March 2008

Mac/BlackBerry SDK

The BlackBerry is a very popular mobile communications device. Official Mac support from Research in Motion is limited to providing the PocketMac utility as a free download. With no official SDK the Mac/BlackBerry ecosystem has seen very little activity.

ZBlackBerry is a suite of code that implements the BlackBerry USB communications protocol in a generic fashion. A few hundred lines of code let Macs use that protocol. A few hundred more allow multiple Mac applications to talk to a single BlackBerry simultaneously, something that has not been possible till now.

ZBlackBerry can also make a BlackBerry connected to a PC accessible via the same API as is used when it's connected directly to a Mac. This lets Mac application developers run their BlackBerry application under the Windows-based debugger and still have it communicate with their Mac application. This is a crucial capability when writing anything more than the most trivial application.

ZBlackBerry is part of ZooLib, our open source C++ library.

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