RIM launches mobile application development tools

30th July 2009

A new set of mobile application development tools has been launched by Research In Motion (RIM).

The offerings are aimed at web development executives looking to build apps for BlackBerry smartphones and include new plug-ins for the Eclipse platform and Microsoft Visual Studio version 1.2.

According to RIM, the BlackBerry Web Development Plug-in for Eclipse allows developers to work within the Eclipse 3.4 environment when debugging and profiling web pages displaying HTML and CSS content, as well as apps running on Ajax, Silverlight, PHP, ASP, Ruby on Rails, JSP and Python.

The BlackBerry Plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio version 1.2 is an all-in-one offering enabling mobile app development in the Visual Studio 2008 environment using Ajax and ASP.Net.

Alan Brenner of RIM said: "The BlackBerry developer tools portfolio aims to bring together the best of Java and web development for the creation of web applications that are integrated with core BlackBerry smartphone functions."

RIM launched its BlackBerry App World store in April this year.

 

Category: Mobile Web Applications

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