[KatrinaMobCov]

Is there anyway to communicate between the android runtime and the blackberry native. For example, if I want the blackberry native app to launch the android apk. Can blackberry send an intent to the android runtime? Also can they share a file on the SD card?

[serbanescu]

Sharing a file on the SD Card can be done.

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[Fidel Mercado]

......Also can you run Android Launchers with the new runtime? The blackberry engineers have really outdone themselves this time. Good stuff..

[Nemory Studios]

Yes it can. One sample.is invocation framework. There are android apps that have a camera button, it then opens BlackBerry native camera, also sharing to social apps


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[howarmat]

you will be able to invoke a android app from native i the future i think

[KatrinaMobCov]

Thanks for all the responses

[KatrinaMobCov]

I have tried to write /accounts/1000/shared/misc/test and /accounts/1000/removable/sdcard/test from the android runtime All I get is FileNotFoundException. Should I be looking at a different file path? From what I have read the shared should be accessible from other applications, not sure about the sd card. Either way I just need a shared file between the running android apk and the blackberry app.

[KatrinaMobCov]

The other option mentioned by NemOry was the invocation framework. I am not sure if this is possible. How do you declare the android app to be the invocation target. This is supposed to be done by declaring itself as a target in its bar-descriptor.xml file which android obviously does not have. Is there another way you can declare an invocation target in the android app?
https://developer.blackberry.com/nat...nvocation.html

[serbanescu]

I have tried to write /accounts/1000/shared/misc/test and /accounts/1000/removable/sdcard/test from the android runtime All I get is FileNotFoundException. Should I be looking at a different file path? From what I have read the shared should be accessible from other applications, not sure about the sd card. Either way I just need a shared file between the running android apk and the blackberry app.

Try this path instead: /sdcard/external_sd/test

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[serbanescu]

The other option mentioned by NemOry was the invocation framework. I am not sure if this is possible. How do you declare the android app to be the invocation target. This is supposed to be done by declaring itself as a target in its bar-descriptor.xml file which android obviously does not have. Is there another way you can declare an invocation target in the android app?
https://developer.blackberry.com/nat...nvocation.html

I hope I am not mistaken, but this will only be possible in BB 10.2.1

Correction: this is what's coming in BB 10.2.1: "Android applications that register with the share framework in Android will now also appear as share targets on the BlackBerry 10 share menu."

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[KatrinaMobCov]

I am running 10.2.1 beta

[serbanescu]

Correction: this is what's coming in BB 10.2.1: "Android applications that register with the share framework in Android will now also appear as share targets on the BlackBerry 10 share menu."

Source: Release roadmap - Runtime for Android apps - BlackBerry Developer

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[KatrinaMobCov]

Awesome. Hopefully there is some documentation on that, haven't been able to find any yet..

[KatrinaMobCov]

Solved!

To read a file off the sdcard in the Android runtime the file path should be /sdcard/yourfilename.txt. On the Blackberry side that file is located in device:/misc/android/yourfilename.txt

Another solution is the share framework v1 that serbanescu suggested. There is nothing special that has to be done to the Android application. As long as the intent-filter will support android.intent.action.SEND and support the right mimeType for the data, it will show up in the share menu.