Introduction

This repository contains code to use the BlackBerry Spark Communications Services SDK from an Apache Cordova environment. The supported platforms are Android and iOS. It has been verified to work in Cordova 8.0 and 9.0.

This code provides a layer on top of the Spark Communications SDK. The SDK itself must be obtained separately.

Obtaining the SDK

The SDK may be obtained from here.

After downloading the SDK, it needs to be placed in the appropriate location.

• Android

If developing for android, the entire downloaded archive should be placed in BBMEnterprise/src/android.

• iOS

If developing for iOS, the entire downloaded archive should be placed in BBMEnterprise/src/iOS.

These steps must be completed prior to installing the plugin.

Directory layout

• BBMEnterprise

  This directory contains the code that directly interfaces with the BlackBerry Spark Communications Services SDK for mobile. This directory contains the interface code to use these SDKs in a Cordova environment. It is a Cordova plugin, and may be installed using the Cordova tools.

  By default, messages can be pushed to your application with Firebase Cloud Messaging. This requires a file called google-services.json, which you must obtain from the Firebase web portal (https://firebase.google.com) and placed in platforms/android/app of your application.

• support

  This directory contains support code that is not needed to use the BlackBerry Spark Communications Services SDK in a Cordova application, but which may be useful in such an application. It is a Cordova plugin, and may be installed using the Cordova tools.

• examples

  This directory contains example Cordova applications that demonstrate how to use these plugins.

Testing

You can test the plugins in two ways. You can test all components using the 'Test' example application, which runs the tests using cordova-plugin-test-framework.

In addition, you can test the modules that consist of pure JavaScript by running npx jasmine runner.js from the support directory.

This requires an installion of Node.js to be in the user's path, and does run much faster. However, it cannot be used with any module of the code which requires native Android or iOS code.