Interfacing with other applications on the handheld is the best way to make the applications you write more user-friendly and more likely to be used. The BlackBerry SDK offers many ways by which applications can leverage, extend, or integrate with the existing suite of applications that come with a new device. In this chapter, we primarily focused on accessing the PIM data. We also dabbled a little into how to use the messaging systems to send an e-mail message. There is much more that can be done to make applications that don't just work with the operating system, but which can even become embedded into the operating system so that the use may never know they are a separate application.
In this chapter, we covered:
What we mean by PIM data.
How to access a particular list of PIM data.
How to create new PIM items and how to assign values to their fields.
How to send an e-mail message.
Interfacing with the PIM data and messaging applications are some of the most common things an application...