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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

Summary


This chapter goes over how to put the finishing touches on an application by localizing the resources into resource files and properly code-signing the application so that it can be loaded onto a real device. As if that weren't enough, the last section covers the process for becoming a vendor with BlackBerry App World and how to submit an application.

After completing this chapter, you should understand:

  • How to create a resource bundle in your application

  • The "magic" gotchas that make resource bundles work

  • How to get resource strings from within your application so that the proper strings can be displayed

  • Why code-signing is important

  • How to install code-signing keys and sign your application

  • What it takes to get set up as a vendor on BlackBerry App World

  • How to submit an application

There is still a lot left to be covered but at this point you are more than ready to get out there and start making some applications for yourself! Thanks for taking this journey with me! Now get out there and...