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mclin | 14 years ago

Haven't looked into it, but supposedly with BB6+ you can make apps with HTML5/JS. I switched back from iPhone for the bold 9900. It's come a long way.

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edlea|14 years ago

If you're not familiar, it's definitely worth checking out WebWorks (https://bdsc.webapps.blackberry.com/html5/). Even though it is advertised to work on BB5+ it's only really worth considering at 6+.

Also, definitely worth a look is bbUI.js (https://github.com/blackberry/bbUI.js/). It's still very much beta, but RIM are doing a lot of the UI hardwork for you; without it you end up with a white screen and have craft the UI yourself. It's a bit like jQTouch for BlackBerry.

wiradikusuma|14 years ago

Hi edlea, how flexible/complete is it in terms of API compared to native Java? (RIMlets) And how's the performance of the resulting app? (e.g. is it sluggish like PhoneGap's?)