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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

Adding the event to your calendar


The next step would be to actually submit the request. There are actually two different things that we want to happen when a user submits the request. The first is that, we will assume that the request will be approved and go ahead and add the time off to your calendar as a new event. Second, we will need to compose and send the e-mail request. This second part we will cover in more detail later. For now, let's stay focused on the PIM data and add an event.

Working with the calendar is very similar to working with contacts. Items in the calendar are generically called events and are also included in the umbrella of PIM items. As a result, the process begins with the PIM class once again. The similarity continues with the Java standard Event class and the BlackBerry-specific BlackBerryEvent class.

With that understanding, let's get started looking at some code.