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Developing for BlackBerry Playbook

I am an Android developer and I wish to begin making apps for the BlackBerry Playbook. I understand there are two options available for developing for the Playbook: Android Air & WebWorks SDK. How do I decide which to use? What are the limitations, pros and cons of each?

Thanks!

Solution

  • There are as of today only those two options available. The others are all announced for future support, but none are generally available yet.

    To decide between the two existing options, basically it depends on whether you are very strong in web technology (HTML5/CSS/Javascript) or not. If you are strong there, you pick WebWorks. If not, go with the AIR approach, which involves learning the Flash APIs and the ActionScript3 language. ActionScript3 is Javascript-like, but closer to Java in many ways. Not a bad language really. Even has static typing, decent performance, etc.