Get a free Blackberry Playbook (Android developers))

[CitizenSmif]

Alec Saunders posted this on his twitter

Shh.... Android Devs - submit your Android app to BB AppWorld by Feb 13 and get a free Playbook --> tools here: http://bit.ly/w758Ci

It's actually simple as fuck to do, it's just an automated conversion. All I had to do was resize an icon.

Does anyone know if they manually review all apps? I've never had a BB and I'm still waiting for my App World account to be activated. I just hope they will ship to the UK (didn't see anything in the T+C)

This article has quite a good story on the possible motives behind this offer

 

[Paper_Chase]

Thanks for the link. I'm definitely interested in creating mobile apps, however, I don't think I can do one befor Feb 13th. Do you think I can just create an app that directs to one of my websites or something?

 

[CitizenSmif]

Yeah, what you could do is just have an HTML based app and just have the actual app acts as a container, serving stored HTML pages.

It should be as simple as

    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        super.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/www/index.html");    }  
}

Alternatively, you could just download some sample source code of a full app from a tutorial (like a simple game or a notepad app or something) compile it then submit to BB.

The only potential problem is the manual review process (which I'm still not sure exists)