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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

Resource bundles


You've already seen how we have multiple resource files that act together as one thing. This thing is called a resource bundle. As the name implies, a resource bundle is the term given to a collection of resource files that all work together. Why would you want more than one resource file? A single resource file can contain a set of values only for a specific language and locale. Therefore, if you want to support multiple languages and locales in your application, you will need multiple resource files—one for each language and locale.

In this case, so far, we have one resource file—the file named Hansel.rrc. The other file created, named Hansel.rrh, is the resource header file. This file stores the names of each resource key but not any values associated with that key. The resource file, the .rrc file, is what contains the actual values for each of the keys.

Why is this important? Remember that there are meant to be several resource files—one for each language and locale that...