PDA Version of BBO

[mrdct]

I'm just about to take delivery of an Ipaq 6365 running Windows Mobile 2003 for Pocket PC. It would be pretty cool to be able to play bridge with it on the road. Has any thought been give to developing a PDA version of BBO?

[uday]

No, and browsing the requirements for development make it seem like it can't happen anytime soon - we can't simply port our code over, not even close, as far as i can tell

[hrothgar]

Back in the day, I worked for a company called Wind River doing product management for embedded devices. In the course of this work, I had the chance to look at a bunch of different competing OSes, including Windows CE and some of Microsoft's other mobile offerings.

 

As I recall, the internals of the OS families aren't terribly different. For example, we could port our SNMP agent from one OS family to the other with very little work. (With this said and done, we sold portable code and had a nice abstraction layer) However, the GUIs were another story. ENORMOUS differences in screen real-estate. According, we often ran into developers who had to completely redo their GUIs.

[mrdct]

There is bridge game called "Omar Sharif Bridge" that seems to have a GUI that is workable for PDAs.

 

There is a screenshot at: http://www.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=5627

 

I appreciate that the demand for a PDA version may not be huge at the moment, but it would be nice to be able to do things like review LIN files of vugraph, etc. when you're on the bus without having to fire up your laptop.