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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

Giving TipCalc some polish


Now that we have covered the basics, let's go back and give it some polish. Did you play with it enough to know what needs to be improved? Here are a few of the obvious ones that I will address.

  • There is no application icon. When you select the application on the simulator, there is a plain black window icon—a default icon supplied by the operating system if an icon is not presented.

  • The name of the application is the same as the project name. This isn't horrible, but it could be better.

  • The edit field on the application for the bill amount will accept any value. The bill amount needs to be limited to valid numbers.

  • When exiting the application, a standard save prompt is shown. This is not useful, and is annoying, so it should be removed.

So let's start going through and addressing these issues!

Adding an icon to TipCalc

Adding an icon is very easy, but choosing the right size and shape of the icon can be very confusing. Each class of device has a different screen resolution...