Native Development

[smarkovik]

Hello guys, 

I am android dev who is getting interested in BB dev. 

My app is consisted of two parts: 

1. Java UI written with the standard java code using the android SDK.

2. Shared c/c++ code between all the platforms we use. 

3. precompiled shared libs which are used by the common code (openSSL, Curl, LibZ, SQLCipher, etc)

I am getting kind of lost in all of your documentation, and see that you kind of focus on porting Games, 

is there any documentation considering apps which follow the design path I described?

Could I convert the native libs (I doubt it but I have to ask)

or should (and how should) I recompile my native libs for the new Blackberry platform?

thanks in advance.. 

[BGmot]

I know nothing about Java but your native libs written in C/C++ should be rebuild targeting BB10 device. Should be fairly easy to do. 

[cycletronic]

Many open source C++ libs are already ported, but lots of things will compile without modification anyway.  See here for some: http://blackberry.github.com/  under the "Native Projects" category.

As for the java layer, I'm not sure what your best path is, as I'm primarily a game developer.  You do have the option of Qt (which I use for desktop apps), or Cascades (which is a specialized Qt with a nice visual layout designer) and several other frameworks in various languages.

Hopefully someone else can chime in with a better answer for the Java side of things.

[borceg]

Porting your android app as it is(with native code and java/android specific ui) is not possible. As stated in android docs, apps that use native code are not supported. If it was pure java, you could just add bb nature to your android project and repackage the app.

So, you have few options. Going with pure ndk and inventing new ui for your app with some reuse of your existing c++ code. Your new UI will relly mostly on OpenGL(quite hard to do). Or, you can go with Cascades which provides ui components in same fashion as android plus your existing c++ code.