blackberry-jde

Where can I find good RIM API classes for integration in my blackberry projects?

I am new to BB development and it seems a lot of the classes need a lot of work to be able to compete with Android & IPhone classes. The functionality given by iPhone & Android in terms of field classes seems highly advanced. Is there a place where one can find similarly advanced UI code for BB apps? ...

Reverse Geocoding using Blackberry 5.0 API example anyone?

So the blackberry documentation shows you the following code example: import net.rim.device.api.lbs.*; import javax.microedition.location.*; public class myReverseGeocode { private Thread reverseGeocode; public myReverseGeocode() { reverseGeocode = new Thread(thread); reverseGeocode.setPriority(Thread.MIN_P...

BlackBerry How to fix footer manager using native API

Hello everybody, I have a header , listfield and footer in my application's main page. I use horizontalfield manager for footer and header.The header is a banner and footer is a tabs container. I add the header, the listfield and the footer to the screen respectively. So I can fix the header but the footer is below the listfield and th...

Source code for Voice Notes Recorder for 9700

I am looking to study the working of voicenotesrecorder in the Blackberry simulator for the 9700 phone. I am using Blackberry JDE 5.0 and the 9700 simulator. I got the source code for 4.5 but it doesn't run on the simulator. Can you tell me where to get the source code? ...

BlackBerry browserfield example

I am using JDE 6.0 and the Torch 9800 simulator. There is an example which is called "browserfield" - it's opens a the browser to "google.com". However, I cant type any text into the search textbox on the google main page. The same happens with other pages I have tried to use instead of google.com. ...

BlackBerry progress dialog

I want to show the user a progress dialog until a particular task is complete. For example, after the user enters username and password it takes some time to connect as the username and password are validated. I want to show the progress bar to the user while waiting. ...

code to get number of unread emails in BlackBerry

I need to code that returns how many unread emails are in the inbox on a BlackBerry. ...

BlackBerry Math Utilities (Pow & Round)

I'm creating an application from an Excel application that I've used for several years, to calculate mortgage loan details, but I'm having problems with three calculations involving MathUtilities.pow & MathUtilities.round. Here's my app & the compile error messages that are giving me problems. I've also included my original Excel calcu...

Use BlackBerry JRE 5.0.0 or previous on MacOS

I have my Windows work computer set up with JDE 5, but the plugin for the Mac OSX Eclipse on my home computer is JDE 6 and I can't seem to find a source to download it from. I found a blog post about MacOS BlackBerry development, but it is from before the official MacOS plugin was released. Anything new on this front? ...

Blackberry: Location Services Backwards compatible to OS 4.5

I'm trying to use Location services for the BB, but I need backwards support to OS 4.5xx. In 4.5 API doc: Locator.geocode(AddressInfo address, Coordinates startCoords) returns an Enumeration. http://www.blackberry.com/developers/docs/4.6.0api/net/rim/device/api/lbs/Locator.html In 5.0 API doc: Locator.geocode(AddressInfo address, Coord...

invoke SMS application, starts with default sms content?

l want to invoke the native sms application with the specified text but without the phone number , I want it to start with add recipient screen. I have tried many ways but without the solution to my problem. By the way this does not work for me (BB9700, JDE 5.0.0): code: public void send(String text) { MessageConnection c = null...

Blackberry: Speeding up Simulator start

Running any Blackberry Simulator for the JDE takes forever to launch. Any ideas on speeding it up? I see that it looks through a bunch of generic files while booting up, can I strip it down? All I want to do is test my app, which only relies on e-mail, maps and the contact book. ...

send sms between two simulator in blackberry

I want to send SMS to multiple contacts. I wrote the code and it works fine, but I want to test between two simulators. I saw the solution in plenty of forums, including StackOverflow, but I am not able to make it work. ...

BlackBerry and Facebook API

Hi everyone, I try to understand the Facebook API in a Post to Wall so I create my Facebook application and use the simulator to connect with this app and try to do a Post to Wall on my wall but it not work but if I use Strawberry for BlackBerry app it works. It seems like my Facebook app can only do an Update Status. The permission t...

text field in a dialog box on a BlackBerry

I want to create an empty dialog box with a text field inside. When the user enters data inside the box he must be redirected to another screen. I want the Dialog box to come up without any statements but must include a textfield ...

where i found blackberry jde_v4.7.0. zip files to install in eclipse

hi i am new to blackberry.I wish to setup blackberry environment in eclipse. For that i download java developer eclipse 3.5 and Java jdk 6.22,blackberry_jdk_pluInfull_1.1.I install java jdk,and blackberry jdk plugin eclipse.Now i need to install Blackberry_jde,for that what i did is in the eclipse Help-Install new software-Add, there i g...