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monkey500
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August 1, 2011
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Air for Blackberry Playbook

  • August 1, 2011
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Hi guys,

Has anyone tested flash and got good results on the Playbook? Compared to the ipad?

I'm setting up as a Blackberry developer, but I'm unclear about installing it. I installed their SDK, and selected my AIR 2.7 folder

which is in my Flash cs5.5 folder.

1. I was expecting a nice 'Air for Blackberry' option to appear when I opened Flash, but it didn't happen. Can't be sure if it's installed right..

2. Do I just choose an 'AIR' template?

3. If I use Air 2.7, will it still export out and be compatible for Blackberry air 2.5 OS?

Thanks,

Matt

p.s I'll post any findings as I go on this thread.

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Correct answer p-wing47

Just submitted my first app to BlackBerry the other night, waiting to get approved now.

There was a slight learning curve to publishing it; like you said, there's no "AIR for BlackBerry" option right now, but I've heard it's coming. Hope this is true.

These were the two most helpful resources I found. Good luck!

http://supportforums.blackberry.com/t5/Tablet-OS-SDK-for-Adobe-AIR/Tips-Definitive-guide-to-AIR-apps-for-playbook/td-p/1080047

http://www.hsharma.com/tech/tutorials/10-easy-steps-to-package-and-sign-air-apps-for-playbook/

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Rangora
Inspiring
August 8, 2011

I am working on a complex application that need a lot of system resources to render forms dynamically from XML files. I tried it on an iPad 2, a Galaxy Tab and a blackberry Playbook. The Playbook is amazing! My apps is 2x faster on the playbook than on Android or iOS devices! The screen size is perfect for our needs. (The iPad screen is too big if you need to hold it for a few hours in a row... The Playbook fit in a hand. I hope the 3G version will be release soon...

Colin Holgate
Colin Holgate
Inspiring
August 8, 2011

I believe the PlayBook doesn't use GPU, it's just using CPU for Flash apps. It may be that the may you're using the GPU on iPad and Android is performing badly, which can even make it worse than using CPU. So, try it on an iPad with the publishing set to CPU instead of GPU. Then it might be more like you see on the PlayBook.

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monkey500Author
Known Participant
August 8, 2011

Thanks guys, I work in CPU mode at the moment anyway, so it should be easy to port across to the Playbook..

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p-wing47Correct answer
Inspiring
August 2, 2011

Just submitted my first app to BlackBerry the other night, waiting to get approved now.

There was a slight learning curve to publishing it; like you said, there's no "AIR for BlackBerry" option right now, but I've heard it's coming. Hope this is true.

These were the two most helpful resources I found. Good luck!

http://supportforums.blackberry.com/t5/Tablet-OS-SDK-for-Adobe-AIR/Tips-Definitive-guide-to-AIR-apps-for-playbook/td-p/1080047

http://www.hsharma.com/tech/tutorials/10-easy-steps-to-package-and-sign-air-apps-for-playbook/

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monkey500Author
Known Participant
August 4, 2011

Thanks for the links and for confirming the Air option doesn't yet exist!

I tested out the Playbook yesterday in a shop. The flash worked in a website browser, but it wasn't all that fast. Perhaps half the

speed of the web.

I tested a few other tablets and the Motorolla Xoom was the best for Flash. It had no slowdown on my site at all!

I'm now looking forward to try the 10inch Samsung Galaxy tab. Hopefully this will be a big player, and a good Tablet to design for..

Matt

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p-wing47
Inspiring
August 5, 2011

Sure thing, although going through the steps to build it via command line isn't really as daunting as it looks. After you figure it out the first time, it isn't too terrible. We'll see how soon we get a AIR for BlackBerry option (if at all, considering RIM seems to be pretty much getting annihilated right now). Time will tell.

Thanks for the info on the diffrerent tablets' performance. This should be helpful to others that don't have any sort of tablet testing device (which is probably the majority of us).

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