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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

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After tackling the relatively complicated fields of NAME and TEL, the EMAIL field should be a lot easier. Making sure that your contacts have an e-mail address is the whole point of this task because these will be used later on when testing another feature. Knowing that the Address Book application allows you to have up to three e-mail addresses, how would you think they are implemented in the PIM? Is it implemented as a String with multiple values (such as the TEL field), or as a StringArray (such as the NAME field)? If you chose a String with multiple values, you chose correctly!

The EMAIL field actually fits well with this concept of a String field with multiple values. Unlike the TEL fields, there are no attributes that are attached to each of the e-mail addresses, so adding one simply adds it to the list and there is nothing more to be concerned about. So let's look at some code already!