blackberry

Get Blackberry Owner details (eg name/number) through API

I know this is a simple one, but I'm not sure the name of the framework item that will help me. (I know Google could solve this one but my keyworks fail me) I'm trying to gather some of the BlackBerry owner's details (phone number, first/last name, edit: email address) to autofill a "Create new account" screen. I'm using DeviceInfo to ...

how to overcome font problem in blackberry?

I am reading data from a .csv file and displaying it. When I encounter the micro character (µ) some special symbols are displayed instead. How can I display the micro character? ...

Black Berry Table View

here is my app. how to add table view or grids in the following. should i draw every thing plz help this is my code import net.rim.device.api.ui.*; import net.rim.device.api.ui.component.*; import net.rim.device.api.ui.container.*; import net.rim.device.api.system.*; import net.rim.device.api.util.*; import java.util.*; /*An applicati...

How can I create a JavaScript Blackberry Widget Extention?

In a recent blog post announcing Blackberry Widgets the following was said about getting Java library functionality in a Blackberry Widget (emphasis added by me): What if RIM doesn't provide me with the JavaScript API I am looking for? RIM will continue to add new JavaScript APIs for BlackBerry Widgets. Most will not requi...

Problems killing a custom blackberry app

All of my screens inherent from a screen with the following onClose() method: public boolean onClose() { Dialog.alert("Closing"); done = true; System.exit(0); return true; } I kind of assumed that System.exit(0); would actually kill my application. If I hit the red button to completely exit, I do get a "Closing" dialog m...

Prevent zoom on Blackberry Storm

For web pages that are being viewed in the iPhone, you can add the following meta tag to disable to zoom feature: <meta name="viewport" content="width=320; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/> Is there something to do the same for the Blackberry Storm? ...

How to create EditField Which accept only text in Blackberry?

How to make EditField which accept only alphabets and it should not accept any Numeric,any special character in blackberry.ie) that editfield should accept only alphabetic character. ...

How to invoke touchEvent for custom field?(Blackberry JDE4.7)

My code in custom fileld. protected boolean touchEvent(TouchEvent event) { // Figure out where the touch occurred on the screen int X = event.getX(1); int Y = event.getY(1); // Determine if the touch occurred within the extent of this manager if (getExtent().contains(X, Y)) { switch (event.getEvent()) { case TouchEvent.DOWN: ...

Sip Soft-Phone for BlackBerry - Is there any free application / source code available ?

Is there any free application / source code available ? Thanks ! Lily ...

How to sign auto run application in blackberry

I've read the help of eclipse in blackberry development environment about the auto run application that it requires signing. From where can I get the sign to enable my application to be auto run? ...

OAuth library for BlackBerry apps (for a twitter client)

Hi Is there an OAuth library available for integration with BlackBerry apps? I would like to post a tweet from my app but could not find anything which would help in logging in. Did find this URL but could not get it working in my BB app. Can anyone please help me out. Thanks. ...

How can I display custom icon and two hyperlinks in model pop up on Blackberry map?

I need to display a custom icon and two hyperlinks in model pop up on Blackberry map. How can I do this? ...

To retrieve the contents of .doc files?

I am working as a Software developer for Mobile Applications. I am developing an application in which i want to retrieve the contents of the .doc files that arrive on the Blackberry mobile as an Email Attachment Part. Whenever i am retrieving the contents of the .txt files, the code written for the mobile is retrieving the accurate conte...

How to make HyperLink in blackberry application?

Can anyone tell me how to make hyperlink in blackberry.If u have any idea pls share with me.If u can provide some code snippet. ...

How do you make a dropdown list that displays images to the user instead of text?

The ObjectChoiceField field meets all my requirements but it is not pretty. This is what I have: String pets[] = {"Dog", "Cat", "Duck" }; ObjectChoiceField dd = new ObjectChoiceField("My Pet",pets,0,ObjectChoiceField.FIELD_LEFT); But I would prefer to have pictures in the dropdown. My understanding is that the object array must conta...

What's the recommended way to store (externally) and read data on a BlackBerry?

We have an application we would like to port to the BlackBerry platform that reads its data from a SQLite database that, for the purposes of this port, will be around 4 MB. This database isn't particularly complicated (few relationships, two interesting tables to index/search and the resultant data) and is only used for reading. What's...

Facebook Connect for BlackBerry

Hi I'm looking for a solution similar to the iPhone Facebook Connect (http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Facebook%5FConnect%5Ffor%5FiPhone) for the BlackBerry platform. Basically, I need my users to authenticate against Facebook from within a native BlackBerry application (so, not a Web based mobile application). Is there a l...

How to create CustomLabelField which suites for all blackberry version?

I have created my own customlabelfield, using this customlabelfield i can able to modify the background color,font color,width and height...When i use this label field in the version 4.6 i can get the expected output like,if the text is not suite in single line then it automatically comes to second line but if i use the same in version 4...

Problem running Blackberry App without BES

I'm developing a Blackberry Application that does quite a bit of networking, using HttpConnections and InputStreams. I've been testing it in an environment where it has access to a BES, but will be demoing it with only wireless. Some preliminary testing on a Bold 9000 shows that although the web browser of the phone can get onto the in...

BlackBerry and map based apps like Yelp and Google Map

This is a question-loaded post from someone who is just getting started with BB development. Any guidance is much appreciated. How are map based BlackBerry apps such as Yelp and Google Map implemented? As with the web based version. Yelp for the BB allows you to search for restaurants & etc. based on on the current or specified loca...