Video: Hands-on with the BlackBerry textbook Android app players

An early build of Android app player leaked today, and I have it running on my BlackBerry textbook. Will check it out? It's still pretty easy, and you can perform from the looks of things, only core Android applications. Still, the browser running well and despite a little Lagginess, native Android keyboard work in quer-and portrait orientations. Herumspielen on Android beta player takes a bite out of battery life, but that tends to be the last thing considered prior to shipment. If RIM finally releases this for Realz this summer, they can send their Android apps on BlackBerry App world developer, and she sold and downloaded as anything else in there.

Navigation is straightforward, as you can see in the video below; a to delete below from top touch-sensitive is area such as the menu key on a standard Android phone. A diagonal swipe from bottom is as pressing the back button. Native app switch from top-down inside blows from the pages is keep or delete. How to get installed it?

First, you must have installed the BlackBerry Java runtime environment. Then you download the must.BAR file for the Android player (fast, before RIM takes it down!). Then you have to DDPB to get the installer to "Sideload".BAR files (and others, when you try to have something else later interested in). Then you need to put your textbook of developer mode from the options menu. After you give to use a password, tap the icon new at the top of your textbook's IP address to find, punch, which will set the DDPB Installer, once connected your textbook via USB, and you, should you install.BAR. It will take a little while to load as a boat up for the first time, but once it has, you will see screen a mostly empty. To drag, swipe down from the top menu, and you can view, to all you find files installed under change. Voila!

Some core things such as camera, GPS, Bluetooth, access to the file system and Wi-Fi control are still absent, but the source says this app player is actually pretty old, so don't jump to conclusions. Of what we have seen in official demos run is actually pretty smooth, and app developers can convinced will submit their completed Android apps on the BlackBerry App world, I think it will make much more attractive a device the Playbook.