{"id":641871,"date":"2013-02-08T17:52:28","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T22:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=322724"},"modified":"2013-02-08T17:52:28","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T22:52:28","slug":"skype-closely-collaborating-with-blackberry-to-make-sure-ported-android-app-runs-well-on-bb10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/641871","title":{"rendered":"Skype \u2018closely collaborating with BlackBerry\u2019 to make sure ported Android app runs well on BB10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/08\/skype-blackberry-10-android-port-322724\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"580\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/bgr-img_00162.jpg?w=650&amp;h=580&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Skype BlackBerry 10 Android\" title=\"BlackBerry World Apps\" \/><\/a><\/center>The bad news for <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/blackberry\">BlackBerry<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=bbry\">BBRY<\/a>) fans: The BlackBerry 10 Skype app is an <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/android\">Android<\/a> port and not a native app. The good news: <a href=\"http:\/\/crackberry.com\/skype-collaborating-blackberry-ensure-app-runs-well-blackberry-10\">Skype has told <em>CrackBerry<\/em><\/a> that it is &#8220;closely collaborating with BlackBerry&#8221; to make sure that the ported app runs smoothly on the new platform. Among other things, Skype says it plans to\u00a0&#8220;open up some of the integration points available to native apps in the OS so that they can also be used by the Skype application&#8221; and thus &#8220;allow Skype users to see notifications, to start the app from the Hub, and to see their Skype contacts in the native phone book.&#8221; Although <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/06\/blackberry-z10-sales-launch-day-record-320782\/\">BlackBerry&#8217;s first BlackBerry 10 device is reportedly off to a hot start so far in terms of sales<\/a>, the company is still <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/01\/30\/blackberry-10-app-market-analysis-312057\/\">finding it hard to get some key apps natively onto its platform<\/a>.\u00a0<em>CrackBerry&#8217;s<\/em> Bla1ze, for one, comments that he&#8217;d &#8220;just rather see Skype go native&#8221; since &#8220;Skype isn&#8217;t hurting for any development money and\u00a0creating a native BlackBerry 10 app isn&#8217;t hard.&#8221;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/5biPwT0HTJk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bad news for BlackBerry (BBRY) fans: The BlackBerry 10 Skype app is an Android port and not a native app. The good news: Skype has told CrackBerry that it is &#8220;closely collaborating with BlackBerry&#8221; to make sure that the ported app runs smoothly on the new platform. Among other things, Skype says it plans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}