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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 - creating a SeparatorField


Creating a SeparatorField is as simple as creating a field can possibly be. All you have to do is create the object and add it to the screen. Most of the time it's not even worth creating a variable to store a reference to the Field object. Just add the following line to the createFields method and run the application.

add(new SeparatorField());

What just happened?

When you run the application the screen will look boring and somewhat confusing because the SeparatorField can hardly be seen. The field is in fact the small black line under the title portion of the screen. Can you see it? It is very easily missed because it almost looks like it is supposed to be there already. Remember, there is a field at the top of the screen, which is the title, and is provided as part of the MainScreen framework code.

Putting the SeparatorField first may not have been the best way to show the field, but this is by far the simplest field and so is a good starting point...