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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

Embedding the address book into your application


Now that you have some test data in the address book it's time to use it. The purpose of the TimeOff application is to provide a way for an employee in the field to request time off. In order to do this, the application will collect an e-mail address, beginning and ending dates, and a reason for the request through four fields on the screen. When the request is submitted through the menu item the application uses these pieces of information to compose an e-mail message that will be sent to the manager by using the e-mail address provided.

As we already have a field for the e-mail address, wouldn't it be nice to be able to allow the user to pick the e-mail address to use from the address book instead of requiring them to re-enter it by hand?

You already went over how to get the ContactList from the PIM object. You could create a screen and list all of the contacts on the screen, but this could be quite a long list that would take up a lot of...