bar-descriptor for Blackberry 10.3 warnings

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• bar - descriptor.xml: which category for app use?

  Hi @all,

  I'm developing an application of battery. In the file of the bar - descriptor.xml I choose as single category 'media' and 'games '. Do I have to select 'Media' or let him no classified?

  Thank you very much!

  Peter

  I don't think it's really important, but I would not leave classified

• Bar-descriptor versionLabel

  Hello!

  In the bar - descriptor.xml I see lines:

  But if I what I error uncomment:

  

  So my questions:

  1. How can I use versionLabel element?

  2. how to add a script of pre-build for the development of ?

  I can easily add scripts to compile in xCode for iOS and Android Studio project... but I can't find some like this in Momentics IDE

  Can someone help me?

  I see what you mean.  However, here are a few warnings, no errors and the construction should not fail if they are present.  I reported it to the BlackBerry Momentics development team.

• Retrieves the version number of bar - descriptor.xml programmatically

  Is there a way to extract a version number, and other information of bar - descriptor.xml file similar to how's done it in the Android world via getPackageInfo() in PackageManager?

  It would be a convenient way to play around these values in your code.

  Thank you

  There are various APIs of the platform that you can use for example the PackageInfo

  http://developer.BlackBerry.com/Cascades/reference/bb__packageinfo.html

  ApplicationInfo or,

  http://developer.BlackBerry.com/Cascades/reference/bb__applicationinfo.html

• The file of the bar - descriptor.xml (and make the application of command line)

  I made a game with air and it is online for sale on Android and iOS. It is somewhat popular and I thought to put up on Blackberry for quite awhile now and with the Port of soon-to-start-A-Thon, this seems to be a great time to finally make it.

  BlackBerry is not very common that here where I live in Sweden, however it still looks like an interesting with a potential platform if I want to get the trip. Unfortunately I don't own a camera myself so I'll use the Simulator. With some graphic problems with the simulator when running in mode BB10DevAlpha (icons does not appear right) and the Simulator is very slow when running in mode BB10DevAlphaSafe (chart appears on the right, but it seems that updating them requires more CPU my computer are available).

  The game is built using nothing other than Adobe Flash Professional CS6 and a bunch of command line tools to build the package and sign. I've only got an old computer with Windows XP now since the death of my main PC, all at the time and since the Port-A-Thon is just a few days I do with what I got.

  Firstly I understand that only AIR 3.1 is supported by Blackberry 10, so I use the old AIR SDK 3.1 to create a SWF (flash) file.

  What I really need to do should be used in the exported SWF file of the game, then use the command line tools provided by RIM to build the package, right?

  Except that I did not count on bar - descriptor.xml to be so difficult to understand.

  I was brought to the documentation here: https://developer.blackberry.com/air/documentation/bb10/bar-descriptor_config_file.html

  It says Adobe AIR at the top, the platform selected is Blackberry 10 and the title says "bar-descriptor configuration file", so it must be in the right place!

  I start by trying the 'bar-descriptor configuration example file"on this page:

  ===========================================================

  
  
    
        None
        fake
    
   
    
     Name of the author
   
    
     gXXXxXXx ##XxXxXxxxXxXX #xxx
   
    
     Core.Games
   
    
     Icon.PNG
   
    
     HelloWorld - splash.png
   
    
     read_geolocation
     use_camera
   
    
     1
  

  ===========================================================

  Of course during the test I replaced a few things in the example above with the correct filenames for images etc, I just copied the example of right - off this time to you guys show what I mean.

  Firstly, I extract "blackberry-tablets-sdk - 3.0.0" in a folder on the disc, then I make sure as a full path to the "bin" in the SDK folder inside the path on the OS environment variable.

  Then I read on "Applications of Test using the command line": https://developer.blackberry.com/air/documentation/bb10/testing_your_application_cmd_ms_2010851_11.h...

  Now I run:

  BlackBerry - airpackager.bat - package installApp - blackberry-myappname - new.bar - launchApp myappname-blackberry-bar - descriptor.xml myappname.swf myappnameicon86.png bg splashscreen1024.png - device 192.168.8.128

  Note that "bg" is a folder with 500 images that must be accessible from the app. I hope that I can just add the folder like this and not type a path to each image file...

  What I get (in lib\adt.jar via the bat file):

  error 101: Namespace is missing
  Error: Validation of the AIR is not

  Okay, so the example did not straight on the box.

  Now, I've read all paragraphs in the first URL I linked above ("the bar-descriptor configuration file"). I start my own XML file and make sure to include everything that is marked as "necessary". That's what I'm left with:

  ===========================================================

  
  
      MyCompany
      
          
          com.mydomain.myappname
          My App name
          3.0.0
          
              splashscreen1024.PNG
          
          1.5.0
      
      run_native
      
          application
          
              bb.action.VIEW
              application/octet-stream
          
      
  

  ===========================================================

  I have no idea of what concerns the block whole call target, but it took, so he must be there.

  Now I launch (notice that myappnameicon86.png is gone since no icon is mentioned in the above XML code, it is not mandatory):

  BlackBerry - airpackager.bat - package installApp - blackberry-myappname - new.bar - launchApp myappname-blackberry-bar - descriptor.xml myappname.swf bg splashscreen1024.png - device 192.168.8.128

  Yet once, I get:

  error 101: Namespace is missing
  Error: Validation of the AIR is not

  Frustrated I get autour on the forums for answers, because the official documentation is nowhere getting me.

  I'm left with this:

  ===========================================================

  
  http://ns.Adobe.com/air/application/3.1">
      com.mydomain.myappname
      1.5.0
      
      My App name
      
      My App name
      
      
          myappname.swf
          standard
          fake
          true
          true
          landscape
          GPU
          fake
      
      
          myappnameicon36.PNG
          myappnameicon48.PNG
          myappnameicon72.PNG
      
      fake
      fake
      
          qnx.fuse.ui.skins.QNXDevice
          qnx.fuse.ui.skins.QNXNetwork
          qnx.fuse.ui.skins.QNXSensors
          qnx.fuse.ui.skins.QNXSkins
      
  

  ===========================================================

  Looks like the XML code that I use when I build for Android.

  First of all it doesn't have the tag root of qnx, but also nothing of the icons are of the required size (86 x 86). The tag required splashscreens and invoke target is also absent, to name a few. No idea of what the entire block of 'extensions' really do.

  Surely, this does not work:

  BlackBerry - airpackager.bat - package installApp - blackberry-myappname - new.bar - launchApp myappname-blackberry-bar - descriptor.xml myappname.swf QNXDevice.ane QNXNetwork.ane QNXSensors.ane QNXSkins.ane myappnameicon36.png myappnameicon48.png myappnameicon72.png bg-device 192.168.8.128

  Success in building the package BAR to my infinite surprise!

  He even managed to install on the Simulator. An icon for the game. However when it auto-couru the app went into landscape, thought for a second and then crashed (or you leave?) without a message.

  Perhaps because the required qnx tag was missing in the XML?
  Perhaps because images in the bg file could not be loaded?
  Perhaps because he had no permission to keep screen from dimming?

  I have no idea. I tried to add XML to qnx at the address previous to the bar - descriptor.xml, I thought that maybe he needed both the qnx block for when you run the application and the application block for when packaging. But now, he has complained of something like XML is not not clean ("' fatal error: markup in the document following the root element must be well-formed." ").

  So he came to it, I have to ask for help if I ever make the deadline of the Port-A-Thon.

  (1) how am I supposed to write the bar - descriptor.xml?
  (2) what command line starting by "blackberry - airpackager.bat" is OK to use?
  (3) all I have to do is build the SWF using Adobe Flash Professional CS6 and then pack it using the Blackberry SDK, right?

  First of all, there are two xml files that you need.

  One is called the manifesto, is to AIR and is called yourappname- app.xml. It is identical to the ones you use for Android and IOS, though some elements will be ignored. It's one you need to switch on the command line, and is probably causing the 'Namespace' missing error message. A file manifest a minimum is:

  
  http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/3.1">
  
      com.example.appname
      My Fabulous Game
      1.0.0
  
      FileNameOfYourSwfWithoutExtension
      YourCompanyName
      
          [This value will be overwritten by Flash Builder in the output app.xml]
          true
          false
          none
          cpu
          false
      
  
  

  Replace the text in red with your own stuff.

  The second xml file is called to the bar of descriptor. It is for App World and the installation process and is called bar - descriptor.xml. It contains information about signing code, icon, permissions etc. A simple bar - descriptor.xml is:

  
  
     
        none
        true
        landscape
        false
        cpu
     
  
     
     your-name-on-certificate
     your-id-on-certificate
  
     core.games
  
     
     1
  
     
     
        icon86x86.png
     
     splash-landscape.png
  
     
     2.1.0.1314
  
     
     access_shared
     access_internet
     play_audio
     set_audio_volume
  
  

  Make sure that you at least change the red dots.

• How the packet data / * ($HOME /) files by using the bar - descriptor.xml

  Hi, using sdk native c / c ++ with playbook Simulator 1.0

  I want to distribute with my application some data files that likely should fall under the ' data /' ($HOME?)

  folder.

  (I've written / will update them sometimes, so app/native/does not appropriate I suppose.)

  in the bar - descriptor.xml, I tried adding them as an 'active '.

  who drops their bottom right in app/native / *.

  so I change the XML .bar to try to get them grounded in data.

  Here's what I found:

  by train: data/filename landed the file in app/native/data/filename

  try:... /... / Data/filename received the error

  by train: / data/filename received the error (hoping to slash leader was compared to the sandbox)

  I even on a lark tried: $HOME/filename, who literally created file app/native / $HOME!

  so he tried a ${HOME} with the curlies. I got an error saying unable to resolve the path variable.

  How can I get the data files in the folder/data ($HOME) using the .bar packaging?

  You cannot package the file into the data, you copy your files at startup, if they don't not exist your app/native/data for example

• How to publish a new version of an app for BlackBerry 10

  I had my application for BBOS5-7, and now I've built for BlackBerry 10.

  Should I publish it as an updated version or a new application?

  If I keep the same application but this release as an update, how can I post a screenshot for both applications? I want to keep both versions for the two operating systems in the world of BlackBerry.

  He also tells me that I have a different Package ID when I download the file BAR. What is the Package ID?

  If the two versions of your app do exactly the same thing, I would say just as a new version. Which makes it easier for yourself if you want to update something later.

  If you want to add screenshots for the different versions, you can modify your application. Press the pencil in the provider portal, click on the tab called "Graphics". On the page that opens then you will have the choice between "Default", "BlackBerry OS 7 and earlier ', 'Phone BlackBerry smart, 10' and 'BlackBerry PlayBook. In these sections, you can add the graphics exactly where you want them to be. I think that's what you wanted?

  On the package ID, I find the explanation in this post the best to explain it: http://devblog.blackberry.com/2012/03/package-id-rejected-by-app-world/

  Keep us informed of what you ultimately choose as your option. I'm curious :-)

• What is the file *.so in bar - descriptor.xml

  Hello

  in the bar - descriptor.xml to assets, that I find under build paths of target configurations for the debugging of the device, the device profile etc. For the configuration of the path the target name of the application, for example, in the notebook-app the target path is portable.

  Only for the configration of device-release, it is notebook.so.

  Can some explain to me why there is the suffix .so?

  I searched the web but can't find an explanation to this day.

  .so is a library.

  For a Release version that the main application is packaged as a library, it has been introduced with 10.1 (?) and gave a performance gain important that all qt libraries are compiled into a single.

• Access to the bar - descriptor.xml within the app

  Is it possible to get the properties of the bar - descriptor.xml? Particularly interested in the app id to understand app whenever it is a free or paid application version

  There are PackageInfo and ApplicationInfo classes that contain this information:

  http://developer.BlackBerry.com/Cascades/reference/bb__packageinfo.html

  http://developer.BlackBerry.com/Cascades/reference/bb__applicationinfo.html

  To extract the appId:

  #include ...
  
  bb::PackageInfo pi;
  QString appId = pi.name();
  

  Add LIBS +=-lbb in the .pro file

  You can also analyze the file manually, these threads contain more information on how to locate it:

  http://supportforums.BlackBerry.com/T5/native-development/extract-version-number-from-bar-descriptor...

  http://supportforums.BlackBerry.com/T5/native-development/APIs-to-access-bar-descriptor-XML/m-p/1737...

• bar - descriptor.xml abnormal when it opens

  Hi all

  When I open the bar - descriptor.xml, it just show the contents of the xml file.

  It should display the sections 'Problems' and 'Actions and related settings. But now it shows just the following content:

  
  
  http://www.QNX.com/schemas/application/1.0">

  Does anyone know how to solve?

  Thank you.

  brad_qqq

  @DrShavargo-Thanks for your help. And I find the solution.

  Has tabs at the bottom of the window opening of bar - descriptor.xml, there. :

  General, Application, assets, location and Source.See the pic below:

  

• Make background Transparent on AIR Flash CS5 for BlackBerry Tablet Simulator Application

  Hello

  I tried to find a way make the background Transparent on the Flash CS5 for BlackBerry Tablet Simulator AIR Application and I think it has to do with my *-app.xml file.  I saw another forum mention adding the tag and the parameter 'true '.  I put it inside my tags and my .bar file would not always compile using the command line package.  As soon as I remove the label of , I can compile the .bar file and view it in the simulator of the tablet.  Does anyone have advice?

  You must assign the value true in the file of your blackberry - tablet.xml, no not your - app.xml file.

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     Due to the Java-based development system and inability to build C/C++ apps, the full Firefox browser will not be available on the Blackberry OS. However, a future version of Firefox Home may be available for Blackberry.
  

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