launched the highly anticipated BlackBerry beta version of its BlackBerry Runtime for Android Apps and Plug-in development tools for Android, the Android Development Tools for BlackBerry 10.2. As announced during the BlackBerry Jam Americas last May this new version of the runtime to run applications designed for the Android platform 4.2.2 Jelly Bean (10.2 beta) on the BlackBerry OS 10 and the BlackBerry Tablet OS. Although as with any beta, there are known issues, which are described in the release notes of each runtime, these are available for download from the BlackBerry developer page
One of the biggest complaints to the Android runtime on the BlackBerry 10 and BlackBerry PlayBook this is because still using an old version of Android, 2.3.3 Gingerbread, which was released originally in December 2010, making many of the latest applications are incompatible with BlackBerry devices.
During the month of February, during the BlackBerry Jam Europe , the black mulberry company announced it would update its Android runtime to provide support for Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. Now the update has been released in beta, but with support for the latest version of Android 4.2 Jelly Bean is and can downloaded from the developer page .
BlackBerry class=”c2″> promises that all features that were available in the version of Gingerbread will remain supported, but additional features specific Jelly Bean also be added. This includes fragments, fragments embedded frame animation and hardware acceleration, as well as the applications built on HTML5, Adobe Air, or C + +.
not know it’s an excerpt: A Fragment represents a behavior or user interface portion of an activity. Which can be combined into a single activity to build a user interface and reused several panels that fragment in multiple activities. A fragment has its own lifecycle, receives its own input events, and you can add or remove while the activity is running.
Good news …
This is excellent news for everyone, for developers looking to port their applications and Android users looking to make use of them on their devices. With this update, the best Android apps may carry and will improve the overall user experience for these applications.
However, although applications can be ported and executed on a BlackBerry device user experience will not be the same as that of a native Android device, due to the architecture of BlackBerry 10. For example, you can use widgets, and notifications as running applications on the BlackBerry platform Hub.
As previously mentioned, for the moment this is only the first beta, BlackBerry still has not specified how many more betas are scheduled or when the Gold version will be available, which include support for Jelly Bean the device simulator BlackBerry 10.2, only vaguely mentioned “later.”
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