The app hits this php script and displays the text on the device. I figure if I let the app hit the script for the data, I can manipulate the script later on without asking people to update their version of the application. This app was considerably easier to develop than the Android version, due to BlackBerry’s more direct way of displaying text. When writing your code, I strongly recommend using Eclipse as your development environment. The BlackBerry JDE is utter crap. I’ve heard that JDE plugins for Eclipse are also crap, so you can simply add net_rim_api.jar (located in the lib folder of your BlackBerry JDE Component Package) to your Eclipse Java project as an external Jar file and start coding. Here’s a screenshot of the Charlie Rose app for BlackBerry. When the app is packaged and ready for download, you will find it on Summer Mittens.

Here are two excellent guides to you help build your app:

BlackBerry_Application_Developer_Guide_Volume_1
BlackBerry_Application_Developer_Guide_Volume_2

The app hits this php script and displays the text on the device. I figure if I let the app hit the script for the data, I can manipulate the script later on without asking people to update their version of the application. I spent most of my time scraping together this app and not enough time understanding why it doesn’t work all the time, so by the time I got the script all tidy and in a presentable state, my app wasn’t connecting to the Internet. I’ve read that the Android emulator itself is buggy. Regardless of whether it’s my fault or Android’s, debugging has been basically impossible due to connection issues on the emulator. Here’s a screenshot of one of the early occasions that it worked. When the app is totally finished and ready to go, it’ll be posted on Summer Mittens.