Could we get all the android apps onto blackberry playbook?

I'm not sure why this is taking so long :p you just submit the android application (that's right, no changes) to the blackberry playbook app store and voila! It's done! I would really love having gospel library on my playbook.

I agree. It would be nice to have the android apps on the playbook. With the new playbook OS 2.0, hopefully the developers are working on repackaging and porting them to blackberry app world. I am considering side loading them, but may wait a bit.

I agree wholeheartedly that I want to see Gospel Library on the PlayBook. It has been submitted to their AppWorld.

The initial poster hit the nail mostly on the head:
"I'm not sure why this is taking so long :p" well, there's always reasons... little things like approvals.

"you just submit the android application" well, its submitted.

"(that's right, no changes)" other than pulling out all references to Android

"to the blackberry playbook app store and voila! It's done! " ok-- its submitted, its 'under review' so, hopefully soon!

Need this soon don't want to go to the ipad love my playbook.

This is encouraging that Gospel Library has been submitted. Do you whether the other Android apps (Mormon Channel, LDS Tools, LDS Youth, and Ensign) have been submitted as well?

Yes, thank you for updating us that the app has been submitted! It's been a long wait to have the Church apps available for the PlayBook.

Just an FYI with the gospeal library....if you download the epubs of what you want (one at a time except for the standard works, sorry...) from the church website (for some reason the George Albert Smith manual did not download right off the epub page, but I got it from the page dedicated to that manual), then you can open them in a nice little app called Book Reader ($0.99 on AppWorld). It is not perfect, but it has been great to be able to access scriptures and manuals while at church. I am sure that I will want to switch to Gospel Library once they sort out all this stuff, but it works for now. I can't even find working links to sideload any lds apps except ldstools, so this seems to be my only option anyways.

(And I am far from tech savy, so anyone can do this.)

digbads wrote:I agree wholeheartedly that I want to see Gospel Library on the PlayBook. It has been submitted to their AppWorld.

The initial poster hit the nail mostly on the head:
"I'm not sure why this is taking so long :p" well, there's always reasons... little things like approvals.

"you just submit the android application" well, its submitted.

"(that's right, no changes)" other than pulling out all references to Android

"to the blackberry playbook app store and voila! It's done! " ok-- its submitted, its 'under review' so, hopefully soon!

Thank you for this update! Hopefully the approval doesn't take too long.

In the meantime, if anyone needs the APK->BAR files for sideloading, here they are:

The gospel library bar file:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24683109/gl-2.1.4.5-RELEASE.bar

LDS Tools:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24683109/ldstools-1.1.0.5.bar

Those links give me APK files. No BAR files that I can see. Am I missing something??

gregcoad wrote:Those links give me APK files. No BAR files that I can see. Am I missing something??

That's strange. I'm not sure why the links would give you APK files. They are definitely BAR files as you can see from the extension.

sckellis wrote:That's strange. I'm not sure why the links would give you APK files. They are definitely BAR files as you can see from the extension.

I have heard of this using your server.... it tends to be a Internet explorer problem, try Firefox or chrome as they both worked fine for me...

sckellis wrote:Thank you for this update! Hopefully the approval doesn't take too long.

In the meantime, if anyone needs the APK->BAR files for sideloading, here they are:

The gospel library bar file:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24683109/gl-2.1.4.5-RELEASE.bar

LDS Tools:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24683109/ldstools-1.1.0.5.bar

Re: remember to Download using Mozilla or chrome... IE does not work well with dropbox... and thank you so much for posting these... I have been trying for 3 weeks to get a hold of the gospel library. can we get a link to this on the wiki for putting Gospel Library on Playbook. It mentions how to sideload, but I did not see any files to do such with.

Thanks
R

As a heads up, the Gospel Library app is now available for the Playbook. I downloaded it this morning and it seems to be functioning well.

The 1.1.0.5 version of LDS Tools is working fine using this method. However, I tried to convert v1.2.2.1 of LDS Tools and it would not run on the Playbook. Is there a newer version floating around out there that will convert and work on the Playbook? If someone has an apk I can convert it.

Has anyone ported the Ensign App for PlayBook? I am comfortable with sideloading so I am not looking for the official "Appworld version", just the .bar file. I have been using Gospel Library and LDS Tools on my PlayBook (sideloaded) for at least the past 8 months with no issues. Would love to get the Ensign App too.

Just installed the bar files. Thanks a lot!!

Is it possible to get newer .bar files of both LDS tool and Gospel Library? I just moved to the Blackberry Z10 and the church apps are not listed in the app world for the 10 OS. I have sideloaded the files listed here and they work fine but are far behind the iphone and android. I am happy to sideload them again with newer ones so I can have the newer features.

In the event that this will not happen quickly does the church mind if I convert them from the newer Android files and use those in the meantime?

Thank you for these and looking forward to a reply!

Did anyone get a chance to convert the newer Android versions of these apps?

jhdabney wrote:Did anyone get a chance to convert the newer Android versions of these apps?

I have not gotten the newest lds tools to work, but I have the .bar file for the gospel library version 2.5.0.24 (current as of 8/30/2013). It runs fine on blackberry os 10.2. I'm not sure how it will do on 10.1 as 10.1 has an older android runtime, but I imagine it will.

Here it is....
https://app.box.com/s/50m18lp045gbe4tasjpx

I have side loaded Gospel Library 2.5.0.9 onto my T-mobile Z10 running the OS 10.1.0.4200.
It works just fine. It's a tad bit glitchy when it is opening up, and sometimes fails to open (only 10% of the time).
I'm really wanting the LDS Tools to work. I've tried side loading all the versions available, and even ran a leaked 10.2 OS for a week to try and get it to work, but no dice. Does anyone know how to take an apk and make it a usable bar file? Better than starting from scratch, I recon.