Beginning BlackBerry 7 Development by Robert Kao, Dante Sarigumba, Anthony Rizk, Kevin Michaluk -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Dedication Contents at a Glance Contents About the Authors About the Technical Reviewer Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Setting the Stage

What This Book Is What You Need to Know Before You Can Begin Setting Up Your Development Environment

Installing the Development Environment Getting Code Signing Keys

What’s Different About Developing for BlackBerry

Limited CPU and Memory Java As the Native API Limited Screen Real Estate User Input Many Different Devices

What’s in This Book

Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10

Summary

Chapter 2: Hello World

Creating an Application with the BlackBerry JDE Plug-In for Eclipse

Creating the Project Creating the Application Classes Basic GUI Fields Explained Running the Simulator Building with Different JDE Versions Packaging and Signing Your Application Debugging on a Device

Polishing the Application

Setting the Title in the BlackBerry Application Descriptor Creating an Icon

Seeing It All in Action Summary

Chapter 3: What Makes a BlackBerry Application?

Javadocs The BlackBerry Application Life Cycle

Starting the Application Creating the Application Invoking the Event Thread Processing Events Exiting the Application

Threading and the Event Thread

Knowing When Your Application Is on the Event Thread Updating the UI from Other Threads

Running Background Applications

Detecting Backgrounding or Foregrounding Sending Your Application to the Background

Understanding the Types of Projects

Libraries Creating an Alternate Entry Point MIDP and MIDlet Projects

Summary

Chapter 4: User Interface Basics

The UI Fun Application The Components of a BlackBerry UI

Creating the Application Adding the Logo Image Adding a Few More Fields

Handling User Interaction

Handling UI Events Handling the Clear Button Handling the Login Button

Creating Menus

Understanding Menu Items Implementing the Login and Clear Menu Items

Displaying Images Summary

Chapter 5: Beyond the Basics of User Interfaces

Enhancing the UI Fun Application Working with Fonts Drawing to the Screen Using the Graphics Context

Using the Paint Method Understanding How the BlackBerry Screen Is Drawn

Creating Custom Fields

Adding a Custom Label Field Creating a Custom Button Field A Review of Custom Fields

Creating Custom Managers

Creating a Manager Tidying Up the Login Success Screen

Creating a Custom Screen

Delegate Managers Implementing the Screen’s Sublayout Method Adding a Few Fields Painting the Background

Adding the Final Touches

Adding a Header Background Making Minor Tweaks

Working with Touch Screen Models Creating Basic Animation

Setting the Vertical Offset Animating the Layout

Summary

Chapter 6: Storing and Searching Data

Storing Data on the BlackBerry Choices for Persistence

RMS Persistent Store Runtime Store JSR 75 FileConnection SQLite

BlackBerry Persistent Store

Persistent Store Keys Persistent Objects What Can You Persist? The Persistable Application More Advanced Persistence Clearing Persistent Data from a Device

The FileConnection API

Basic Application Framework Opening a File Connection Listing the Directory Contents Viewing Pictures The Image Display Screen Loading Images from the File System Getting Images into the Simulator Scaling the Image

Writing to the File System

A Dynamic Menu Item The File Name Screen Copying the File

Using SQLite

Creating a Database and a Table Inserting Records Querying Tables SQLite Sample Application

Integrating Your App with Unified Search Summary

Chapter 7: Hello Out There! Making a Network-Enabled Application

Different Ways to Connect

BES/MDS Direct TCP/IP BIS Wi-Fi WAP 2.0 WAP 1.0 Short-Range Communication Recommendation

Service Book The MIDP Connection Framework

Connector Connections HTTP Basics The Test Web Application

The Networking Application

Some Controls Making an HTTP Connection The HttpRequestDispatcher Class Testing It Two-Way Interaction: Sending Data via HTTP POST

Connection Method: Using Direct TCP/IP Instead of BES/MDS

Making a Connection Using WAP 2.0 Making a Connection Using BIS Making a Wi-Fi Connection

Determining Network Availability

Using CoverageInfo Using WLANInfo Putting It All Together

TCP Socket Connections Summary

Chapter 8: Where Am I? Using Location-Based Services

GPS Support on BlackBerry Devices Getting Location Information Getting Location Information Using JSR 179 APIs and the BlackBerry Extensions to JSR 179

GPS Modes Specifying a GPS Mode Using JSR 179 Specifying a GPS Mode Using the BlackBerry Extensions to JSR 179

The Location Application

Getting Periodic Location Updates Using LocationListener

Using Geocoding and Reverse Geocoding

Geocoding: Getting Coordinates from an Address

Using BlackBerry Maps

The Invoke API Launching the Default BlackBerry Maps View Location Documents Displaying a Custom Map View MapField: Embedding BlackBerry Maps in Your UI

Summary

Chapter 9: Getting Your App Out There: Packaging and Publishing

Setting Application Properties Over-the-Air Installation

Sibling COD Files The JAD File Content Types (MIME Types) Uploading Your Application Downloading the Application

Desktop Installation

The ALX File

BlackBerry App World

Getting an App World Account Distributing Your Application on App World Implementing License Keys Pricing The Submission Process App World API In-App Purchase

Other Application Stores

MobiHand Other Sites

Summary

Chapter 10: Next Steps

Keeping Current

Forums BlackBerry Conferences OpenGL on the BlackBerry Newsletters, Blogs, and Other Resources

Farewell

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