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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 - adding a MainScreen


Now it's time to add that screen just mentioned to your project. Adding the screen follows the same steps that you just did to add the UiApplication class.

  1. 1. Right-click on the package and select New | Class.

  2. 2. In the New Java Class dialog, enter TipCalcMainScreen as the class name.

  3. 3. Select the MainScreen class to be the superclass by using the Browse button (just like we did before).

  4. 4. Unlike last time, make sure that the public static void main (String args[]) checkbox remains unchecked.

  5. 5. Click on Finish.

What just happened?

Much like before, the package declaration, the import statement, and the class definition are created automatically for you. It should look a great deal like the code generated for the TipCalcApplication class except the main method is not there. Just like before, this is just a starting point and now we need to start modifying it.

Determining your screen requirements

So, what kind of screen should this application have? Well,...