DeanLogic

The BlackBerry PlayBook was officially launched on April 19th.  I wasn’t expecting too much from my little Meetup Search application, because I don’t consider it done.  The API wasn’t a full release yet and I sort of rushed to finish it in time for the free PlayBook giveaway.  Now that the API 1.0.1 version has been released, I will go back and clean up my application.  I am still waiting for my free PlayBook, which was supposed to arrive to developers “around the time the device is available in the area”, which was on the 19th.  Rumor has it, we’ll all get them today on the 22nd.

Like I said, I didn’t expect a ton of downloads on the first day, of course analysts didn’t expect 50,000 in sales and pre-orders either.  So, I am glad to see that some people downloaded my free application.  Currently there isn’t a way to get a feed from the download page, so I guess I’ll have to export the graph on a regular basis.

Today I made my Meetup Search available on the BlackBerry App World.  It is really rough right now and I am very eager to try it out on the BlackBerry PlayBook.  And why do I say I am “eager”, well it is because I will be getting a free PlayBook!  After going through the struggles of trying to create an application and getting the software, I got my app in before the deadline and now it is signed and ready for download.  And because it was in before the deadline and accepted, I qualified for the free PlayBook offer.  Rumors has it, that they will be shipping tomorrow, which would be awesome!

Where do I go from here?  Well, I would like to clean up the Meetup Search:

• Adjust item layouts and fonts to make sure they work well on the device
• Add GPS location search option : get the GPS latitude and longitude location and use that instead of zip.  “Meetups near me”
• Add City Upcoming Events : The City Meetup pages is a nice feature that shows upcoming events, this might be useful
• Add Map of Meetups search option :  show a map and have Meetups pop up on the map based on search options

I will probably try to add as many search possibilities as possible from the Meetup API and try to keep it up to date.  After that, I need to get OAuth working and start developing the Meetup user and Organizer applications.  In the mean time, I still have a movie to finish editing.