so i know read here you shelved plans for a blackberry app, which makes sense i suppose. but they’ve changed up their platform vision.

also, the playbook is an excellent device that i would love to see the torque app on.

any plans for a playbook app? should be relatively easy to convert to playbook app given their new development tools, no?

Here, here! Torque on Blackberry Playbook

PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESE!!!

I have Torque (paid version) on my android phone, but the blackberry will be permanently fitted in the car…you know – nav, music and ODBII, but wait, we are missing the ODBII!!

On a serious note, it seems that RIM has gone to great lengths to help developers port their android apps to blackberry. I know these things take time and another platform to support, but please do it soon……:)

Hi!

It depends on the playbooks android player supporting bluetooth (which is currently does not do)

However I’ve been talking to one person on the RIM Alliances team and apparently this may be changing in the new year. Until then though my hands are tied. (I have a playbook on my desk waiting for this)

Hi

I now have the Z10 phone and a playbook – Torque is on there, and it /sort/ of recognises bluetooth, but I’m not 100% there yet as there appears to be a bit of strangeness with how bluetooth is working (for some reason the device isn’t listed even though Torque can ‘see’ some form of bluetooth

Still no definitive ‘yes’ yet – I will have more this weekend with a bit of luck.

EDIT:

Seems that someone at BB was fibbing when they were telling me to watch for bluetooth support. It’s still not part of the android player in a usable form, so unfortunately at the moment Bluetooth adapters will not function.

Source: http://developer.blackberry.com/android/apisupport/unsupportedapi_playbook_hardware_features.html

I’m a bit annoyed at this, especially considering I also have a playbook and Z10 device. I am still investigating options.

Again it’s down to API support(which isn’t there yet)

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Again it’s down to API support(which isn’t there yet)

This is not entirely true.

There are two ways of getting Torque on the new BlackBerry devices.

1) use the BlackBerry Android Player which allows you to run Android 2.3 compatible apps within the BlackBerry environment. You just repackage your APK which takes about 30 seconds and away you go. This Android Player does indeed not support Blue tooth connections.

2) take your Android code and modify it using one of the numerous programing platforms that BlackBerry supports such as Adobe Air, Cascades, C++, etc. I am told that given the right tools most Android programmers have been able to convert their apps within one day. BlackBerry developer support is very eager to help to get as many native BlackBerry apps as possible. In this case your code would have access to Blue tooth.

If you contact the BlackBerry team headed up by Alec Saunders @asaunders they can get you started.

They even have a program where your app is guaranteed to earn 000. I’d say 1 or 2 days work for 000 is worth your time and effort. I know I would be first in line to purchase your app on my BlackBerry Z10.

Hi!

I have some good news on this – hopefully will have more information in the next couple of hours.

Regards,

Ian

Good news everybody!

I have Torque connecting to an OBD adapter on the Z10 and Q10 – this means that I can finally move forward with releasing it on the blackberry store

– There’s a few things to tidy up first – the front screen display is a bit ‘off’ on the Q10 and a few other ‘guiding’ options to be added for users using blackberry.

Please do not go and buy OBD2 adapters in anticipation just yet as you may end up getting something that doesn’t work – there’s more on this later once I’ve got things released on the blackberry store and I will be updating the wiki as well with all the information you need. Unless you wait until blackberry updates the android player to version 4 (there’s no release date for them doing that yet)

(as a side note, I was amazed the track recorder plugin kind of worked as well on the Q10 as well)

Work for this should take about a week tops then it’s up to the blackberry store to go through their approval process (it’s also going to be a bit close to the due-date for my better half, so I may go quiet for a week or two whilst I learn a few new things in life!)

Most of the work required is now completed, and I’m finally approved as a ‘paid’ vendor on the blackberry portal so this won’t be long now

Quick poll question though – how many z10/q10 users know about the ‘back’ swipe that the android player uses?

Hi

It’s almost ready to upload – just got to sort out a few things with proguard first before I can send it to the market (the hard work is done, just the fiddly update) – yes the little one put a spanner in the works as far as time is concerned – I’m starting to find my feet again so things will return to normal soon