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strada
strada

Reputation: 942

Blackberry Mobile Web App Shortcut

I want to provide an option to download blackberry shortcut of my mobile site. As far as I understand I need a link like this:

<a href="desc.jad" type="text/vnd.sun.j2me.app-descriptor">download shortcut</a>

And jad file contains description of a jar file, icon image etc. in plain text. I've never used Blackberry SDK before, so I'd really appreciate it if someone can explain the steps to provide this kind of functionality to users. Do I need to create an application from scratch or is there a a straightforward way to create mobile web app shortcuts?

You can see an example at espn.com mobile site.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 584

Answers (1)

icchanobot
icchanobot

Reputation: 3343

You need to have both a .jad (descriptor) and a .cod (binary) file Put them on you web server in the same folder. Then create the link to point to the .jad file as you have now.

You probably need to set the mime types (this varies depending your web server) OR you can set it in a .htaccess file like this:

AddType text/vnd.sun.j2me.app-descriptor .jad
AddType application/vnd.rim.cod .cod

Also, have you read this guide? http://supportforums.blackberry.com/rim/attachments/rim/Testing_and_Deployment_of_Applications@tkb/117/1/How_to_Deploy_and_Distribute_Applications_V1.pdf

You want to do deploy "Over the Air", on page 17.

It pretty much explains everything I just wrote above.

Upvotes: 2

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