Android App Player for Blackberry Playbook


Description of Android App Player from Addictivetips
Announced in March and demoed at BlackBerry World 2011, the alternate ‘app player’ for RIM’s maiden tablet seems to be nearing its release. That’s right. We’re talking about the very app player that will allow you to run Android apps on your BlackBerry PlayBook. A few hours ago, a link to a beta version of the app appeared on the BlackBerry website, within the changelog of BlackBerry Desktop Manager. The linked page was taken down shortly after, but not before the app was spread across multiple file-hosting websites. The beta version of Android App Player, as it seems, comes packed with stock Android apps. Other apps will have to be downloaded from BlackBerry App World, that is, once they’ve been ported over to the platform by their developers. The app simulates Android home, menu and back buttons with bezel gestures. The on-screen back button that was part of the app during its first demo has been replaced by a bottom-left swipe gesture in the beta.

Description of Android App Player from Into Mobile
The app contains most of the core Android applications, like Settings, messaging, e-mail, clock, phone, contacts, camera, calendar, browser, voice dialer, gallery, downloads, dev tools, and the calculator. The camera app still isn’t communicating with the PlayBook’s hardware, but all of the standard Android controls are available. As demoed by RIM, you can summon the menu by using a downward swipe from the top pane. I’ve figured out that the back key has been mapped to a diagonal upwards swipe from the bottom pane (but not the corner, since that brings up the keyboard, and not straight up since that launches you into multitasking view).The keyboard is a little bit laggy, but both portrait and landscape view is supported. The browser wasn’t able to tap into GPS, and settings aren’t properly registering RAM usage, but it looks like it can tap into the storage memory info just fine. For now it seems like the only accounts you can add are Exchange – no Google love here, as you might expect, but this is RIM’s “first professional grade tablet”, so it does make sense. Unfortunately, I haven’t found a way to load up third-party Android apps just yet.

The apps are running in Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread, which, as Phil points out, is more recent than what’s available to most Android users. Still, as a tablet, one would hope that the Android app player would support Honeycomb 3.0 eventually. Despite some of those functionality in gaps, the source says this leak is a bit older, so there are lkely plenty of improvements on the way before the summer launch of the feature. If you’d like to give this a shot on your PlayBook, you’ll need the necessary software to sideload BAR files, and then install this file. It’s interesting that the file is actually hosted by RIM – the source just happened to know where to look thanks to some log files in the BlackBerry Desktop Software.

So, download Android App Player for Blackberry Playbook from RapidShare or HotFile
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1 comments:

deep vats { August 4, 2011 at 12:52 PM }
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google android application development best operating system and i love all the app and and mostly i love the wallpaper which is load by market

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