Alright, so I'm going to assume you're starting with a CLEAN Android Player installation. If you have any issues with these instructions, delete it and reload it before asking for help or making comments on the procedure.
From a clean slate: 1.) Open Settings->Applications and check the Unknown sources box.
2.) Swipe back one screen and open Settings->Language & Keyboard. You need to open the Android keyboard settings item and uncheck popup on keypress and touch to correct words. Swipe back one screen and then uncheck all the boxes, and then re-check the Android keyboard box. (I know, maybe overkill but this is what I do every time so I included it)
3.) Swipe back to the home screen and close the Android player by swiping from the bottom.
4.) Setup the file structure on the PB. Open your Playbook via it's network sharing feature and browse to "\\PLAYBOOK\media\misc\android" Once there, create two folders if they're not already there, "download" and "apks". Open up the apks folder and copy in the contents of the GApps-PB-rev1.zip file.
5.) Now that the files are all in place and your Android Player is setup properly, open up the browser and open "files:///sdcard/apks/Astro.apk" This will install Astro file manager and make the final parts of the process far easier.
6.) After Astro is installed, swipe back to the applications list and open it. You should be sitting at the "/sdcard" location, but if not, browse to it. Then open the "apks" folder in the list, you should end up at "/sdcard/apks" and you should see the copied APKs in the list.
7.) Install the remaining APKs in numeric order, there should be 7 files total.
8.) After all of the APKs have been installed, swipe back to the applications menu and close the Android player by swiping from the bottom. Close it completely out and count to 10.
9.) Reopen the Android player and setup your google account on the device by going to Settings->Accounts & sync and press "Add account" at the bottom. Enter your google credentials and let it sync up. Give it a few seconds before you press finish setup, there's a lot going on in the background as it sets up your account on the device.
10.) Swipe back to the application list and open Market, you're done!!!
So 10 steps and you should be able to get a working market. Like I've said numerous times, this is for pioneering users only. I won't make a new thread and announce it until I'm confident it works on a consistent basis and probably until I get the newer 2.3.3 market working properly. Now I've got a good template to go from.
And with this, I release the hounds...
GApps-PB-rev1.zip Also grab this file and load it after #7, VendingV1.APK: YouTube.apk
EDIT:
Known issues:
General stability, sometimes you'll get strange crashes.
Something seems to throw downloads off sometimes that causes all downloads to sit at "starting download".
Catagories at the top don't seem to work.
I'm sure lots more that I'll add to the list.
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