A introduction on Porting your android app to BlackBerry and why it should be done. It was given as a 1 hour lunchtime lecture at Appsterdam in Amsterdam on 5 February 2014. More information about porting your Android app to BlackBerry can be found here: http://bb-community.nl/en/android-naar-blackberry/

1. Free Money
Android on BlackBerry
Titus Braber & Rik Scheffer

2. Overview
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Why BlackBerry
How?
Demo’s
Win a phone!
Questions?

3. The BlackBerry User
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Multitasker
Connected
Secure
Efficient
Willing to pay
Obama and Cameron making a selfie with
the Danish PM on a BlackBerry Z10.
Source: CrackBerry

4. BlackBerry World
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130.000 apps
High visibility
Free app publishing
High average app price
Source: http://www.slideshare.
net/phuongnam4/mobile-app-stores-report-2013make-money-from-telcos#

5. BubbleSpin
Downloads on Android:
500-1000 in 12+ months
Downloads on BlackBerry:
5000 in 4 months

6. Android runtime
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Android runtime on QNX
Updated to 4.2.2 Jelly Bean
Most API’s supported
Shazam demo

7. APK to BlackBerry
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APK is inconvenient
APK to bar
BlackBerry APK Packager
Demo

8. Eclipse
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Plugin
Easy
Create bar
Debug
Demo

9. Keep in mind
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No Google Play services
In app purchase -> use Billing API 2 or lower
No widgets and alternate home screen
Only one Launch Icon
BlackBerry replaced services

10. Other ways
WebWorks => HTML5 apps
● Full Apache Cordova/Phonegap support
● Most powerful webinspector
Game frameworks with export to BlackBerry
● Unity
● Marmalade

11. Win a phone!
● Contest
● Raffle: win a phone
● More ports = more phones
● http://bb-community.nl/appsterdam/

12. Follow up
● Date, time, location: TBA
● Sign up here for more info
● http://bb-community.nl/appsterdam/

13. Resources
● http://bb-community.nl/appsterdam/
● http://developer.blackberry.com/android/

14. Questions?
Contact
● Titus.Braber@bb-community.nl
@TitusBraber
● Rik.Scheffer@bb-community.nl
@Rik_sch
● info@bb-community.nl