Native Development

[coolthumbs]

My desktop died recently and I`ll be replacing it with a laptop.  I`m curious if anyone is using a laptop to develop for BlackBerry 10 with the NDK and simulators.  I know the specs the laptops are supposed to have, but I don`t have a lot of time and don`t want to wind up buying something I`ll have issues with.

Thanks for any responses.

[Innovatology]

On the road I use an old Dell Latitude XT2 (Core2 duo 1.4ghz, 3GB RAM). Not the fastest, but fine for use at conferences etc, and once Eclipse and VMWare have booted up it works quite well. Now if only the simulator would work properly with the touchscreen... It registers touches but translates the coordinates incorrectly.

[BGmot]

MacBook Pro works very well. You'll have to purchase VMWare Fusion to play with Simulator though.

[guignards]

I do all my developing on a Acer Aspire TimelineX 

Works well. Rarely lags. 

[bdaemon]

X220i 

Cpu :  i3

graphic: HD3000

memory : 4G

Hard dirver: SSD

the big problem for me :

the height of the  simulator   is 1280 in portrait mode,  too big for the laptop screen.

so have to rotation like this.

[guignards]

Have you tried resizing it using the controller in the Simulator install files? 

[bdaemon]

thanks

how to config?

I setup the display to 1024*768, but can't launch.

[daryl_martin]

You can change the resolution of the simulator using the instructions below.  If you change the settings via VMWare it may not boot properly.  

https://developer.blackberry.com/devzone/develop/simulator/simulator_configuring.html

Since Beta 2 we have set the default resolution of the simulator to be 70% of the origional size which should fit on most screens.  

Hope this helps!

[bdaemon]

hi, daryl_martin

so great, thanks.

[borceg · Accepted solution]

For NDK any good config will do the job, but for simulator CPU and GPU are most important. CPU must support Virtualization (Intel vt-x or vt-d preferred, AMD don't even think about it!) and GPU must have good OpenGL support. Personally, neither ATI not nVidia work good. Surprisingly, old integrated Intel HD4500 with latest drivers worked like a charm.