Skype for BlackBerry 10 is an Excellent Android Port

BlackBerry users have been giddy about the announcement of Skype coming to BlackBerry 10. Official word from Skype has revealed that it is an Android port.  We found out on January 30th that Skype would indeed be coming to BlackBerry 10, but we were not told whether or not it would be a native app.

Thanks to some information on Skype’s site we now know that the BlackBerry 10 app will indeed be a port of the Android one.  Now this isn’t the worst news, but we were hoping that we would see a native cascades app for Skype.  In the end as long as it works and we can use Skype on our BlackBerry 10 devices, the way in which it got there is not an issue.

Now before get all worried, know that it is not all that bad. I’ve seen Skype on the Z10 and it looks amazing. Skype has been working very close with BlackBerry.

How close? Enough to have the Android action bar look nearly identical to that of a native BlackBerry 10 app. It runs so well due to the integration of support for Jellybean in an upcoming BlackBerry 10 OS update.

Skype for BlackBerry 10 won’t be native right away, but it certainly won’t be terrible.

 

How well will it integrate? Will it be an Android port? Well, we don't have all of those answers yet, but it's looking like we can at the very least confirm it will be an Android port based on the information shown above which comes directly from the Skype website. 

Source:Crackberry