When RIM announced their new Built for BlackBerry quality app program and $10,000 developer commitment last week they focused on Native and WebWorks apps. Adobe AIR developers felt a little left out in the cold bunched together with Android Runtime apps. Quite a few devs asked RIM to reconsider and it worked. RIM’s ultimate goal for both programs was to help developers build successfully BlackBerry 10 businesses and creating great apps for BlackBerry 10 owners. Adobe AIR apps can be both so they are now included in both offers.
It all comes down to quality now. Check out the details over at the official Built for BlackBerry and the $10K Developer Commitment pages.
bbquincar ( View Profile) - Posts: 27
Posted: September 13, 2012 at 9:41 AM EST
RIM is doing a good job at pusing dev as much as then can. I hoping with all the incentives that great project are started and completed and BB10 comes out on top.
kiddo2050 ( View Profile) - Posts: 813
Posted: September 13, 2012 at 11:26 AM EST
I don’t like the Air Apps on my PB hopefully none of them win the challenge. They make PB look bad.
kiddo2050 ( View Profile) - Posts: 813
Posted: September 13, 2012 at 11:27 AM EST
Oh, I do like that Native SDK logo. Is that new??
Ronen Halevy ( View Profile) - Posts: 3286
Posted: September 13, 2012 at 11:56 AM EST
I do think that is a new native logo. Good eye
bbquincar ( View Profile) - Posts: 27
Posted: September 13, 2012 at 11:48 AM EST
What are some of the air apps on the playbook how do you tell the differnece
kiddo2050 ( View Profile) - Posts: 813
Posted: September 13, 2012 at 11:52 AM EST
The email and App World are written in Air. They don’t work well.
Joe257 ( View Profile) - Posts: 628
Posted: September 13, 2012 at 1:17 PM EST
Slow like molasses and single threaded — one task at a time.
Joe257 ( View Profile) - Posts: 628
Posted: September 13, 2012 at 1:18 PM EST
BlackBerry News on PlayBook, Email, Contacts, Calendar, App World…
Ronen Halevy ( View Profile) - Posts: 3286
Posted: September 13, 2012 at 1:22 PM EST
It was sort of interesting that until RIM changed the rules this week they did not consider many of the playbooks main apps to be “built for BlackBerry”
Ronen Halevy ( View Profile) - Posts: 3286
Posted: September 13, 2012 at 11:56 AM EST
Yeah it adds another abstraction layer. Personally I think a lot of the change was for games.
bbquincar ( View Profile) - Posts: 27
Posted: September 13, 2012 at 11:56 AM EST
oh very true so why did RIM make them in Air instead of native. thats very weird then just last min add them to the Built for BlackBerry.
Joe257 ( View Profile) - Posts: 628
Posted: September 13, 2012 at 12:17 PM EST
Supporting AIR is like supporting Java. For best performance, let’s go native!