While BlackBerry awaits to see if the arrival of the official SnapChat app will ever come to the BlackBerry 10 platform, developers have been hard at work using the SnapChat API to build a native client. The first of these SnapChat apps is called, Snap2Chat, and looks to be a nice robust version even though it is still in beta at this point.
The native SnapChat client was created by developer Nemory Oliver, and currently sits at beta v0.5, which is set to expire by the year’s end. Based on the timeline, it looks like the developer plans on releasing a final version at the beginning of 2014.
Because the app is in beta, you’ll need to manually side-load the .BAR file onto your BlackBerry device. Find out how to side-load apps onto your BlackBerry. You can keep up on Snap2Chat via the developer’s Twitter page.
Here is the latest change log for Snap2Chat:
Major Changes:
Send Snaps
View Snaps
Design:
Bright and Dark Theme Options
Customize Title Bar Color
Customize The Main Tabbed Pane
Pull To Refresh
Better Loading and Faster
Camera Features:
Set Front or Rear Camera
Set Aspect Ratio
Set Flash Mode
Set Shooting Mode
Set Focus Mode
Set Scene Mode
Edit Features:
Edit Via Built in Picture Editor
Set Snap Lifetime
Add Caption (Simulation for now but doesn’t reflect to the final snap)
Missing Edit Features:
Drawing Lines
Saving Captions
Viewing Snap Features:
Timer ticks until snap expires
Tap To Load
Double Tap To Reply
Press and hold to view snap
Send Snap Features:
Send to unlimited number of friends
Reply to a snap
Send a specific snap to a friend
Now Supports:
10.0, 10.1, 10.2 and above
All Devices (But only tested: 10.1 Dev Alpha C and 10.2.1 Z10)
Bugs Fixed:
Loading Multiple Times Bug now fixed
And many more (I already forgot ahahha)
Upcoming Features:
3rd Party Worldwide Chatroom (still integrated with snap2chat)
