On 16 Feb., 05:42, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > Interface Builder is the worst UI builder I've ever used. VB and > Delphi from 13 years ago are lightyears ahead of it... it's VERY > basic. You can't even do basic stuff like click on a button to attach > to a method. The layout management is very primitive. The > integration from code to IB is hugely non-intuitive and manual. Of > course Delphi from 13 years ago is still ahead of any Java UI Builder > I've ever used too, which is sad state of affairs.
I think that the dev tools from Apple aren't that great, but at least they've shipped an IDE, UI builder and (very important) a profiler for the last 1.5 years. RIM won't have a UI builder until the middle of 2010 (http://www.berryreview.com/2009/11/09/rim-announces-opengl-es- support-new-gui-builder-for-eclipse/), Palm has a web-based UI builder in beta (great - one more thing to crash your browser: http://ares.palm.com/Ares/about.html), and the Android SDK doesn't seem to have a UI builder built-in (http://developer.android.com/guide/ developing/eclipse-adt.html) - please correct me if I'm wrong here, and yes, there are third-party offerings. In general, mobile tools traditionally used to be a lot worse than desktop tools, and I'm surprised that Microsoft has had a rather week toolset for Windows Mobile, but that'll probably change with Windows Mobile 7 (see next Mix conference in March). One advantage the iPhone toolset has is that it is very similar to regular Mac development overall, so it's an easy move for Mac developers. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
