Just submitted my PlayBook application to Blackberry for approval
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You might have noticed that it's been quiet around here for a few weeks. You might remember that Blackberry is giving away PlayBook tablets to any developer who creates an application and gets it approved in Blackberry's App World? Well I've been working hard on my PlayBook application and I finally got it submitted for approval. That means that according to everyone I've talked to I qualify for the free PlayBook.
It was a difficult process, and one that I almost didn't finish. Difficulties with Flash Builder Burrito, the PlayBook SDK, the export process, and a programmer's general laziness all conspired to keep me from completing the task, but thanks to the help of a few friends and my trusted companion, "the internet", I prevailed.
Thanks in no specific order: Ben Stucki, Sim Bateman, T. Scot Clausing, Doug Reynolds, Joseph Labrecque, and Tony Lukasavage.
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In this new economy, where no one has any money, and no one has any time, I think giving away computers in return for development is becoming a trend. After all, how much would Blackberry have needed to have paid you to develop the same app? Of course, this way they don't have any say in what you develop, but there is something to be said for market share as well. "We have X thousand apps!" is what they need to combat similar products.
Phillip Senn - March 30, 2011 10:43 am
I agree Phillip. It was quite a challenge to build the app using Actionscript and Flex, but overall I'm glad that I've done it, and finished it. I really hope that Adobe will someday allow developers to use HTML/JavaScript to build AIR for Android applications. That would allow me to build web, desktop, iOS, Android, and PlayBook applications with one codebase much like Flex developers can now.
andy matthews - March 30, 2011 03:35 pm