Starting this thread so people can post their experiences, if any, on making their app work on the playbooks.
Blackberry people were actively engaged at AnDevCon to encourage us developers to run our apps. They say they have a dedicated market that is very willing to actually pay for apps, and that may be true. Of course, they made it sound like you just run your apk through a batch file and you are done. My customers think that, of course, but they also think that about creating an iPhone or Windows Phone version. Anyway, there is this web interface that should tell you all the possible incompatibilities in your app. For mine, it showed one thing: Inapp billing, which they expect to add soon. But, big surprise, that doesn't tell you everything. I got a chance to sideload my apk at the BlackBerry booth. It looked not so good, not surprising when my 2.3 layout is shown on a device better suited to 3.2. But pinch and zoom did not work, which I doubt has anything to do with inapp billing. They issued me a playbook to earn my trust, but of course, it would be fun for my daughter to play with as well. I could certainly spend some time with it and see how many surprises are in store. In these lectures, the ones promoting their device will tell you the percentage of the Android Framework API that works. But this is only part of the story. The other part is the *behavior* of the framework. They mentioned that the system kills a process when the app's activity is not active. This is a terrible experience for users doing a download in the background. Personally, I think Blackberry should just start running *Android* and not just kinda run Android apps. Ice Cream Sandwich would be fine. Has anyone gone farther in the process than I have? (which isn't far). Was it worthwhile? Nathan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
