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• Design principles for BlackBerry devices
  • Best practice: Designing applications for BlackBerry devices
  • Creating a UI that is consistent with standard BlackBerry UIs
  • Display specifications for BlackBerry devices
• Considerations for BlackBerry devices with a touch screen
• Interaction
  • Interaction methods on BlackBerry devices
  • Touch screen
    • Best practice: Designing applications for touch screen devices
  • Trackball or trackpad
    • Best practice: Designing applications for trackball or trackpad devices
  • Trackwheel
  • Keyboard
    • Best practice: Designing applications for different types of keyboard
    • QWERTY keyboard
    • SureType keyboard
    • Key functionality
    • Typing indicators
    • Shortcut keys
      • Best practice: Implementing shortcut keys
  • Cursors
    • Best practice: Implementing cursors
  • Highlighting items
    • Best practice: Highlighting items
• Screens
  • Application screens
    • Best practice: Designing application screens
    • Common actions on application screens
  • Banner
    • Best practice: Implementing banners
    • Dimensions for banners on BlackBerry devices
  • 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
    • Picker dialog boxes
      • Best practice: Implementing picker dialog boxes
    • Reminder dialog boxes
    • Status dialog boxes
      • Best practice: Implementing status dialog boxes
  • Progress indicators
    • Best practice: Implementing progress indicators
  • Wizards
    • Best practice: Designing wizards
• Controls
  • Buttons
    • Best practice: Implementing buttons
  • Check boxes
    • Best practice: Implementing check boxes
  • Drop-down lists
    • Best practice: Implementing drop-down lists
  • Labels
    • Best practice: Implementing labels
  • Lists
    • Best practice: Implementing lists
  • Option buttons
    • Best practice: Implementing option buttons
  • Search fields
    • Best practice: Implementing search fields
  • Spin boxes
    • Best practice: Implementing spin boxes
  • Text fields
    • Best practice: Implementing text fields
  • Tree views
    • Best practice: Implementing tree views
• Media
  • Displaying images
    • Best practice: Displaying images
  • Zooming and panning images
    • Best practice: Zooming, panning, and rotating images
  • Displaying information on a screen temporarily
    • Best practice: Displaying information on a screen temporarily
• Menus
  • Best practice: Implementing menus
  • Context menus
    • Best practice: Implementing context menus
• 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
    • Terms to avoid
• Themes
  • Best practice: Designing themes
  • Precision theme
  • Dimension theme
• Icons and indicators
  • Best practice: Designing icons and indicators
  • Precision theme icons and indicators
    • Best practice: Designing icons and indicators for the Precision theme
  • Dimension theme icons and indicators
    • Best practice: Designing icons and indicators for the Dimension theme
  • Default themes and dimensions for screens and 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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