Porting Android app to run on BlackBerry 10 Android runtime - Google Maps

Question

I have an Android app that I want to make available to BlackBerry 10 users by porting for the BB Android Runtime. The only stumbling block is my Android app uses Google Maps AP

Answer 1

The map screen is only a small feature of the app and I'm happy to disable it for BlackBerry users, but is this possible?

You can add android:required="false" to your element, and detect at runtime whether you have the MapActivity class before trying to link to your map. Here is a sample app demonstrating this.

In theory, BB's packager should allow this. Whether it does or not, I cannot say.