Blackberry PlayBook Updates

[Dushie]

This is good to hear. With the price cut playbook sales really shot up and the demand went up.Sent from my BlackBerry Runtime for Android Apps using Tapatalk 2 Beta-5

 

[Sushubh]

disable signature. apparently your tapatalk is overriding the forum setting.

 

[mhsabir]

Oddly enough, I was facing the problem that the signature used to get reset from none to like dushie above everytime I restarted the playbook, but it seemed to have resolved on its own. I bought the tapatalk 1 for playbook, but somehow more comfortable with the colors in tapatalk 2, which I hear is not coming to Playbook officially due to some APIs not being supported, but sideloading works fine, so not sure what's the problem.

 

[mhsabir]

And the next day after I post it, Tapatalk updates the official version to version 2. Anyway glad to be using the updated version officially now.

 

[mhsabir]

Another thing, it installed as a separate app, so now I have 2 apps installed - Tapatalk 1 and Tapatalk 2 separately.Not to mention the unofficial v2, which I will be removing shortly

 

[mhsabir]

An official Native App from TimesIndia is released yesterday for Playbook for IPL5, but seems funny they are releasing it so late in the tournament, unless they want to continue having that as their cricket app or it got delayed for some reason for approval at blackberry.An unofficial port of Android was available for a while though

 

[mhsabir]

Based on previous trend, final release of 2.1 should be out by Mid-June


BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.1 Beta coming this month | PocketBerry

 

[Sushubh]

all the latest news reports about RIM is about the mess they are in today and how they are going to fire a large number of people in the coming days. things are not looking good for blackberry 10.

 

[mhsabir]

Yup, reports are unfavourable, but they have all their eggs in one basket, i.e. BB10, remains to be seen what comes out when the eggs hatch. BB10 might eventually bail them out or be the final nail in the coffin.

 

[mhsabir]

2.1 Beta Out now

BlackBerry PlayBook 2.1.0 Beta for Developers Launches «BlackBerry Developer Blog

There are three major enhancements to the Android™ Runtime in 2.1.0:

Each Android app will now run in its own window. This greatly improves the user experience and consistency among the other application runtimes.
Access to the Camera hardware is now supported for Android apps, allowing many more application types to work on the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet.
In-App Payment is now supported through the BlackBerry Payment SDK, so Android applications can include virtual items for sale in their applications.

For those of you wandering around the rest of the BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.1 beta, you’ll notice a few extra enhancements geared towards end users such as:

Portrait support for Email, Calendar and Contacts
Improved folder support including IMAP folder support
The other 2.1 features will come full steam when the new OS is commercially released. The 2.1 Android SDK will be released in beta coinciding with the OS release, and the 2.1 Native SDK will be posted next week, with an update to the Adobe® AIR® SDK to come shortly after.