[John Davis]

Hi, there were a few articles back in January 2013 about the possibility of the MobiOne platform supporting Blackberry. Has there been any further progress on this issue?

[Brandon]

I think the Windows phone will get support before Blackberry. That is if Blackberry can survive, I released one app for the Playbook, but have since stopped targeting it as the user base just isn’t worth it .

[John Davis]

Hi, thank you for your reply.

On another matter I posted another message and wondered whether you could possibly post a solution by giving me an example of how I could do this via MobiOne platform? I’m currently using the MobiOne trial version and if I can solve this issue I would have no hesitation in purchasing the platform.

I would like to add the following to the forum message:

The Web Service I want to connect too is written in .NET C#.
I want to take the GPS co-ordinates from the Mobile phone and pass the Long/Lat values to this .NET web service (.asmx)

Alternatively, I pass the Long/Lat values as a query string with parameters, e.g. web address?Long=51.3535&Lat=-0.35434 etc.

The forum message link is http://www.genuitec.com/support-genuitec/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=5780

Regards, John

[Brandon]

John
Assuming you are building a native app you can use the Cordova/Phonegap API so you could use it something like this

//Add Device Listener
document.addEventListener(“deviceready”, onDeviceReady, false);
// device APIs are available
//
function onDeviceReady() {
navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(onSuccess, onError);
}

// onSuccess Geolocation
//
function onSuccess(position) {

//something like this to pass to the webservice

“webservice?Long=”+position.coords.latitude+”&Lat=”+position.coords.longitude+”…etc

}

[John Davis]

Thank you for your reply.

I know how to get the GPS locations from a phone. The area that I’m finding difficulty is examples on how to pass that information to a remote Server. There are various ways I can send that information:

• Open a socket (Ip,Port),
• Call a .Net web service (.asmx) which will receive an XML string
• Call a web link passing the Lat/Long as query string parameters.

Thank in advance for any sample code you can provide.

Regards John

[support-octavio]

Hi John,

At this time we have not decided to support blackberry. We plan to revisit the decision after this summer development activities.

[paulD]

Zed’s dead baby, Zeds dead. (Bruce willis in Pulp Fiction)

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