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• Creating a UI that is consistent with standard BlackBerry UIs
• BlackBerry device user input and navigation
  • Touch screen
  • Trackball or trackpad
    • Trackball sensitivity
    • Trackball movement
  • Trackwheel
  • Keyboard
  • Interaction methods on BlackBerry devices
• Screens
  • Screen classes
  • Manage a drawing area
  • Creating a screen transition
    • Code sample: Creating a screen transition
  • Specifying the orientation and direction of the screen
    • Retrieve the orientation of the touch screen
    • Restrict the touch screen direction
    • Receive notification when the size of the drawable area of the touch screen changes
• Accelerometer
  • Types of accelerometer data
  • Retrieving accelerometer data
  • Retrieve accelerometer data at specific intervals
  • Query the accelerometer when the application is in the foreground
  • Query the accelerometer when the application is in the background
  • Store accelerometer readings in a buffer
  • Retrieve accelerometer readings from a buffer
  • Get the time a reading was taken from the accelerometer
• Events
  • Respond to navigation events
  • Determine the type of input method
  • Touch screen interaction models
  • Responding to touch screen events
    • Respond to system events while the user touches the screen
    • Respond to a user sliding a finger up quickly on the screen
    • Respond to a user sliding a finger down quickly on the screen
    • Respond to a user sliding a finger to the left quickly on the screen
    • Respond to a user sliding a finger to the right quickly on the screen
    • Respond to a user clicking the screen
    • Respond to a user touching the screen twice quickly
    • Respond to a user touching and dragging an item on the screen
    • Respond to a user touching the screen lightly
    • Respond to a scroll action
    • Respond to a user touching the screen in two locations at the same time
  • Pinch gestures
    • Enable pinch gestures
  • Swipe gestures with trackpads
    • Enable swipe gestures that users make on the trackpad
  • Event injection
• Command Framework API
  • Use a command with one UI component
  • Use a command in one or more applications
• Arranging UI components
  • Arrange UI components
  • Creating a grid layout
    • Create a grid layout
      • Code sample: Creating a grid layout
  • Displaying fields on a temporary pair of managers
    • Display a ButtonField and a LabelField temporarily on the top and bottom of the screen
      • Code sample: Displaying a ButtonField and a LabelField temporarily on the top and bottom of the screen
  • Displaying a field at an absolute position on a screen
    • Display a label at an absolute position on the screen
    • Code sample: Displaying a label at an absolute position on the screen
• UI components
  • Add a UI component to a screen
  • Aligning a field to a line of text
  • Buttons
    • Best practice: Implementing buttons
    • Create a button
  • Check boxes
    • Best practice: Implementing check boxes
    • Create a check box
      • Code sample: Creating a check box
  • Create a bitmap
  • Create a custom field
  • Creating a field to display web content
    • Display HTML content in a browser field
      • Code sample: Displaying HTML content in a browser field
    • Display HTML content from a web page in a browser field
      • Code sample: Displaying HTML content from a web page in a browser field
    • Display HTML content from a resource in your application
      • Code sample: Displaying HTML content from a resource in your application
    • Configure a browser field
      • Code sample: Configuring a browser field
    • Send form data to a web address in a browser field
      • Code sample: Sending form data to a web address in a browser field
  • Dialog boxes
    • Best practice: Implementing dialog boxes
    • Create a dialog box
  • Drop-down lists
    • Best practice: Implementing drop-down lists
    • Create a drop-down list
      • Code sample: Creating a drop-down list
  • Labels
    • Best practice: Implementing labels
    • Create a text label
  • Lists and tables
    • Best practice: Implementing lists and tables
    • Create a list box
  • Radio buttons
    • Best practice: Implementing radio buttons
    • Create a radio button
      • Code sample: Creating a radio button
  • Activity indicators and progress indicators
    • Best practice: Implementing activity indicators and progress indicators
    • Indicating activity or task progress
      • Indicate activity
      • Indicate progress
  • Pickers
    • Best practice: Implementing pickers
    • Create a date picker
      • Code sample: Creating a date picker
    • Create a file picker
      • Code sample: Creating a file picker
  • Search
    • Best practice: Implementing search
    • Create a search field
    • Autocomplete text field
      • Create an autocomplete text field from a data set
        • Code sample: Creating an autocomplete field from a data set
      • Create an autocomplete text field from a data source
        • Code sample: Creating an autocomplete field from a data source
      • Using data sources and fields with an autocomplete text field
  • Spin boxes
    • Create a spin box
      • Code sample: Creating a spin box
    • Best practice: Implementing spin boxes
  • Text fields
    • Best practice: Implementing text fields
    • Creating a text field
      • Create a read-only text field that allows formatting
      • Create an editable text field that has no formatting and accepts filters
      • Create an editable text field that allows special characters
      • Create a text field for AutoText
    • Create a date field
    • Create a password field
  • Tree views
    • Best practice: Implementing tree views
    • Create a field to display a tree view
• Images
  • Using encoded images
    • Access an encoded image through an input stream
    • Encode an image
    • Display an encoded image
    • Specify the display size of an encoded image
    • Specify the decoding mode for an image
  • Displaying an image for zooming and panning
    • Code sample: Displaying an image for zooming and panning
    • Display an image for zooming and panning
  • Displaying a row of images for scrolling
    • Code sample: Displaying a row of images for scrolling
    • Display a row of images for scrolling
• Menu items
  • Create a menu
    • Code sample: Creating a menu
  • Best practice: Implementing menus
  • Submenus
    • Best practice: Implementing submenus
    • Create a submenu
    • Code sample: Creating a submenu
  • Pop-up menus
    • Best practice: Implementing pop-up menus
    • About placing items in the pop-up menus
    • Support for legacy context menus
    • Creating a pop-up menu
      • Create a pop-up menu
      • Code sample: Creating a pop-up menu
  • Adding a menu item to a BlackBerry Device Software application
    • Add a menu item to a BlackBerry Device Software application
  • Changing the appearance of a menu
    • Change the appearance of a menu
    • Code sample: Changing the appearance of a menu
• Custom fonts
  • Install and use a custom font in a BlackBerry Java application
  • Code sample: Installing and using a custom font in a BlackBerry Java application
• Spelling checker
  • Add spell check functionality
  • Listen for a spell check event
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