So awesome to see this go live, thanks Bryan. Looking forward to seeing progress towards this being merged into the Apache repos!
Sent from my BlackBerry Z10 smartphone. From: Bryan Higgins Sent: Saturday, April 6, 2013 6:42 AM To: dev@cordova.apache.org Reply To: dev@cordova.apache.org Subject: BlackBerry BB10 Repos on GitHub Over the last few weeks, we at BlackBerry WebWorks have been working on a prototype for a new version of our SDK based on Cordova. I'm happy to say that we're now able to share our repos publicly! To understand what we've done, you will first need to understand that WebWorks for BB10 is really 3 things: 1. Packager (bbwp) – a set of node scripts to assemble apps from source 2. Framework – handles bootstrap, extension loading, exec calls, events 3. Extensions – all of the APIs. Similar to cordova plugins, but included in the SDK rather than directly in the project. All of this is built on top of the "web platform" - a layer on top of WebKit which exposes device APIs. We plan to document this layer and provide instructions on how to build a web platform app using only the NDK. For those wanting a rich set of APIs, we will provide a Cordova build along with a set of custom plugins for platform features. To get to that world, we need to move some logic from the packager and framework into Cordova. This will really simplify the exec chain and ease plugin development. Old world: Plugin script > cordova.exec > WebWorks extension > webworks.exec > web platform / native New world: Plugin script > cordova.exec > web platform / native All of our repos are up at github.com/blackberry. Here's a quick summary of what we have done so far. https://github.com/blackberry/cordova-blackberry * split out BB10 from BBOS/PlayBook * Re-implemented cordova create, build and run in node, using libs from our packager * Introduced "target" script for managing device and simulator configuration * Started the process of converting core plugins from wrappers to calling web platform directly https://github.com/blackberry/cordova-js * Created blackberry10 as a top level platform * Added some bootstrap, exec and event logic from our Framework * Started the process of removing the wrappers (at which point cordova.exec and webworks.exec are merged and webworks events will go away) https://github.com/blackberry/cordova-plugman * Copy "controller" code (index.js) and native .so files into the project * Implemented our prototype of script injection (wrapping js-modules in cordova.define and generating plugins.json). https://github.com/blackberry/cordova-cli * Minor changes to support splitting out BB10 from BBOS https://github.com/blackberry/cordova-blackberry-plugins (not yet public,) * Plugins for BB10 platform features I know this is a lot of dump on the list at once, but Jeff and I are here to answer any questions or concerns. Now that the repos are live we'd like to start a discussion on getting the code into Apache. We've got a small team here working on this (intros to come) and everyone is excited to start working with the community. Cheers, Bryan --------------------------------------------------------------------- This transmission (including any attachments) may contain confidential information, privileged material (including material protected by the solicitor-client or other applicable privileges), or constitute non-public information. Any use of this information by anyone other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please immediately reply to the sender and delete this information from your system. Use, dissemination, distribution, or reproduction of this transmission by unintended recipients is not authorized and may be unlawful.
