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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

Expanding your test contacts


Being able to create a contact is nice, but you really need for them to have more information than just a name in order to be useful. So, for the next step, add some telephone numbers to the contacts. If you are familiar with the Address Book application already, and you should be, then you know that a contact can have multiple phone numbers—each with a different role or locations. After having seen how the NAME field is handled, you may well assume that the telephone field, named TEL, would operate in the same manner; as a StringArray type.

You would be wrong though.

When it comes to the TEL field each field is a simple String and is given an additional attribute defining which kind of phone number it is. Let's take a look at this with the following code.