PocketBuilder

A rapid application development tool for building mobile and wireless applications.

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Features & Benefits

PocketBuilder is a rapid application development (RAD) tool for building mobile and wireless applications running on Microsoft PocketPC and Windows-Mobile™ based devices. It empowers you to build data-driven applications to run your business in just hours. Deliver critical information to your mobile users, wherever they are, whenever they need it.

Developers who currently use PowerBuilder can leverage their skill-set as well as their code to create new—or extend existing—applications using PocketBuilder. New developers will find it is a powerful yet easy-to-use 4GL IDE (Integrated Development Environment).

Reduced Costs	Greatly simplifies development and deployment of enterprise level data driven mobile and wireless applications. Get your projects done faster than ever before - in days and even hours!
Flexible	Test your applications on the desktop, device, or emulator - whichever is easiest for you. Create prototypes in minutes and get user input while viewing it on the desktop or the device itself.
Extreme Productivity	Time is money, so get the job done, fast. Build mobile applications quickly and get your enterprise data to mobile users, keeping them always up-to-date. With PocketBuilder, 5 lines of code does the work of 50 lines compared to other IDEs, and 100 lines compared to C++ or Java.
Minimize Risk	PocketBuilder is built on proven technology tested over time by hundreds of thousands of developers. This ensures that you're working with a rock solid product. You can't afford to trust your key business applications to just any tool.
Speeds Application Development	The only real, complete RAD software 4GL IDE for mobile application development with hundreds of built-in functions and properties reduces the amount of coding required and eliminates the need to directly interface with complex APIs.

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PocketBuilder Screen Shots

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PocketBuilder combines the power of placing a voice call in just a few lines of code with a natural way to create user interfaces. This typical screenshot shows a customer contact application where a picture and phone number come from a database lookup, with the option to dial or SMS the customer.

PocketBuilder has additional features like an easy connection to a multitude of GPS receivers. This screenshot shows the ease in which you can retrieve the current GPS location and display for the user. This data can also be shared with mapping packages to display driving directions. The classic example for the use of GPS with the mobile workforce, is routing a worker from one customer visit to another. No need for a book of maps and looking up addresses. Using PocketBuilder, your application can feed the next customer's address into the mapping package.