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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?
Sharing a file on the SD Card can be done.
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......Also can you run Android Launchers with the new runtime? The blackberry engineers have really outdone themselves this time. Good stuff..
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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you will be able to invoke a android app from native i the future i think
Thanks for all the responses :)
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.
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
Try this path instead: /sdcard/external_sd/test
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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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I am running 10.2.1 beta :)
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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Awesome. Hopefully there is some documentation on that, haven't been able to find any yet..
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.