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Some Useful BlackBerry development tutorials and Custom UI components

Posted by Admin April - 17 - 2010 - Saturday

Many times, I was in search of building custom components for BlackBerry and tutorials on how to make great apps. Here are some of the links that I found interesting.

Tutorial:

Create a BlackBerry Game Tutorial

Create your own VirtualKeyboard for BBStorm

Creating a loading/animation screen for your application

How to use GaugeField to show progress

Localizing your application for different country and language

Packaging your BB application for distribution

Custom Components:

Change Color of horizontal manager based on focus

Single Line EditField with horizontal scrolling (related post)

How to create or load a custom font for your BB application

Create a custom ButtonField for BB

Creating a custom Field

Custom TextBox for BlackBerry

Great tutorial on custom field and GridLayoutManager

Charting Tools

Creating a XY Chart/Plot as a BlackBerry Custom Field

Custom Bubble Chart Field

Knowledge Base Article on creating GraphField

HTTP Connection for BlackBerry

BlackBerry http connection is very much problematic. For using different connection type you have to use different ways. It should be such that http connection is automatically handled. I don’t understand why they don’t make it easy for developers to use http connection. This http connection systems makes life hell, specifically for BIS

HTTP Connection Tutorial

Using JSON to do data exchange with Server

BB Article on creating HTTP Connection

Application Permission Related:

Asking for permission from user

GPS Tutorial:

Accessing GPS device and getting data

Performance Issues:

http://www.thinkingblackberry.com/archives/144

UI Threading and issues

BB MenuItems:

Menuitems ordinals and priorities