Comments on: OS 4.5 & 4.6 Device Simulators Are Bundled In The JDE

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:24:27 +0000

Couple of issues. First, as Nathan says, they don’t appear to work with the Plazmic 4.5 CDK. Which is odd, since this version of the CDK is ONLY for OS 4.5. Which means that it’s impossible to test content (like themes) with a simulator though tool integration. You need to do this manually.

Seems off that Plazmic would have links of the CDK page to simulators that aren’t 4.5 and therefore don’t work.

Second issue, I can’t get this working under Vista. When I run the simulator tool, it immediately crashes. Not sure if this is a Vista issue or something else.

Third issue, some of us aren’t developing in Java and don’t need a whole JDK to have use for a simulator. I like simulators to test software before loading on my device. And, more recently, to test themes I’m working on (see issue #1). Since I don’t have a Java dev environment on my machine, I don’t meet to prerequisites. Nor do I want to. Maybe this is the reason for issue #2?

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:32:38 +0000

Anyone know why my Plazmic 4.5 would not be able to find the simulators installed with the JDE?

By: Ronen Halevy

Ronen Halevy — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:08:20 +0000

No worries Richard! I just got about 10 emails in the last week asking for the bold simulator. I wanted to let everybody know.

I appreciate corrections. That’s what comments are for…

By: Richard Puckett II

Richard Puckett II — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:02:16 +0000

Yeah, simulators have been bundled with the JDE since before 4.3; I just didn’t want to sound like a jerk and “correct” the same post twice in the same day. Figured it was water under the bridge.

It’s cool; maybe if I got outside more I’d have a life outside of mobile development.

@DavidB Thunder is 4.7

By: Ronen Halevy

Ronen Halevy — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:37:19 +0000

Jibi,
From what I understand they have been in the JDE for awhile but some people (like me) were used to downloading the simulators separately at this link:
http://na.blackberry.com/eng/developers/downloads/simulators.jsp
I just wanted to make sure that everybody knew where to find them now.
I also tried the latest OS 4.6.0.92 simulator and did not notice much improvement but it looks good. I wonder why RIM did not include it in the Beta JDE…

By: BB World » Rilasciato il simulatore di OS 4.5 e BOLD (4.6)

BB World » Rilasciato il simulatore di OS 4.5 e BOLD (4.6) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:22:40 +0000

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By: DavidB

DavidB — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:56:37 +0000

So no Thunder simulator yet? Or that was 4.7?

By: Jibi

Jibi — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:04:07 +0000

Simulators have been included in the JDE packages for quite some time. I honestly cannot recall an individual simulator package until the late 4.1 stages. Once you start having actual carrier releases of the supported devices and/or the new OS’s, the individual simulator packages will be made available.

Just to let you know, there *is* a 9000/4.6 simulator package that is not part of the JDE. It’s a tad over 80MB in size (a zip file) for OS 4.6.0.9x.