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I'm porting an app from Android to Blackberry.

I've found some limitations...

I'm using Google Maps, but as I read, we can use an WebView with Google Maps, as pointed here to overcome this.

-Questions related: Q1, Q2

Sharing

I also share image and text on Android to Facebook, Twitter and Email using the ShareActionProvider (http://developer.android.com/training/sharing/shareaction.html).

Is it possible for an Android App ported to BlackBerry 10 to use something to replace this?

I was thinking about using Facebook SDK and Twitter SDK to replaced Share to those two, but what about Email?

I've read here that ACTION_SEND is also unavailable. So how can we send an email for example from an app?

Camera

Also is it possible to take a picture or access the gallery to get one? I did not found anything about this.

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    Before you start working too much on this, look at the Android Roadmap: http://developer.blackberry.com/android/tools/roadmap/. There is a lot happening in 10.2.1, including MapView, and from what I have heard, it is not too far away. So rather than work hard on swapping things, I would see what 10.2.1 offers you. Look here too: http://developer.blackberry.com/android/apisupport/unsupported_api_jellybean_intents.html – Peter Strange Jan 20 '14 at 14:37
  • Thanks for the very useful tip. I've seen they are porting the Google Maps v1, I'm using the v2 :-\ – neteinstein Jan 20 '14 at 14:47

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I've read here that ACTION_SEND is also unavailable. So how can we send an email for example from an app?

The linked page said that "Android applications cannot provide system-wide services to the rest of the device" for those Intents. This is if your app want to be a provider for those actions.

If I understand you correctly, you wanted instead to use that Intent to send out something from your app, right? I believe it should be supported, but I haven't tried it myself.

Also is it possible to take a picture or access the gallery to get one? I did not found anything about this.

The camera is supported quite well from what I have a chance to test out.

Using MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE and accessing the Android Camera API directly works fine for me.

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