I'm looking for the fastest, most efficient way to debug my java application for BlackBerry. I noticed that it takes forever just to attach the debugger to the device, using a Torch 9800 in my cas...

I have created two Blackberry project in Blackberry Java Plug-in for Eclipse, i.e. MyProjectApp(set as application project) and MyProjectLib(set as Library project). Now I have created a simple Mai...

Are there any third party libraries or SDK's - commercial or open source - that would provide a straightforward way to integrate Bing Maps in a BlackBerry application? Now that Bing Maps Mobile is ...

I need to encode a URL using HTTP GET request in Blackberry. Can any one help me find how do I achieve this.

I am trying to silence an incoming call and prevent the BlackBerry device from ringing. I tried Alert.setVolume(0) and some EventInjector keys but this didn't work. So how to silence an incoming c...

vfm = new VerticalFieldManager(Manager.VERTICAL_SCROLL); vfm.add(new LabelField("horizontally centered...",Field.FIELD_HCENTER | LabelField.FOCUSABLE)); vfm.add(new LabelField("horizontally cente...

I am writing an app for BlackBerry that utilizes a BlackBerry smartcard reader. There is not much documentation on the subject, so I'd really like if someone could give me starting examples. Basic...

I'm new to blackberry, currently I'm developing a project, in that project I need to add a jar(Ksoap) file. For this I created a project and I added the jar file which I required the added it on bu...

We have a BlackBerry app that access a secure web service that uses a SSL Certificate that is not installed on some BlackBerry OS5 devices. This is causing problems for users of our apps who see th...

How do we set the background and font colors in a RichTextField? I tried to override the paint() method in addition to what has been described here, but when I scroll down in, the background gets e...

I have my application ready on BlackBerry webwork and PhoneGap. I successfully run it using eclipse plug-in for BB 5.0 and BB 6.0. But when I tried to wipe user data from BB 6.0 and tried to direc...

i am developping an application that has chat&message support. I need to know weather it is applicaple on BB OS 4.5 to set a star icon on application icon as in messages application .

I am creating a Blackberry application to display a full screen web view of a certain site. I have a working browserfield that displays properly but navigation from page to page is slower than that...

Our company will soon start developing few products for mobile platforms, as CTO I was asked to examine the Pro and Cons of the different tools available in order to achieve the best quality ...

I am using blackberry ant tools to generate cod/jad files and found the generated cod to be different from the one i am trying to generate using blackberry JDE 5.0 . The sizes of the siblings cod ...

In my application i have 2 types of editfields. One of them behaves like single line editfield, the other behaves like multi-line editfield (editarea). In this screen i have one header, one editfie...

I am using this code to set the scrollBar to the VerticalFieldManager in Blackberry VerticalFieldManager temp2=new VerticalFieldManager(VerticalFieldManager.VERTICAL_SCROLL); LabelField result=n...

There is a project that has #preprocess directives. I.e. there is #preprocess directive in the beginning of a file and something like #ifdef BlackBerrySDK6.0.0 inside the file. Though it compiles ...

I was reading in Anthony Rizk's book Beginning BlackBerry Development that although System.exit() method will exit an application, it is recommended to avoid this and properly clean up the applicat...

I have an abstract class which looks like: abstract class AbstractFoo implements Bar { //Code goes here } However when I try to make AbstractFoo protected I get an error compile time error comp...

Is there a way to enable Wifi from code in BlackBerry OS? Thx -- EDIT -- I just wanted to add the code snippet for checking if WiFi is already enabled: if ( (RadioInfo.getActiveWAFs() & Rad...

Which gui development option gives a optimized and faster gui for Blackberry applications? BB tools,J2ME tools,or any other UI toolkit like LWUIT ?

Question: How does one properly initialize a phonegap project for BlackBerry in Eclipse? Details: I have my project files added to the new Eclipse BlackBerry Project and added the Phonegap lib to ...

I've developed a PhoneGap application that I intend to deploy to my BlackBerry Bold 9700. My development tools includes NotePad++, Apache Ant, Sun JDK and BlackBerry WebWorks SDK as dictated on thi...

I have date in this format 2011-11-02. From this date, how can we know the Day-of-week, Month and Day-of-month, like in this format Wednesday-Nov-02, from calendar or any other way?