Hi I am new to Blackberry 10 application development and I am developing an application that can run as a service in background and start another application at particular interval. I want to know is it possible to create services that can run in background?
Running application or any service in background is currently not supported by BlackBerry 10 sdk.
It will be supported in upcoming sdk release. Check out Headless apps in roadmap
read the documents that describe Android features that are not supported by the BlackBerry Runtime for Android apps on BlackBerry 10. =)
Software Features
No support to run services in the background. Applications can run
services only while the user runs them, either in fullscreen or in
thumbnail mode
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Are there any ways to simulate ionic hybrid apps on Windows 7 without using MacOS or virtual machine such as VMware/virtual box?.
Specifically, I read ionic documents and references and tried to apply sim-ios & sim-deploy on Windows 7. However, on Windows, sim-deploy seems not supported.
and the information I am looking for related to this is pretty much out-dated.
NO..., To simulate a app you need Xcode installed which you cannot on windows, You can get away with browser testing using Chrome built in browsers but that's about it.
I had the same issue when I wanted to Deploy a IOS app on windows
I want to connect an existing PhoneGap application to a newly created mobile service in Azure, but in the dashboard for the service I'm only presented with these three choices for the "Choose A Platform" option:
Windows Store
Windows Phone 8
iOS
Where is Android, HTML/JavaScript, Xamarin and the new PhoneGap option?
I take that you created a new mobile service using the new .NET backend. For now, the quickstart (starter) projects for that platform are only available in the four versions you see there (WinStore C#, WinStore JS, WinPhone 8 C#, iOS Objective-C), and others will be added soon.
However, the backend still supports other platforms (HTML/JS, PhoneGap, Android, Xamarin), it's just that we don't have the starter projects for those in the portal yet. You can take one of the supported ones, download the server project, and create the client project to talk to it.
Again, all supported platforms will get their quickstart projects added soon.
This may be an incredibly stupid question, but I have not gotten a clear answer through google. Will the eclipse Blackberry plugin work for the new Blackberry as well as older versions? I am actually an android developer so this is quite a change for me. Any hint will be appreciated. Thanx
EDIT You can use the BlackBerry Runtime for Android apps to run Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2 (10.2) platform applications on the BlackBerry 10 OS. If you are developing for a previous version of BlackBerry 10 OS, use Android Gingerbread 2.3.3. To use the runtime, you must first repackage your Android applications to BAR file format, which is the compatible file format required for an application to run on the BlackBerry 10 OS.
Got this from here. Does this mean that I should write two apps? One for the old blackberry devices and one for the new one?
I'm not sure that the above is clear, so thought I would restate the position as I understand it:
Android applications, repackaged to run on BlackBerry devices, can be used on BB10 and PlayBook devices only. These can not be run on BBOS devices, i.e. BB 5/6/7.
The later releases of BB10, specifically 10.2+, supports Android applications developed using Jelly Bean 4.2.2.
PlayBook and previous levels of BB10, support Gingerbread 2.3.3.
So for example, my Z10, which is running BB10.1, would only be able to load repackaged Android applications developed using Gingerbread. My Curve, running OS 7.0, can't run any Android applications.
I have been developing a phonegap application (HTML/jQuery) for Android devices and packing it in Phonegap Build.
I have a demand of having a background service that keep sending data to our web services every 1 minute. As far as I heard, it's only possible developing the background service in Java and communicating with the UI somehow.
My background is in .NET, so my question is: Is there another way of doing that apart from Java? Any good tutorial?
If not, Can I still keep using PhoneGap Build to pack the UI and the Background Service? Or do I have to have the whole Phonegap SDK installed in my machine?
You can't do it by Phonegap Build!
You have to install the whole set of tools (eclipse, android sdk and cordova), and then develop the service in Java, adding your HTML assets into the project. So that you'll get able to generate the APK containg Background Service and Webapp.
I want to know using my desktop application can i access Blackberry desktop manager (or) any USB interface programmatically to load(install) a blackberry application into blackberry device? Basically i want to load(install) any blackberry developed application to the device using my desktop application interface.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you.
There is no BB Desctop API to install application:
BlackBerry Desktop Software - 4.1 - Desktop API Reference Guide
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UPDATE
You can send data to device, but to open named channel you will need running application on device side which will register and operate with same-named channel... although there are speculation about "using RIM API calls to compose *.cod file directly in device internal memory." I have no idea how to do this without installing any app on device previously.