Work as a mobile apps developer fulltime.
I mainly do Android and iPhone, but I've done BlackBerry and iPad as well.
For my spare time I work on my 2d android mmorpg: http://developingthedream.blogspot.com/
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#32I've only just started working through the big nerd ranch iphone guide and have a few basic, simple ideas for apps that I'll be trying to get onto the app store within the next couple months. No real delusions of grandeur, I'm just curious and have gotten somewhat bored of doing web development, so something new and challenging seemed like a good idea.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
A limited version of Java 1.4, the UI set is custom build, Writing a kindlet bit similar to writing an old fashioned applet. Limited memory/processing power though, but you can do fun some stuff, but the eInk slow refresh rates is the largest limitation.
There is no functional app store, right? There is an app I'd make on Kindle if the distribution channel works. Now I'll make it for iPad and maybe Android tablets.
There's the Kindle store.
I think the main problem is getting ahold of the SDK.
I thought it was a variety of J2ME they used.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
+1 for J2ME. Some of us will not let our Nokia 6303's go :)
Not only on old phones, think about all those Chinese ripoffs of the iPhone, Nokia, etc... yeah! running J2ME!
True. Also consider most of the world of Nokia Series 40, which by far destroys any other mobile operating system:
"Analyst estimates place the total number of devices shipped with S40 close to 1.5 billion, as of the end of 2010" [1]
[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Series_40
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#35I'm genuinely surprised to see webos people. Are you still developing for webos or did you stop after the announcement?
Still doing some maintenance on webOS for now (firesale TouchPads have been a nice shot in the arm...plus the fact that Palm decided to give a bunch of promo codes away for one of my apps!) but I'm working on an Android app for now and probably Windows Phone after that.
If webOS hardware comes back, I'd love to develop more apps for webOS, though.
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#36You missed J2ME (which has certain, but not 100% overlap with Symbian OS development). Now even Bada supports J2ME apps.
Wrote far to many games for J2ME the best of which was definitely Discworld, some really "great" memories of dealing with the fragmentation that was present. Mobile dev 7 years ago felt like a war against the brick walls that were in the way, no it feels like the handcuffs are off and the only limitation is ourselves and time
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#37J2ME should be an option
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#38What's this Backberry OS? :-)
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#39For 5 years now I've been occasionally writing more features for Windows CE based barcode scanners. I wouldn't say that qualifies as "Windows Phone", so I didn't vote for that. Thankfully by now we are more and more replacing these Windows CE things with iphones plus sleeves with barcode scanners which gives us a nicer API and the end user gets a much cooler device to work with. The .NET Compact Framework is a beast:…
As part of my degree I had to work in a team developing on some ancient Dell PDA that ran a crippled version of Java 1.4 so I can feel your pain. My favourite bit was having to pull out the SD card from my machine, insert it into the device, run the code then plug it back into my machine to pull my logs so I could see what just happened!
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#40Android, iOS, and BlackBerry here.
While Android and iOS have great Tools, I still hope RIM is going to release a great Native SDK for QNX.