Hi @all! My name is Rúben Fonseca and I’m the handivi mobile lead developer. Today I’m talking about some improvements on the handivi client for Blackberry.

We certainly feel your pain mind_booster. The more I dig into Blackberry, the more I realize that it’s a solid device with a stable OS, with a great potential for developers. Since OS version 4, Blackberries support a subset of the MIDP 2.0. Soon we realized that our J2ME application could be easily adapted to the Blackberry.

Unfortunately that was easier said than done. The first try to hack a Blackberry
version resulted in a huge fail - the gap between the Blackberry MIDP 2.0 subset and the official profile was too deep.

However, we felt upbeat to try different approaches. I spent more time studying the Blackberry Java platform and found that the missing parts of MIDP 2.0 are implemented using a custom Blackberry API. Last Tuesday was the Blackberry day and I think we made a huge step forward.

Handivi now runs fine on the Blackberry emulators, and we hope to try it on real devices soon. Stay tuned for further mobile developments!