BlackBerry DevelopmentIntroduction

Febiyan RachmanBlackBerry Platform Research Specialist

IT Directorate | Bina NusantaraProviding , Enabling, & Leading in

Why BlackBerry?

• Hello World• Connect to internet using BIS, GPRS, Wi-Fi• Display image, play audio, video• Access camera and capture photo• Get location information using GPS• Display HTML content• BlackBerry push• Invoke system or 3rd application• Save PIM items

What Can You Do?

• E-Statement (2009)• E-Ticket (2009)• Smart Taxi (2009)• Unified Kitchen (2010 – ongoing)• Traffic Monitoring (2010 – ongoing)

Student Research on BlackBerry Platform

• Your telephone, electricity, water, and phone bills delivered right into your BlackBerry.

E-Statement

• One application to tickets order from multiple airlines.

E-Ticket

• Just click “order”, and the system will find the nearest available taxi for you.

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Smart Taxi

• Unified Kitchen• Buy food online using your BlackBerry• “Hey, it’s April 27th! Do you want to buy some

eggs?” pushed to your BlackBerry• Traffic Monitoring• Monitor traffic using your BlackBerry• See traffic info on maps

Unified Kitchen & Traffic Monitoring

• Download Eclipse 3.5 Classic (http://eclipse.org/downloads)

• Download BlackBerry JDE Plug-in 1.1(http://na.blackberry.com/eng/developers/javaappdev/javaplugin.jsp)

How to Start

• Registered in April 2010• Official support from RIM:– Complete application development course modules– Complete lab modules (sample codes included)– Teaching slides– 10 BlackBerry devices (not shipped yet)

BlackBerry Academic Alliance

• Computer you can use for research• Borrowable BlackBerry 8900 with BES Server for

BlackBerry push testing• Nice and helpful people

What You Can Find @ IT Directorate

Questions, anyone?

Febiyan RachmanBlackBerry Platform Research Specialistfrachman@binus.edu | extension 2310