Android Blackberry Repackager

Solar2D Android
#1

Hello,

Has anyone tried running an APK through the Blackberry Repackager ?

https://developer.blackberry.com/android/tools/

Blackberry still accounts for 49% of ‘smartphone’ marketshare in my country. Seems like a relatively easy way to get stuff out for Blackberry OS10 devices.

Obviously we’d need to adjust screen size etc. on the Corona / Lua side of things.

If it doesn’t work and something more needs to happen at build time in Corona, who knows, maybe Corona could support this relatively easily ?

Your thoughts ?

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#2

The repackager only lets you get your Android app running on the BlackBerry Playbook and future BlackBerry 10 phones (not yet released). Unfortunately, Android apps produced by Corona cannot be repackaged as they make use of the Android Native Development Kit. See here:

http://developer.anscamobile.com/forum/2012/02/03/rim-giving-free-playbooks-submitting-android-apps

I put in a request for this but got no official reply:

http://developer.anscamobile.com/forum/2012/03/29/support-blackberry-playbook

Looks like Ansca has no immediate plans to support BlackBerry. It would be nice if Ansca staff could comment one way or the other but so far they have declined to comment at all on this matter.
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#3

Hey there,

We don’t always have things to say in response to feature requests, often because we really need to assess them before we can give any kind of response - but we do pay close attention.

Official answer: You were correct in your assumption. We do not have any immediate plans to support BlackBerry. [import]uid: 52491 topic_id: 27193 reply_id: 110455[/import]

#4

Thanks for the reply. But wouldn’t this be an easy win for Corona? If you look at the threads above, the problems getting Android apps to run on PlayBook comes down to two missing features which look like they could be worked around (one seems to be trying to find the device resolution – easy to hardwire in if you prepare a special “PlayBook” build option). Or I might be completely wrong and it would take lots of effort – thoughts welcome! In the past Corona has been quick to embrace new platforms like Nook. [import]uid: 84768 topic_id: 27193 reply_id: 112352[/import]

#5

Not going to happen. Corona is completely dependent on native code. Particularly the Lua script interpreter and audio decoders.

Edit: I’m talking about porting Android APKs to Blackberry is not going to happen. Corona for Android is dependent on the NDK that Blackberry does not have a solution for yet. The only other way for us to do this is to code a version of Corona built with the Blackberry SDKs, but there has been very little demand for that. [import]uid: 32256 topic_id: 27193 reply_id: 112405[/import]