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BlackBerry Java Application Development

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BlackBerry Java Application Development

Overview of this book

BlackBerry Smartphone was once the domain of jet-setting business users with power suits. Now you can hardly go anywhere without seeing someone using a BlackBerry to check their messages or make a call. It's this kind of explosive growth that makes the BlackBerry ecosystem a great place to develop and market applications through the BlackBerry App World store—this book shows you how to do just that! This step-by-step guide gives you a hands-on experience of developing innovative Java applications for your BlackBerry. With the help of this book, you will learn to build your own applications to illustrate the platform, and the various capabilities that developers can use in their programs. It explores the powers of Blackberry and helps you develop professional and impressive Java applications. The book teaches how to write rich, interactive, and smart BlackBerry applications in Java. It expects the readers to know Java but not Java Mobile or the BlackBerry APIs. We will learn to build rich, interactive, and smart Java applications for the BlackBerry. The book will cover UI programming, data storage, programming network, and internet API apps. As we move on, we will learn more about the BlackBerry's device features, such as messaging, GPS, multimedia, contacts and calendar, and so on.This book also helps you build your own applications to illustrate the platform, and the various capabilities that developers can use in their programs.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
BlackBerry Java Application Development
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
Preface

Chapter 11. Wrapping It All Up

Here we are, in the home stretch! In this chapter, we'll take the applications that we've just been working on and add the finishing touches in order to release it to the public through the BlackBerry App World. These finishing touches include adding localization through resource files, code-signing the application, and then completing the submission process.

If you've made a really great application that you want to sell online you want to be able to sell it to as many people as you can and make as much money as you can, right? BlackBerry handhelds are supported by and sold in many countries all over the world. It only makes sense that if your application can be created in such a way as to display the screen by using a language that is natural to a person; you are more likely to be able to sell it to them. This is accomplished through the use of a resource file that contains all of the language-specific words which are used in your application, and which can...