Now that the ordeal is over, I thought I’d take the time to sit down and share my account of what it was like to develop a Blackberry Playbook application using the Adobe Flex SDK. Like many other Actionscript developers out there, when I heard that RIM was giving away free Playbooks to developers who had an app published by the end of March, which was eventually accepted, I thought, wow, what a great opportunity – this should be a piece of cake and a learning experience. A learning experience it was. A piece of cake, it wasn’t. I won’t bore you by starting from the very beginning. This has already been covered quite eloquently and humorously enough by Jamie Murai here. Suffice it to say that I, and I’m sure most everyone else developing a Playbook app for the first time, went through a nearly identical experience. At the point I begin my story I have a simple game built (this was actually the easy part), the annoyingly VMWare powered simulator is installed and running nicely, and, thanks to studio|chris and fruitbat, I even have a way to easily install and uninstall my game to and from the simulator […]
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