BlackBerry opens her door to Android

Faced with a sharp decline in activity in the market for smartphones, BlackBerry deepens its software strategy.

After concentrating its efforts on its instant messaging service , the Canadian manufacturer returns to the crucial question of openness to Android. A project initiated last year with the integration within the BlackBerry 10 operating system, a runtime engine developed for the mobile OS applications Google .

A year later, the supply volume has fallen, but it remains far behind the App Store ‘to Apple and Google Play Store, which both exceed the million titles. It must be said that the process for submission of applications is quite tedious: Android developers must always perform a manual conversion of apk files to their own bar format…

According to the media site Good e-Reader , present at the last CES in Las Vegas, these constraints could soon be relaxed. BlackBerry have made contact with several development studios to invite them to integrate their productivity tools and entertainment directly into BlackBerry World, without modification, as long as the applications are compatible with smartphones from 4 to 6 inches.

To submit their productions, they simply need to create a new profile and add a description accompanied by screenshots. User side, the download will proceed as if they were native applications. The next update of BlackBerry 10 will also install apk. Directly from the file explorer. A question remains: that of the support phones less than 4 inches. That is to say, several models with a physical keyboard like the Q5 and Q10.

Recall that to create “native” BlackBerry applications, developers have the choice between C / C + +, HTML5 (HTML, JavaScript, CSS), the Flash Platform (Air and ActionScript) and supply QML ( JavaScript + QT). They also have hosted the App Generator tool, for managing the development cycle, until publication.

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