DragonRAD for Windows

User Reviews

• Difficult to learn basics: but powerful

  andybudMarch 3, 2011

  Pros

  Multiple platform deployment tool. Pretty easy integration. support staff is quite good and responsive. Upgrades come quickly and often

  Cons

  Proprietary platform. Small user community. I Find myself counting on support staff for answers. Cannot look up on web like I would for Java or C#. Documentation is not real good and examples leaving you scratching your head.

  Summary

  I can definitely see advantages to this product once you know how to use the application. But getting there is difficult and quite frustrating. There isn't any training classes to speak of and finding help through their documentation can be an exercise in futility. I have developed mobile applications for previous devices and I find that a lot of the complexity is taken away here from deployment and over the air updates. I am not sure I would buy this again but there really aren't that many options that target all of these devices. Don't buy into 30 minute app that they advertise. This would only be the case if you want a very basic data entry screen to save to a database without any real logic or business rules in place.

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• Fast and Complete way to build Enterprise Apps

  abe456December 20, 2010

  Pros

  This tool is by far the best way to build enterprise applications. It connects out of the box to all databases which saved me a vast amount of time. Drag and drop simple to create forms. Same apps works for both BB/Android (and WM if anyone cares).

  Cons

  Takes a little time to figure out how everything works, but that is because the tool is so powerful. Once you get the hang of it, you can hammer out mobile apps in days, maybe even an afternoon.

  Summary

  I've been building mobile applications for several years and wish this tool was around long ago. It would have saved me a lot of time and, more importantly, money. This product pays for itself in no time.

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• Very fast and easy to use

  jason445December 16, 2010

  Pros

  Very intuitive and easy to use Extremely fast application development Responsive support in the forum Seamless integration to MySQL database

  Cons

  Not suited for building games - for building data-driven enterprise applications only

  Summary

  I liked the fact that I could build my application once and have it support both BlackBerry and Android. And the fact I didn't have to write Java made it ten times faster to develop my apps. The development environment is very intuitive and easy to use. I also liked how easy it was to integrate and synchronize with my existing database. Definitely need to try this if you are looking to cut down development time.

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