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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

Time for action - running an application in the simulator


  1. 1. The best way to start the simulator and run the application is to click on the Run button on the toolbar. This button looks like the standard Play button that is commonly used in many IDEs. Of course, you can also use the Run menu item, which is found under the Run menu. Finally, like all good IDEs, there is a hotkey as well. In this case, pressing Ctrl + F11 will start the simulator to running.

    At this point the BlackBerry simulator is starting up. This should be pretty quick and when it is done you should see a window with the picture of a BlackBerry Curve in it. You can change the device being simulated, but because we are using the BlackBerry 4.5 component pack, the curve simulator is shown by default.

  2. 2. Next, you need to find the HelloWorldDemo application. Click on the Menu button (or press the Insert key to simulate that) and use the arrow keys to simulate scrolling the trackball to select the HelloWorldDemo icon.

  3. 3. Next...