So far, we have seen how to set up the environments for Android and iOS development. This recipe walks us through the steps required to set up the environment for Blackberry-based development.
JDK is installed and the following environment variables are set correctly:
JAVA_HOMEPATH
Carry out the following steps:
Download and extract Apache Ant and add it to your
PATHvariable.Download BlackBerry WebWorks SDK from http://na.blackberry.com/eng/developers/browserdev/widgetsdk.jsp and install to, say,
C:\BBWP.Open a command window and navigate to the
C:\BBWPdirectory.Type
ant create -Dproject.path=C:\Touch\BlackBerry\WebWorks\bookand press Enter.Change to the newly created directory located at
C:\Touch\BlackBerry\WebWorks\book.Open the
project.propertiesfile in your favorite editor and change the linebbwp.dir=tobbwp.dir=C:\\BBWP.Copy
C:\sencha-touchto thewwwfolder.Create the
ch01folder insidewwwand copych01_01.js, which was created in the first recipe, into thech01folder.Edit
index.htmland past the following code:<!DOCTYPE HTML> <html> <head> <title>Yapps! - Your daily applications!</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="sencha-touch/resources/css/sencha-touch.css" type="text/css"> <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="phonegap.1.0.0.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="sencha-touch/sencha-touch-debug.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="ch01/ch01_01.js"></script> </head> <body></body> </html>Build the PhoneGap sample project by typing
ant buildin your command window while you are in your project's directory.Deploy to Simulator:
While in your project directory, in command prompt, type
ant load-simulatorPress the BlackBerry button on the simulator, go to downloads and you should see your app loaded there
Deploy to Device:
You have to have your signing keys from RIM
While in your project directory, in the command prompt, type
ant load-devicePress the BlackBerry button on the simulator, go to downloads and you should see your app loaded there
In steps 1 and 2, we downloaded and installed the Blackberry SDK and PhoneGap required for Blackberry-based development.
In steps 3 through 6, we created a PhoneGap-based project for Blackberry.
In steps 7 through 9, we prepared the www folder by creating and copying our application specific folders and files.
In step 10, we built the project. In addition, we modified index.html to make it look exactly like the one created in the Setting up the Android-based development environment recipe.
In steps 11 and 12, we deployed and tested the application in the simulator, as well as in the real Blackberry device.