MONOBERRY

Mono for the BlackBerry 10 platform.

Summary

• Website: http://burningsoda.com/software/monoberry/
• GitHub: http://github.com/roblillack/monoberry
• License: MIT X11 license

About

MonoBerry is Mono for the BlackBerry PlayBook OS and the future BlackBerry 10 platform. The project consists of three parts:

• Runtime: The actual port of the Mono .NET runtime to the QNX based platform for the ARM & x86 architectures (devices/simulators).
• Libraries:
  • libblackberry—a C# library to access native functions (screen, camera, sensors, …) of BlackBerry devices.
  • Ports of existing libraries (OpenTK, MonoGame, …) to make them work with MonoBerry and the BlackBerry devices—based on libblackberry.
  • Future: Cascades#, a BlackBerry Cascades (Qt-based GUI toolkit) wrapper for .NET. (BB10 platform only!)
• Tooling: Functionality to package a .NET assembly to a BlackBerry Archive (.bar file) and integration with tools of the BlackBerry NDK.

Building from source

Mac OS X

• Install XCode and the commandline tools
• Install the BlackBerry 10 Native SDK
• Install Mono
• Run make && sudo make install

Linux

These notes are specific to Ubuntu 12.04 but should easily be adaptable to other distributions.

• Install the BlackBerry 10 Native SDK
• Install some build requirements, including Mono: sudo apt-get install build-essential mono-complete autoconf libtool gettext openjdk-7-jre
• Run make && sudo make install

References

MonoBerry is standing on the shoulders of the following giants:

• Mono: Open Source CLR implementation and SDK
• OpenTK: C# OpenGL, OpenCL, and OpenAL wrapper
• Nini: .NET Configuration Library
• to be continued …

License

Copyright © 2012–2013 Robert Lillack.

Licensed under the terms of the MIT X11 license. Please see LICENSE for more information.