Comments on: RIM’s expanded App Ecosystem: the benefits for developers

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 18 May 2011 23:16:00 +0000

There is no information anywhere on the blackberry site about re-packaging an Android app for use in the Playbook as of yet. From what I can tell they have not released this for broad developer use yet.

Please tell me I’m wrong and post the links on the info developers need !!!!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 20:14:00 +0000

Any idea if this will include a plug in that for Eclipse? I bought Flash Builder and it would be very nice if I could have Actionscript/MXML and C++ open in the same editor.

By: Todd

Todd — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:19:00 +0000

I highly doubt you’re an Android developer. If you were, you would already know about repackaging your Android app. and submitting it. Nice try though.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:08:00 +0000

This is not only good for developers but will also benefit end consumers a lot as well. It’s quite a win-win solution, a right move for RIM. However I hope that it would be the same with BlackBerry smartphones OS as well.

By: James Moore

James Moore — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 06:04:00 +0000

“Because of the app players we’re providing, if there are developers currently developing for the Android platform, they can now rapidly move onto our platform while they evaluate our other development paths. We can now offer such developers an on-ramp to package and distribute their apps to our growing customer base of consumers, enterprises and governments.”

I’m an Android developer.

I don’t care about your other paths. They’re cute, but they’re dead ends. You’re getting destroyed in the market, right? Tell us how you’re just going to run plain Android apps, and we can consider adding some Blackberry-specific features if your marketshare happens to pull out of its death spiral.

And please let us know that you’re going to just be able to run unmodified Android apps. Anything less is a complete waste of everyone’s time. There are some bits in there that indicate we might have to make modifications to run on Blackberry; that’s rolling-on-the-floor-laughing-so-hard-I-can’t-breathe stupid, so I doubt it’s true, but it’s tough to read your articles. They’re light on facts and heavy on marketing gibberish.

By: Mike Kirkup

Mike Kirkup — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 14:12:00 +0000

We will have a final gold 1.0 version available at launch of the PlayBook.

By: Smugrik

Smugrik — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 01:42:00 +0000

I think it is really nice to have such a broad range of technologies to choose from when developping for BlackBerry devices. I really like to develop apps on the PlayBook with the Tablet OS SDK for Adobe, are there any plans to port these tools for BlackBerry smartphones, so an Adobe PlayBook app could be also easily exported and packaged for BB phones?

By: Yousif Abdullah

Yousif Abdullah — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:06:00 +0000

Any word on the availability of final AIR / WebWorks SDK?