{"id":42727,"date":"2012-02-03T10:13:48","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T08:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=42727"},"modified":"2012-02-03T11:16:43","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T09:16:43","slug":"rim-giving-android-developers-free-playbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/42727-rim-giving-android-developers-free-playbooks.html","title":{"rendered":"RIM giving Android developers free PlayBooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Research in Motion (RIM)\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/313525-Research-in-Motion-%28RIM%29\">Research In Motion (RIM)<\/a> previewed the company\u2019s <a title=\"BlackBerry\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342709-BlackBerry\">BlackBerry<\/a> PlayBook 2.0 update at the Consumer Electronics Show last month which will bring with it support for <a title=\"Android Mobile Oerating System\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/221979-Google-Android\">Android<\/a> applications.<\/p>\n<p>The next step for RIM is to woo Android developers over, and they are hoping to do this with the promise of a free BlackBerry PlayBook.<\/p>\n<p>But only for those who repackage their Android applications for the BlackBerry App world.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made by <a title=\"Alec Saunders\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/401341-Alec-Saunders\">Alec Saunders<\/a>, RIM\u2019s vice president of developer relations over <a title=\"Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/359584-Twitter\">Twitter<\/a> yesterday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Developers have until 13 February to submit their applications for approval, and can use the toolset provided by RIM <a title=\"RIM webapps\" href=\"https:\/\/bdsc.webapps.blackberry.com\/android\/tool\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at <a title=\"Boy Genius Report news site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2012\/02\/02\/rim-woos-android-developers-with-free-playbook-tablets\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boy Genius Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research In Motion is giving Android developers who repacked their apps for the PlayBook free PlayBook tablet devices<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":26963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[8651,397,97,99,405],"class_list":["post-42727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-alec-saunders","tag-android","tag-blackberry","tag-rim","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42735,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42727\/revisions\/42735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}