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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

RadioButtonField


A radio button is a close cousin to a checkbox. Unlike the checkbox though, it is meant for many radio buttons to be grouped together so that only one radio button in a group may be selected at a time. It is commonly used when there are a small, fixed number of choices that require different text for each one such that a ChoiceField might not be the best way to present the information to the user.

The RadioButtonField uses a small circle, or dimple, instead of a square like the CheckboxField. They do follow the industry standards, meaning they are arranged the same way as a checkbox by putting the radios on the left-hand side of the screen and the labels on the right.

RadioButtonField cannot be used without a RadioButtonGroup to go along with it. Using just one radio button doesn't make sense—that would essentially be a broken checkbox—and attempting to do so causes your application to crash; so don't do it. The RadioButtonGroup does the real work when it comes to making the...