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Part I: Getting Started on BlackBerry Apps
✓ Full: You find a regular QWERTY keyboard on every other BlackBerry
model, as well as on the BlackBerry Storm when in landscape mode.
This is the keyboard I prefer to use because all the keys represent one
character and I don’t have to press a key twice. Figure 1-9 shows the
BlackBerry Storm in landscape mode with its full QWERTY keyboard on
display.
Figure 1-9:
BlackBerry
Storm
rotated
clockwise
to show
the full
keyboard
on a touch-
screen.
Filling Your Toolbox
You are the most important tool in your software development toolkit. Even
when you’re working as part of a team, your expertise is more important
than the other tools you use to create the code. Your skills in using those
tools are what make the tools useful. However, you can’t develop BlackBerry
apps without the right set of software and hardware tools. The following sec-
tions describe the software and hardware you need to gather to start creating
BlackBerry apps.
Downloading the software you need
The following are the major software tools you use to create BlackBerry
applications:
✓ The BlackBerry Java Development Environment (JDE): This integrated
development environment is available from RIM. The JDE includes the
editor, debugger, device simulator, and memory viewer. (See Chapter 2
for the details of choosing a JDE version and downloading it to your PC.)
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