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Is there any way to invoke an application _other than_ the built-in applications? For example, I have an epub reader installed. Can I invoke this from my own application? Is there some way to get a list of installed applications?
I am porting a desktop-style file manager application, and the apparent inability to get any control over which application is launched in response to a specific file type is a bit of a hurdle.
Thanks. Can you provide any more detail? I'm unclear what the invocation framework is :/ I looked at the API functions related to the Navigator, but didn't see anything that seemed relevant. Am I looking in completely the wrong place?
Answering my own question to some extent -- this Invocation Framework seems to be related to Blackberry 10. Is there anything similar available for current production tablets?
It's good not to have to waste a lot more time looking for something that doesn't exist. However, the lack of such a basic facility does seem to represent a significant deficiency in the platform :/
It is a significant deficiency of the platform. It's best for developers to think of the PlayBook, until now, as in many ways an early prototype of the operating system. Many of the things we expected to be present in it, such as this feature, were never added.
It's all about BB10 now. We don't have any date yet (other than "not before the launch of BB10") for when the PlayBook will get upgraded to BB10, but it's only when it does that we'll really be able to say it doesn't have a number of significant deficiencies...
Thanks. I was coming round to that way of thinking myself. It's great that we can run real C apps on the PlayBook -- something that is a nightmare on Android, for example; it's a shame that the rest of the platform doesn't allow this power to be exploited to the full.
