Blackberry Edition

[Andy Wilbourn]

I know Ryan had said he would work on the Blackberry edition and I offered to assist. I have been starting to look at just getting connected to the database Ross has created, but it is only possible on the OS 5, which is not the version on the phone I have to test with.

 

Were there others out there who were considering to help and have a newer version phone? Otherwise, the question would be do we just leave it alone or do we create some other type of database format? I had created the converter tool for the desktop written in Java so it can run on the PC and Mac. That was my first official Java app, so I am not as familiar with other possible database stores. I have read for the Blackberry they have a few different ways to persist data, but none seem to be more of a relational database storage.

 

Thoughts?

[Andy Wilbourn]

I have run across this and not sure if it would be another candidate for a database backend. I am thinking for Windows Phone 7 (Silverlight) and Blackberry (older than OS 5) could benefit from it.

 

http://www.mcobject.com/perst_eval

[Daniel Preece]

I have been interested in working on this project as well.  In fact, before I knew about this group, I had started working on a prototype but I stopped development on it in anticipation of the ward tools version.  I have a blackberry storm running OS 5.0 but the blackberry development environment comes with emulators for several of the phones so we can program for OS 5.0 even if you don't have one of those phones.

Dan

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[Andy Wilbourn]

Well I have started with playing with the Blackberry coding and not sure how this would be Open Sourced. Mainly meaning I have my own license to sign the code, well for certain APIs is what it is needed and not sure we would use them in this application. Since the older phones will not support SQLite, a different means is needed to have the data for the application (which is a shame with all the work Ross has done to make things consistent).

 

I will add to source control code if I find the time to get back on this project, which I hope to as my wife has a Blackberry and would like to have Stake data as she has a Stake calling.

 

I am planning to try and use the product found here as the persitent store of the data, which I should be able to add into the converter app since it is Java based. http://www.mcobject.com/perst_eval As open source it is free, for commercial apps it is reasonably priced.