spreading jam

Morning session of bada developer day over and time for lunch. It’s been an interesting morning so far with some great talks from Phil Northam, Paul Wilkins, Manfred and Eric Chang covering everything from Samsung marketing through to detailed explanations of method calls. So something for everyone.

Paul Wilkins discussed the merging of systems, connecting your mobile to your PC to your TV, and that Samsung are not just creating brand new exciting electronic products, but are also spearheading this innovation. Anything with a plug has potential basically! So exciting releases expected.

The bada development environment supports c++, the examples made use of the open source eclipse IDE that is a good sign for developers across all platforms and not just PC. However, saying that, it appears the excellent UI builder is currently only supported for PC. Will this become available on Mac?

The namespace bada has created such as content or sound is accessed based on privilege levels. Developers have varying degrees of privileges depending on their status as a developer, if they are a developer partner, then they have full privileges’.

The use of c++ does mean that as developers there is already that wealth of historical knowledge surrounding this tried and tested language, unlike something more bespoke such as objective-c, which is relatively new. There has been a tweak to the original language, in particular the use of exceptions, bada has developed its own process for this, and because of such, they have also created there own construct method, with manual memory assignment.

The UI allows for the standard handset objects such as lists, buttons etc, but it also allows developers to embed flash objects and actual browsers into their applications.

A great feature is the ability to embed browsers into your applications, Eric Chang showed us a great use of this, using Google maps, and the standard Google map JavaScript API, what’s more, developers don’t require a Google api key to embed the maps!

Looking forward to the afternoon session.