As I have mentioned in earlier posts, we are building a x-platform mobile chat client. One of the platforms is iPhone and that means that the team is having to learn Objective C, and therefore C. Last couple of days, I have been spending time  helping my team understand and appreciate C better. Yesterday, we [...]

Mobile Platforms - Part 2 - Blackberry

As I mentioned on my previous post, we are building a x-platform native mobile chat client for Android, iPhone and Blackberry. The earlier post was about the Android platform, this one is on Blackberry. After having gone thru the Android documentation and videos from Google IO, I found the documentation on Blackberry to be somewhat [...]

Mobile Platforms - Part 1 - Android

One of the products we are building at Directi is a x-platform mobile chat client. Developing it has been arduous – we experimented with Phonegap and then Titanium and found both lacking (see this Quora thread for details). So now we are building this as three native apps, targeting iPhone, Android and Blackberry. In this [...]