Adobe AIR Development

[peter9477]

Presumably everyone who registered for the WebWorks webcast has received this by now.  (It's of course not limited to those who had registered.)

Thank you for participating in the BlackBerry WebWorks webcast series. We’ve now opened the free BlackBerry Smartphone offer and look forward to seeing your BlackBerry WebWorks in BlackBerry App World.

The main criterion to qualify, is to create an application using the BlackBerry WebWorks toolset and submit it to BlackBerry App World. The first 50 applications submitted will receive a free BlackBerry Style which is locked on the Sprint network. The offer is subject to terms and conditions.

Please visit Developer Zone at www.blackberry.com/developers and look for a link under Key Developments to learn more about the offer and terms and conditions.

Cheers
The BlackBerry Developer Program Team 
 

[tags07]

yep.. just got it and submitted my app  

I wonder how they know if its a Webworks app vs a regular app using Adobe Flex/Actionscripts...

[peter9477]

I would imagine there's something different in the manifest.mf file, if nothing else.  Can you check yours for signs of it being WebWorks-y...  easiest if you compare with an AIR manifest.mf of course.

[tags07]

I looked at MANIFEST.xml under META-INF folder but did not see anything different between Webworks App and ActionScripts App. I saw a line  in the manifest.xml file "Entry-Point:" which points to an xml file inside the "air" folder.. something like  Entry-Point: app/air/myapp-app.xml

So I compared the two entry point xml...

The WebWorks app  xml have couple of markings that they could check if its Webworks app...for example:

<filename>WebWorksAppTemplate</filename>

<!-- <title>Webworks Application</title> -->

I used the cmdline tools to package the Webworks app. I am not sure if using the GUI would result in something else..

[tags07]

Is the App world Server Time out of wack?? I see my app submission ticket was created at: Feb 18, 2011 20:05:43

And the time here is Feb 18, 2011 15:15 CST  

Wonder what timezone they have set on their server

Update:  Seems like it is London time (GMT)

[peter9477]

It appears to be UTC.  I just submitted a signed update to my app and while it was 16:18 EST here, the ticket shows 21:17:53, which is UTC.

[tags07]

Wow just got approved for this offer...Thank you RIM you made my day  

Now i can test the BBM and bluetooth communication between BB smartphone and the Playbook.

[JRab]

ah very cool tags! congrats!

[billfoust]

Grats Tags. I was trying for it, but sadly I never even got to submit an app for it. My chosen app just didn't pan out.

[tags07]

Thankyou billfoust, JRab... I wasn't even hoping for it considering they shorted the offer date(initially was till March 31st) but if you go to DevZone its already closed.

@billfoust: You should have submitted something..doesnt have to be complicated. Oh well..am sure RIM will have more offers for developers...they really need good developers to back them to be winners in the marketplace. Little incentives like these does serve as motivation..atleast they have got me hooked :-)