Monthly Archives: January, 2010
How To Find That Memory Leak (Part Two): Detecting The Leak
In part one of our memory leak how to series, I explained the most common cases for a memory leak in a Java® development environment, and how that can affect your application. Today we’ll discuss how to detect potential leaks. Application memory leaks are usually not that easy to find – the application may need […]
File Access In a BlackBerry Widget
The BlackBerry® Widget API allows web developers to very easily access files that are stored on the BlackBerry® smartphone or on the SD Card. Web developers are able to store JavaScript, CSS or any media files locally on the BlackBerry smartphone to allow for quick access to those files. This can go a long way […]
BlackBerry Developer Resource Fridays: Week of January 22nd
Welcome to BlackBerry® Developer Resource Fridays, a reoccurring event here on the BlackBerry Developer’s Blog. We’ll keep you up to date on helpful articles that have been added to the Developer Knowledge Base and other new additions to the BlackBerry Developer Zone. Here are this edition’s pearls of wisdom: What Is – Supported versions of […]
BlackBerry Theme Studio Webinar Follow-Up
Thanks to everyone who attended our webcast presentation on BlackBerry® Theme Studio on Tuesday. We had a fantastic turnout which shows the growing interest in BlackBerry theme development. We received a number of really great questions during the question & answer period and we did our best to answer all of them. Although we ran […]
New Image Viewing Classes in JDE 5.0
BlackBerry® Java® Development Environment v5.0 introduces two new user interface elements for displaying images on BlackBerry® smartphones. The PictureScrollField allows users to browse through many images. The ZoomScreen allows users to zoom and pan around images. PictureScrollField The picture scroll field is a horizontally, kinetically scrolling field for displaying images. ‘Kinetic’ is a fancy way […]
BlackBerry Developer Resource Fridays: Week of January 8th
Welcome to BlackBerry® Developer Resource New Years Edition a reoccurring event here on the BlackBerry Developer’s Blog. We’ll keep you up to date on helpful articles that have been added to the Developer Knowledge Base and other new additions to the BlackBerry Developer Zone. Here are this edition’s pearls of wisdom: Using MIDlets on BlackBerry […]
BlackBerry Theme Studio Webinar January 12th
It’s been a busy few weeks for the theme team at Research In Motion. At the 2009 BlackBerry® Developer Conference in November, we announced the immediate availability of BlackBerry® Theme Studio v5.0, our newest version of the product formerly known at the Plazmic Content Developer’s Kit (CDK). Last month, BlackBerry App World™ began featuring BlackBerry […]
