a Linux environment
3) Don’t want to run a Windows VM solely for BB development. I’d much rather stay in my native Linux OS

… And all of this from a guy who is merely a beginner in BB development. I can’t imagine the headaches one would have to transcend to become an expert in BB development.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:20:38 +0000

I feel your pain.. developing a gui that doesn’t look like complete garbage and consists of anything more complicated than a list of checkboxes takes an enormous amount of time and exposes so many quirks in the way fields are rendered it is beyond painful…

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