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BlackBerry Qt Porting Program - Submit your Porting Plan to receive a BlackBerry Dev Alpha Device

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    daliusd
    wrote on 29 Jan 2013, 21:55 last edited by
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    OK, I understand how it might be trivial to recompile apps for different platform but I wonder why you have so many of them. That's not technical question, that's just my curiosity.

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      Gabaddy
      wrote on 30 Jan 2013, 00:11 last edited by
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      Economics.

      We could have made a small number of "should-be-jackpot" apps or we could have made a large number of apps that contain just the features a regular user would be interested in. And I thought that the second option would most probably yield a greater return on investment on the long term and I'll tell you why.

      We get feedback from users much faster and based on the download numbers we get to pick more easily what's our next app. Hence, with every new app we get to know better what people want. And the faster we know that, the better. In the end we will get more people downloading our apps and of course more money.

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        john_god
        wrote on 31 Jan 2013, 02:16 last edited by
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        Hi
        How much takes for an app to be approved ? I have also submitted mine, but no word from RIM until now.

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          tzander
          wrote on 31 Jan 2013, 07:07 last edited by
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          Are any of you developing on Linux?
          I've been trying to get started and spent some weekends on this, but in the end had to give up since too much stuff didn't work.
          The latest thing that didn't work was the emulator that refuses to get past the boot screen in vmware.

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            john_god
            wrote on 31 Jan 2013, 14:57 last edited by
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            I'm developing on linux. I did get problems to use the simulator, but meanwhile my alpha device arrived and never tried the simulator anymore. Other than that, and same other small issues when porting the code, I'm really enjoying the experience. I like a lot the phone and the OS. I even took a week vacancies to among other stuff, get my hands dirty with the porting.
            I applied for a new phone, if I didn't get one I just hope Blackberry reconsider not deactivating the device. To me that doenst make any sense, if they already did that investment of sending them. I have got other apps I'm planning on developing, and probably so other developers. And don't think it's feasible to rely only on the simulator to deploy the apps.

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              tzander
              wrote on 31 Jan 2013, 15:13 last edited by
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              thanks for your reply john, good to hear its not just me :)
              I applied but didn't receive an alpha phone. So I've already lost the opportunity to get items in the store when bb10 launces, so now I'll wait to buy one in March and see if I can do some porting and publishing by then.

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                john_god
                wrote on 31 Jan 2013, 15:54 last edited by
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                Perhaps meanwhile you can try in Windows ?

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                  daliusd
                  wrote on 1 Feb 2013, 13:35 last edited by
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                  [quote author="john_god" date="1359598604"]Hi
                  How much takes for an app to be approved ? I have also submitted mine, but no word from RIM until now.[/quote]

                  About a week. There was one time it took longer. I guess a lot of people tried to submit before various deadlines.

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                    student4life
                    wrote on 4 Feb 2013, 10:41 last edited by
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                    i have submitted one app (tripAccounts) to BB world. It helps in tracking expenses of multiple groups of people during a trip. i submitted on 24th and got approved on 27th.
                    BB world link "here":http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/22010877/

                    it took more time than expected as i did not receive the dev Alpha device, although I was approved for a device. I did my porting using simulator in linux(openSUSE).
                    now planning to improve the features and create a sister app (for sharing bills) with advanced features.

                    @Thomas
                    the problem you had with the simulator might be due to non-availability of graphics card on ur system. while the simulator boots, you have to choose BB10DevAlphaSafe mode. see simulator "troubleshooting guide":https://developer.blackberry.com/devzone/develop/simulator/simulator_troubleshooting.html
                    if ur processor does not support virtualization technology, the simulator will be very slow.

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                      tzander
                      wrote on 4 Feb 2013, 10:52 last edited by
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                      Thanks, I'll give that a try tonight :)

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                        john_god
                        wrote on 4 Feb 2013, 13:42 last edited by
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                        I submited mine in 21, just checked it's still in draft statuts. Is there any way to see the approval on going process, like in Ovi ?

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