Changes in the BlackBerry Messenger Social platform: Stakes around the order of operations.

According to RIM, the justification for this change is that: they want to ensure the best user experience possible for users who are using BBM Connected applications.  These changes therefore aim to prevent also the unnecessary overhead of applications that attempt to register with the BBM Social Platform every time they run by forcing them to check the registration status.

The methods used to register remain the same, but the order of operations has changed. Henceforth the main change requires an application to first check on the status of registration first before attempting to register. (If an application doesn’t check the status first, the registration attempt is ignored).

 This includes also the samples RIM previously provided (BBMQtRegistration, BBMQtProfile, BBMQtInviteToDownload and BBMQtProfileBoxSAmple). 

Therefore if your registration code is based on what is used in those samples, you’ll need to update.

The registration method used in these samples works on current and previous beta releases of BlackBerry 10.  It is also the required method to use for future releases of BlackBerry 10.

Recommendations: So if you have created a BBM Connected application for BlackBerry 10, ensure you update your registration code.