BlackBerry Development Fundamentals

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The BlackBerry Java development tools can be downloaded from www.blackberry/developers.

To access sample applications that can be used to help learn BlackBerry development, refer to the BlackBerry Development Environment Labs.

To access online developer learning resources go to http://na.blackberry.com/eng/developers/javaappdev/learningresources.

There are several interesting knowledge base articles related to concepts in this chapter:

  • How To - Use the preprocessor (Article #DB-00712)
  • How To - Use the BlackBerry Signature Tool from a command line (Article #DB-00098)
  • How to - Manually register the CSI files (Article #DB-00100)
  • How To - Use Javaloader to take a screen shot (Article #DB-00484)
  • How To - Use the RAPC compiler (Article #DB-00066)
  • How To - Obfuscate code in a BlackBerry application (Article #DB-00438)
  • How To - Load applications onto a BlackBerry smartphone (Article #DB-00041)
  • How To - Configure email simulation support in the BlackBerry MDS Simulator (Article #DB-00651)

 

To access the articles, go to www.blackberry.com/developers and search for the relevant knowledge base article.

For information on how to build BlackBerry applications in NetBeans refer to
http://www.netbeans.org/kb/55/blackberry.html and http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-3753/ghjjt?a=view.

For information on MIDlet preverification refer to http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/J2ME_Programming/MIDlet_Preverify.

 
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