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BlackBerry Playbook to lose Android side-loading for fear of piracy

09 April 2012 by Michael Crider Discuss (22)

Well, so much for that. Just a couple of months after formally introducing the capability to use Android apps on their BlackBerry Plabook tablet, Research In Motion has announced plans to disable the updated OS’ capability to install Android apps outside of the BlackBerry App World. AllThingsD reports that the OS 2.1 update will disable the side-loading …

Android Community Evening Wrap-Up: February 21, 2012

21 February 2012 by Sam Koutroulakis Discuss (0)

Today, the Cyanogen team finally showed off their new logo and boot animation for CyanogenMod 9. It looks much like the previous boot animation from the start, but instead of the revolving arrow, the team has added a ‘digital warp tunnel’ of some sort. There’s no doubt this new animation takes advantage of screens with …

Playbook OS 2.0 available today, officially brings Android apps to BlackBerry

21 February 2012 by Cory Gunther Discuss (9)

Wait a minute, BlackBerry Playbook news on an Android site? Yup. This is a PSA to let the few that care know that the BlackBerry Playbook has just been updated starting today to their new OS v2.0 bringing Android app support and a few other desperately needed features to the tablet. Now it even has …

Porting your Android app to the BlackBerry PlayBook? Make due without ads

17 February 2012 by Michael Crider Discuss (2)

A lot of Android developers have been looking at the BlackBerry PlayBook as a new revenue platform, since RIM has developed a set of tools that make porting Android apps to the PlayBook OS a piece of cake. That interest only increased when RIM started literally giving tablets away to Android developers who joined the …

Desperate measures: BlackBerry Playbook developer giveaway extended by two weeks

13 February 2012 by Michael Crider Discuss (14)

Remember that stunk that BlackBerry maker RIM pulled to get Android developers to submit their apps to the BlackBerry App World? You know, the one that essentially gives away the company’s one and only tablet to anyone willing to jump ship? After an excited initial response from Android developers, RIM has decided to extend the promotional …

RIM lures Android developers with free BlackBerry PlayBooks

02 February 2012 by Michael Crider Discuss (6)

Are you an Android developer? Do you collect obsolete and failed pieces of technology in a museum of electronic sadness? Looking for something to fill the space in between your HP TouchPad, Palm Folio and Nintendo Virtual Boy? Then Research in Motion has a deal for you. The Canadian BlackBerry manufacturer wants to build buzz around the …

RIM’s new CEO says that all Android phones are the same, kettles are also black

27 January 2012 by Michael Crider Discuss (18)

On the off-chance that there are any RIM investors reading this story, hoping against hope that the company would try something drastic (like using Android) to reverse its worldwide downward slide… you might want to give your portfolio manager a call. After months of almost universally gloomy news for the Blackberry manufacturer, they installed a …

BlackBerry Playbook gets hacked Android Market support

06 December 2011 by Michael Crider Discuss (6)

We don’t cover the BlackBerry Playbook here on Android Community because, well, it’s a BlackBerry. But some recent community mods may change that, at least after a fashion. IntoMobile reports that the latest rage amongst Playbook modders is rooting via a tool called Dingleberry (no comments form the peanut gallery, please). It turns out that …

RIM outs details on Blackberry Runtime for Android Apps

28 September 2011 by Shane McGlaun Discuss (6)

If you are one of the few that went out and purchased a Blackberry Playbook and have been waiting with some modicum of patients for the Android app support promised to land new details have surfaced. Sadly, the news isn’t very good. RIM engineers have noted some things that will be unavailable when you run …