Hi all,
I'm looking for developers interested in helping beta test a web application toolkit for Android application developers. Specifically we are targeting developers who make use of Android's In-App Billing features. Our first service is days away from being beta ready with many more features being developed in parallel. As always, early adopters will get to use the service FREE of charge.
If you sell content in your app and are interested in helping during our beta test please PM me and I can provide more information.
Thanks!
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I realize the laughs, smirks, and shuns that the title of this thread may cause.
However, as the founder and community manager for bnxtreme.com, please hear me out.
I am posting this to clear up/clarify some misunderstanding regarding Android on the Blackberry Playbook.
NOTE: This thread is NOT about rooting the Playbook or completely replacing the QNX OS with Android or dual-booting. I will be creating separate threads for those, and hopefully, with enough traction, it could develop into its own section.
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After DevCon 2011 in October, RIM released their BETA OS2.0 for the playbook.
Included in this release were several new tools for the SDK/NDK, support for additional programming languages, and of course, the reason I'm posting here, a native Android 2.3.3 run-time. Now developers have both on and offline conversion tools to recompile almost any Android APK for use in the BlackBerry PlayBook in BAR format using only a few clicks as shown on the following page:
http s://bdsc.webapps.blackberry.com/android/tool/
Shortly thereafter, the various Blackberry forums throughout the web were abuzz about what could be done with this new BETA, how to get Android apps install, etc...
Within less than a day, the post appeared with very quick and simple directions for users to easily convert Android APK files to Playbook BAR files. Suddenly, the flood gates were now open and the list of applications being converted started to flood in, as did requests for those who 'got it' to do it for them. Less than 12 hours later, the list became too much for one person to manage alone, so a Google Doc was created based on a Google Form where visitors could submit their requests and updates. The list had taken on a life of it's own:
h ttp://bnxtreme.com/drupal/content/apk2bar-list
As you can see from this list, individual PlayBook users have been actively collaborating and converting various applications to demonstrate just how easy the process is. It is hoped that this list of converted applications will help encourage developers to re-release their respective application on the BlackBerry Playbook.
IMPORTANT NOTE: If your application has been added to this list, it was done so because it was believed to be a free application on the Android Market, available as a free trial online, or offered for free through the Amazon Marketplace. If this is not the case, or for any reason you wish to have your application removed from the apk2bar list, please e-mail us at [email protected] and we will have your application permanently removed.
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Now, within the last few weeks, ported Android applications have already started to appear in the Blackberry AppWorld, being made available to anyone running the OS2.0 BETA
ht tp://crackberry.com/handster-android-app-market-begin-submitting-android-apps-blackberry-app-world-behalf-developers
ht tp://forums.crackberry.com/blackberry-playbook-f222/high-quality-free-android-apps-available-app-world-os2-users-679669/
The purpose for this post is to call upon Android developers to start porting their applications and submitting them to the Blackberry AppWorld. Again, the process is extremely simple and will open your applications up to a whole new audience.
Additionally, I am also posting to offer our services. Our team is both willing to help test any early BETA builds or to continue any abandoned development projects on their port to the BlackBerry PlayBook operating system; all you have to do is ask.
For more information on how easy it is to develop your existing application for the Blackberry PlayBook, please visit:
ht tp://us.blackberry.com/developers/tablet/
Thank you for your time to read this posting and we look forward to hopefully developing an active and healthy relationship with xda-developers.
Marc K.
Founder, Project Manager, and Community Manager for the BNXtreme Team.
@technomensch
ht tp://stayinginsync.info
ht tp://bnxtreme.com
I have just purchased a 32Gb Playbook and would love to support your objectives.
I am keen to use the PB on Android...I have little knowledge...but am keen
ANDREW
Why can't it be the other way? Blackberry Apps to Android? That seems to be better
Hi xda community.
this it my first post showing an interesant campaign.
We are four young developers trying to raise money so we can spend all our time building Ares4droid; an open source p2p client for Android that will get access to p2p ares galaxy network.
The Ares Galaxy source code is free so, we only have to code it on Android Platform. What we need is the time it takes to create a elegant mobile version of this software. We are all ready to work for six months totally focused on building Ares4droid. We want to spend all our time writing code to give you a great piece of software. We are going to release our code as free software so everyone can make Ares4droid even better.
Now, we give us any donation in money or promulgate the project idea with the facebook and twitter buttons placed into the project page, for more information about the project visit us.
w.w.w.indiegogo.com/Ares4droid
thank you for read this post, and you can support us in the cause :highfive:
At our Android News site we created a portion of the site devoted to Indie Development and first time developers; our hope is to bring more attention to developers who haven't been able to really show off the full potential of their application to large majority of the public. As many of you have developed before, please help us out and get these guys the much needed publicity they deserve. If you have developed an application and would like some constructive criticism/a review/or more public attention we have a spot just for you guys: you can submit your own applications here!
Both us and the developers appreciate the feedback! Thanks!
We currently have 6 applications up and reviewed over the past few weeks including:
Bend the Laser
Just In Case
Emotisounds
Wifi Timer
NinjaRave
BugMeNot
Dear All,
We are conducting a study on users’ adoption to the new Android Runtime Permission Model.
The study has been approved by the UCL Research Ethics Committee (Project ID Number): 8945/001.
We need your help on this project. Please participate to our survey and distribute it to people you know.
The participants just have to download an Android app (we developed) on their devices from the Google Play Store and answer 6 multiple-choice questions.
It won’t take more than a couple of minutes for the participant to download, install and use the app.
The app can be found at the Google Play Store; look for the “Permissions Snapshot” app (developer: Panagiotis Andriotis).
Mod edit: link info removed.
Please read the information displayed on the app’s page at the Google Play store if you have any further questions.
We request to keep this app on your device for a period of one month after you complete the questionnaire.
You will be given the chance to participate again in due course.
Information given is ANONYMOUS!!!
REQUIREMENTS: As a user,
· You must have a device running the Android Marshmallow Operating System (version 6.0+).
· Your device must be connected to the Internet.
· You are happy to provide us anonymous information related to app permissions on your device.
· You are over 18 years old.
Thank you in advance for your cooperation and help.
Kind Regards,
Dr Panagiotis Andriotis
Thread closed. XDA isn't the place to conduct/promote your market research.
Hello,
I'm Marc Aurel and I'm working with some other developers on the Volla Phone with a custom Android without Google Apps and Play Services. In addition to privacy protection the focus is a new simplified user experience beyond the app centered paradigm of current mobile operating systems.
We'll soon publish our code to invite developers to join the project or just have a look, what we are doing. We want to invite developers to our 2nd community days from 6 to 7 of June with a hackathon. You can find the announcement of the event with a live stream right here in our blog post. https:// volla.online /blog/files/community-days-2020.html
As a developer I will have some questions and I'm happy to answer some questions. I work on the launcher of the Volla OS, implemented with Qt, by the way. So I may can help or exchange experiences with developers working with this technology.
Very nice to see a phone that ships without any Google stuff out of the box. As many users switch to open source operating systems to avoid bloatware and manufacturer stuff sniffing their privacy this is a great project!
I hope the announced hackathon will result in many good ideas and approaches to improve the OSs compatible with the phone (as it also will support Ubuntu touch).
I'm looking forward to hear the results!
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Very nice to see a phone that ships without any Google stuff out of the box. As many users switch to open source operating systems to avoid bloatware and manufacturer stuff sniffing their privacy this is a great project!
I hope the announced hackathon will result in many good ideas and approaches to improve the OSs compatible with the phone (as it also will support Ubuntu touch).
I'm looking forward to hear the results!
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Thanks you for your motivating replay. We'll soon publish our source code of the Android based Volla OS after we have already published our source code for the Ubuntu Touch port in GitHub..
Beyond a discussion on measures to improve data protection, for which short presentations are welcome, we would like to explore ways to improve the user experience in the hackathon. One challenge will be the implementation of a system-wide sidebar that can be displayed with a border gesture. I'll post screenshots as soon I have the rights to post links.
Here the announcement for the community day:
https://volla.online/blog/files/community-days-2020.html
We have prepared an event page, that will be updated soon. You find it on volla.online/vcd2020 for Volla Community Days 2020. We hope to have participants of the Android developer community for our hackathon.