In a
bid to tap out of the success of Android and retain their dwindling customer
base, Blackberry has announced that it’s latest OS update 10.2 will be able to
run apps made for Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, UberGizmo reports.
This means that the current BlackBerry 10 devices will all be
able to run apps compatible with Android Jelly Bean. The first BlackBerry device to bring support for Android apps
was the PlayBook tablet, which could run apps developed for Android 2.3.3.
These apps have to be specially packaged for the Canadian
manufacturer’s platform, but its a lot easier for developers to repackage their
apps rather than develop one from the ground up, since that takes a lot of time
and resources.
BlackBerry has released new versions of the SDK and Eclipse
plugin, as well as 10.2 beta firmware version for developers to test their apps
on. It was initially believed that support for Ice Cream Sandwich apps will be
added in the next major OS update, some even though that BlackBerry would even
totally phase out support for Android apps.
Instead they’ve upped it to Jelly Bean. BlackBerry 10.2 OS Alpha
was recently leaked, it is expected that the public release of this update is
going to take place in the near future.
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