Blackberry Development - Lessons Learned Part 1
April 5, 2007 – 12:45 amAs I prepped the release of our 2007 edition of MLBTracker, I found out that the software wasn’t working correctly on newer blackberries (the 8100 and 8800 use the 4.2 OS). Unfortunately debugging the application wasn’t easy at all. What I ended up needing to do was install the 4.2 JDE. So I had the 4.1 and 4.2 JDE both installed on my machine. I use Eclipse as my IDE, I left the JRE for my project pointing to the 4.1 JDE, but that added new ANT tasks that would deploy the application to the 8100/8800 simulator. This allowed me to get the Eclipse debugger working with the application, from there it only took a few minutes to find that the 4.2 JDE must be more strict when dealing with items in a ListField element (there was a bug that the 4.1 JDE just handled, but on 4.2 it crashed the application).
Stay tuned for the official release announcement for MLB Tracker, you can download it now and help us with our testing!
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