BlackBerry are more than aware of the massive app gap that BlackBerry 10 has, so they have been enhancing the overall compatibility of the Android runtime and added support for many highly requested features and APIs.
The idea is that if they cant get native BlackBerry apps developed, then they will try and improve the Android experience for users who want to run Android apps on their BlackBerry 10 devices.
The Android 4.3 runtime is now available to developers as part of the BlackBerry 10.3 SDK beta. The new runtime will offer better compatibility for existing Android applications, as well as bring some new APIs.
What’s New:
- Accounts Support: Android applications that use authentication for user login can now be set up and managed from within the BlackBerry 10 accounts settings.
- Bluetooth LE: Applications that use Bluetooth Low Energy from Android API level 18 are now supported.
- NFC: Android applications that integrate with NFC are supported. NFC support includes reading and writing tags, as well as sharing data between NFC enabled devices.
- Share Framework v2: The previous release of the runtime enabled Android applications that register with the share framework in Android to appear as share targets on the BlackBerry 10 share menu. In this release, Android applications can now share to BlackBerry 10 share menu targets.
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