Black Berry devices and applications are selling by the millions. As a Black Berry developer, you need an advanced skill set to successfully exploit the most compelling features of the platform. This book will help you develop that skill set and teach you how to create the most sophisticated Black Berry programs possible.
With Advanced Black Berry Development, you’ll learn you how to take advantage of Black Berry media capabilities, including the camera and video playback. The book also shows you how to send and receive text and multimedia messages, use powerful cryptography libraries, and connect with the user’s personal and business contacts and calendar.
Not only will you be learning how to use these application programming interfaces, but you’ll also be building a program that takes full advantage of them: a wireless media-sharing app. Each chapter’s lessons will be applied by enhancing the app from a prototype to a fully polished program. Along the way, yo’ll learn how to differentiate your product from other downloads by fully integrating with the operating system. Your app will run in the browser and within device menus, just like software that comes with the phone.
Once you are comfortable with writing apps, this book will show you how to take them to the next level. You’ll learn how to move from running on one phone to running on all phones, and from one country to all countries. You’ll additionally learn how to support your users with updates. No other resource compares for mastering the techniques needed for expert development on this mobile platform.
Table of Content
Advanced APIs.- Getting Started.- Media Capture.- Media Playback.- Wireless Messaging.- Cryptography.- Device Integration.- Personal Information.- Browser.- Digging in Deep.- Going Pro.- RIM security.- Porting your app.- Advanced build techniques.- Conclusion.
About the author
Chris King is a software engineer specializing in mobile development. He has written a wide variety of embedded and downloadable libraries and applications, including wireless messaging, lifestyle, shopping, music, and video applications. His software has been pre-loaded on tens of millions of phones in the U.S. Chris develops applications for Black Berry, Android, Java ME, BREW, and Windows Mobile devices. Chris has written articles on mobile development, and was the technical reviewer for the books Android Essentials by Chris Haseman and Beginning Java ME Platform by Ray Rischpater. He currently serves as a senior engineer for Gravity Mobile in San Francisco.
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