Beginning Blackberry 7 Development

Table of contents

1. Title
2. Dedication
3. Contents at a Glance
4. Contents
5. About the Authors
6. About the Technical Reviewer
7. Acknowledgments
8. Chapter 1: Setting the Stage
   1. What This Book Is
   2. What You Need to Know Before You Can Begin
   3. Setting Up Your Development Environment
   4. What’s Different About Developing for BlackBerry
   5. What’s in This Book
   6. Summary
9. Chapter 2: Hello World
   1. Creating an Application with the BlackBerry JDE Plug-In for Eclipse
   2. Polishing the Application
   3. Seeing It All in Action
   4. Summary
10. Chapter 3: What Makes a BlackBerry Application?
    1. Javadocs
    2. The BlackBerry Application Life Cycle
    3. Threading and the Event Thread
    4. Running Background Applications
    5. Understanding the Types of Projects
    6. Summary
11. Chapter 4: User Interface Basics
    1. The UI Fun Application
    2. The Components of a BlackBerry UI
    3. Handling User Interaction
    4. Creating Menus
    5. Displaying Images
    6. Summary
12. Chapter 5: Beyond the Basics of User Interfaces
    1. Enhancing the UI Fun Application
    2. Working with Fonts
    3. Drawing to the Screen Using the Graphics Context
    4. Creating Custom Fields
    5. Creating Custom Managers
    6. Creating a Custom Screen
    7. Adding the Final Touches
    8. Working with Touch Screen Models
    9. Creating Basic Animation
    10. Summary
13. Chapter 6: Storing and Searching Data
    1. Storing Data on the BlackBerry
    2. Choices for Persistence
    3. BlackBerry Persistent Store
    4. The FileConnection API
    5. Writing to the File System
    6. Using SQLite
    7. Integrating Your App with Unified Search
    8. Summary
14. Chapter 7: Hello Out There! Making a Network-Enabled Application
    1. Different Ways to Connect
    2. Service Book
    3. The MIDP Connection Framework
    4. The Networking Application
    5. Connection Method: Using Direct TCP/IP Instead of BES/MDS
    6. Determining Network Availability
    7. TCP Socket Connections
    8. Summary
15. Chapter 8: Where Am I? Using Location-Based Services
    1. GPS Support on BlackBerry Devices
    2. Getting Location Information
    3. Getting Location Information Using JSR 179 APIs and the BlackBerry Extensions to JSR 179
    4. The Location Application
    5. Using Geocoding and Reverse Geocoding
    6. Using BlackBerry Maps
    7. Summary
16. Chapter 9: Getting Your App Out There: Packaging and Publishing
    1. Setting Application Properties
    2. Over-the-Air Installation
    3. Desktop Installation
    4. BlackBerry App World
    5. Other Application Stores
    6. Summary
17. Chapter 10: Next Steps
    1. Keeping Current
    2. Farewell
18. Index