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• Getting started
  • Designing applications for BlackBerry devices
    • Best practice: Designing applications for BlackBerry devices
  • Three key principles of BlackBerry application design
  • Constraints of designing for mobile devices
  • Designing and developing for different BlackBerry devices and software versions
  • Display specifications and interaction methods for BlackBerry devices
  • Creating a UI that is consistent with standard BlackBerry UIs
• Stages of application design
  • Stage 1: Understanding the product requirements and user goals
    • Best practice: Understanding the product requirements and user goals
  • Stage 2: Developing the concepts and building the workflow
    • Best practice: Developing the concepts and building the workflow
  • Stage 3: Organizing content on the screen
    • Best practice: Organizing content on the screen
  • Stage 4: Incorporating visual design
    • Best practice: Incorporating visual design
• Interactions
  • Trackpad
    • Best practice: Implementing trackpad actions
  • Touch screen
    • Best practice: Implementing touch screen actions
  • Keyboard
    • Best practice: Designing applications for different types of keyboards
    • Full keyboard
    • Reduced keyboard
    • Key functionality
    • Typing indicators
    • Shortcut keys
      • Best practice: Implementing shortcut keys
• Strategies
  • Setting focus and highlighting items
    • Best practice: Setting focus and highlighting items
  • Scrolling and panning
  • Zooming
    • Best practice: Zooming
  • Displaying images
    • Best practice: Displaying images
  • Displaying information on a screen temporarily
    • Best practice: Displaying information on a screen temporarily
  • Screen transitions
• Containers
  • Application screens
    • Best practice: Designing application screens
  • Dialog boxes
    • Best practice: Implementing dialog boxes
    • Alert dialog boxes
      • Best practice: Implementing alert dialog boxes
    • Information dialog boxes
      • Best practice: Implementing information dialog boxes
    • Input dialog boxes
      • Best practice: Implementing input dialog boxes
    • Inquiry dialog boxes
      • Best practice: Implementing inquiry dialog boxes
    • Reminder dialog boxes
    • Status dialog boxes
      • Best practice: Implementing status dialog boxes
  • Banner and title bars
    • Best practice: Implementing title bars
  • Pane manager
    • Best practice: Implementing pane managers
• Components
  • Text fields
    • Labels
      • Best practice: Implementing labels
    • Text fields
      • Best practice: Implementing text fields
    • Search
      • Best practice: Implementing search
  • Choice fields
    • Check boxes
      • Best practice: Implementing check boxes
    • Drop-down lists
      • Best practice: Implementing drop-down lists
    • Radio buttons
      • Best practice: Implementing radio buttons
    • Pickers
      • Best practice: Implementing pickers
    • Spin boxes
      • Best practice: Implementing spin boxes
    • Tree views
      • Best practice: Implementing tree views
  • Buttons
    • Best practice: Implementing buttons
  • Activity indicators and progress indicators
    • Best practice: Implementing activity indicators and progress indicators
  • Lists and tables
    • Best practice: Implementing lists and tables
• Menus and toolbars
  • Full menus
    • Best practice: Implementing full menus
  • Submenus
    • Best practice: Implementing submenus
  • Pop-up menus
    • Best practice: Implementing pop-up menus
  • Toolbars
    • Best practice: Implementing toolbars
• Text
  • Fonts
    • Best practice: Fonts
  • Writing conventions
    • Best practice: Punctuation
    • Best practice: Capitalization
    • Best practice: Abbreviations and acronyms
    • Product names and trademarks
    • Trademark symbols and UI elements
    • Logos
    • Best practice: Terminology
    • Word list
• Themes
  • Best practice: Designing themes
• Icons and indicators
  • Best practice: Designing icons and indicators
  • BlackBerry 6 theme icons and indicators
    • Best practice: Designing icons and indicators for the BlackBerry 6 theme
  • Dimensions for indicators on BlackBerry devices
  • Default themes and dimensions for application icons on BlackBerry devices
• Sound
  • Best practice: Implementing sound
• Localization
  • Best practice: Designing applications for different languages and regions
  • Best practice: Coding for different languages and regions
  • Best practice: Writing for different languages and regions
• Accessibility
  • Best practice: Designing accessible applications
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