BlackBerry Build Script | December 1st, 2009
Hey everyone,
We’ve been making some exciting progress with PhoneGap recently.
The Ant Window in a PhoneGap BlackBerry project
First, the Mobile Spec - our own homebrew set of tests for the PhoneGap API - is taking off. People are starting to watch it, fork it, and add to it. I am really stoked to see that - keep it coming!
Second, the PhoneGap team has been working on making developing and building PhoneGap applications easier. A big step towards this was putting together some build scripts so that you - the PhoneGap developer - did not have to go through the same, tedious steps to test and develop applications in your platform’s IDE. Shazron recently rolled out an installer for those iPhone PhoneGap developers out there and I saw it in action (as detailed in this post) - it is hot shit. Super-easy! Joe has the same thing going for Android, the Android.jar he put together is a huge step towards that. So, without further ado, I present to you: an Apache Ant build script for PhoneGap BlackBerry! I’ve added it to the repository, as well as instructions in the readme on how to use it.
In my short time using it, the biggest win for me as a developer is the ability to build, sign and deploy to device with one command. It’s super-fast too - way faster than using RIM’s ‘Desktop Manager’ software to load the application onto the device.
If you’ve tried using it, post to the comments and tell me how it went! I’d be glad to help out, too, if you’re having problems.
Have fun!