Networking in BlackBerry 10 is based on features in the underlying Qt APIs. In particular, the QtNetwork module provides most of the APIs that you can use to send and receive data. For example, you can use classes like QNetworkAccessManager, QNetworkRequest, and QNetworkReply to manage network connections, requests, and replies.
Our documentation includes a few sections that you may find useful:
Networking
This section provides an overview of the features in the QtNetwork module and includes code samples to help you implement these features in your app. Here, you learn:
- The purpose of the main QtNetwork classes
- How the major pieces of the QtNetwork module fit together
- How to send simple requests (such as an HTTP GET request) and receive the results
- Techniques to process network replies and update elements in your app appropriately
Tutorial: Explore the Networking Downloading sample app
This walkthrough teaches you how to access a remote server from your app and retrieve some simple data from a file. Here, you learn to:
- Configure your projects to use the Qt networking library
- Send an HTTP request over a network and save the reply data to the device file system
- Check the current network status and detect changes to this status
- Create a file in the file system and populate it with data from the network
Tutorial: Use Secure Socket Layer
This tutorial teaches you how to create and manage a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) connection to a remote server and send data from your app over this connection. Here, you learn to:
- Set up a secure connection that uses SSL and port 443 (the default port for SSL communication)
- Use a certificate chain to verify the secure connection
- Read data from and write data to an SSL socket
We're always updating and improving our documentation, so check back frequently and get networking!