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RIM Confirms Android Apps Will Run On Playbook, Through Intermediate Players

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 24, 2011 @04:38PM from the when-fruit-meets-robot-companion dept.

angry tapir writes "Research In Motion has announced that users of its PlayBook tablet will be able to run Android and Java applications. The PlayBook, which becomes available on April 19, will have two optional 'app players' that will provide run-time environments for BlackBerry Java apps and Android 2.3 apps. The players will let users download BlackBerry Java Apps and Android Apps from BlackBerry App World."

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Re:Quality by TD-Linux · 2011-03-24 17:00 · Score: 5, Informative

No, when they support the 2.3 API (revision 10), they also support all API versions below that. In fact, Google encourages developers to target the lowest possible API level to support needed features, to maximize compatibility.