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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 MapField


  1. 1. It's time to see a MapField in action! Add the following code to the createFields method.

    MapField map = new MapField();
    Coordinates c = new Coordinates(37.821582,-122.479362,(float) 0.0);
    map.moveTo(c);
    map.setZoom(4);
    add(map);
    
  2. 2. After that is done, compile and run the application and you will see a lovely map on the screen!

What just happened?

Again, because this is a read-only field the code is once again pretty simple compared to the ListField and TreeField that we just went over. Creating the field itself is very simple and setting up the field isn't much harder. In this sample, you create a Coordinates object with the coordinates for the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California. As you can see, these coordinates are hardcoded, meaning you aren't using a GPS to get them.

Coordinates c = new Coordinates(37.821582,-122.479362,(float) 0.0);

Next, a call to the moveTo method tells the MapField to shift the display so that those coordinates are...