Sometimes you might be out trying to decide whether or not you should head home early for Charlie Rose. It’s a tough call when you don’t know who’s on. When you look at the channel guide on the TV, it doesn’t tell you who’s on that night. So here is the Charlie Rose app for BlackBerry. When you launch it, it tells you who’s on tonight and, if applicable, tomorrow night.
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.
