On 05/22/2012 03:00 PM, Nathan wrote:
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
I am interested too and downloaded their kits but haven't installed them
yet. I have one customer who has the Playbook and wants one of my paid
apps (he has an Android phone with it). But one customer does not make
an overwhelming demand. I get that for an iOS version but that is a
much more substantial investment.
They have several different ways of licensing an app including
subscriptions, etc. Much of what they have is what Digital River has so
I'm wondering if DR is handling their backend?
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