subject: BlackBerry Application development environment is still most proffered for the advent years [print this page] BlackBerry Application development environment is still most proffered for the advent years
With the flood of mobile applications, churned out over the globe, we find the race among platforms to develop mobile applications for in 2010. And in these trends smartphones are thriving while old mobile players like Nokia are jostling with these smartphones.
There is big list of mobile platforms that has a name like Apple iPhone, Google Android, RIM BlackBerry, Nokia Symbian, Windows Mobile, Sun J2ME and Qualcomm BREW. But As of 2010, the future is clearly somewhere in the iPhone, Android and the Blackberry.
If we think about mobile application development, we can say BlackBerry Apps development has a clear head start over other smartphones, especially Apple and Google's Android and it has 55% market share in North America, 20 million subscribers on App World and app downloads approaching a million per day. Reaching the last quarter of the year 2010, we can predict about how a mobile application will look over the next year.
For the next five years, we should look at what it takes to put together a BlackBerry application. For that, innovative applications are not the prime thing to define the future of smartphone; rather the next choice is the development environment that directly tells about operating system and software development kits.
BlackBerry development environment is supportive for documentation and downloads for both Java and web development. So JAVA project can easily be developed while BlackBerry application developers need to download tools including either the BlackBerry Java Plug-in for Eclipse v1.1 or the BlackBerry Widget SDK v1.0. Apart from that, BlackBerry Device Software v5.0 is also useful for the development of BlackBerry Widget applications.
To create custom smart phone themes, mobile websites and animated content for BlackBerry devices, BlackBerry Theme Studio is helpful to application developers. BlackBerry Development environment also provides other requirements including BlackBerry web plug-in for Eclipse or Visual Studio. That is how BlackBerry environment has become most fine-tuned platform to get started without having to jump through any hoops.
