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Good fucking almighty riddance! BlackBerry devices are an absolute nightmare to develop on. I would know, I have been for the past year for a bank, both native and jQuery Mobile.

I might go into therapy for a few months once this project is over.

I'm debating whether to even list any of these projects and related skills on my resume for fear of pigeon holing myself as "the blackberry guy". Honestly most depressing job.

My environment is a locked down, lenovo x120e, running Windows XP. Awful. It's sort of good because when I come home to my beautiful $10k+ mac setup, a single tear roles down my cheek, and I can fire up xcode and do some serious relaxing. Yes, Objective C relaxes me.

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For BB7 or BB10? I've always heard the former is a nightmare but not so much the latter...

BB7 & BB10 alike. They are both bad. BB7 is an order of magnitude worse to develop on.

It's not that BB10 is too bad, it's just that when you run into a specific problem, likely nobody else on the internet has run into the same problem.

Isn't it a big project? Can't you get paid support? This is really depressing to read, especially for me as I may be developing for BB10 in a few weeks.

ECC1 claims are simply false. His Lenovo x120e can barely handle Eclipse. It's no wonder the experience is worse than his '10K$ Mac setup' ...

I've developed native apps for BB10. The tooling is decent. It's a bit heavy since it's based on Eclipse but I had no problems with it. You can also use QtCreator with BlackBerry 10, but I've never tried it. You will mostly use Qt-based APIs anyway in your app, so there's no issue with support. The documentation for BB10 Cascades APIs is very good. There are also lots of official and community submitted samples on Github. For questions I've always used their developer forums which were active.

Kid, I'm not bullshitting. Believe what you want. It's a fucking awful experience.

Just curious, why are you using such a dev environment like the one you describe for writing BlackBerry apps? Why can't you get a more up-to-date setup? I can't see any reason to develop in WinXP anymore.

Believe me, I can't see any either. They are company issued laptops that need to follow certain security procedures. I brought in my mac and ported my code, had like a week of GREAT development before 2 "officials" from the information security team demanded I delete any and all code in front of them. You are absolutely not allowed to use anything beyond the company hardware and software, and I got the short end of the stick as all the good machines have already been "leased" for other projects.

If there is a god he will deliver me from this place.

Yeah, I think the problem is the place you work with, not so much BlackBerry development itself. Though I don't blame you for having a tainted view of it because of these kind of asinine policies as a result.

This guy is completely wrong. Developing for BB10 is so easy. He's right in the sense that it's hard to find people with similar issues, but how is that BlackBerry's fault? Ignore his complaints and continue your plan to develop for BB10. It's a great OS and I love devving on it.

Any new OS will have this problem. Seems like an unfair criticism to me.

What kind of problems are you running into for BB10? Would you mind listing them, I am very curious.

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