Open source Blackberry Projects which help development [closed]

Question

You guys know any open source Blackberry applications. IMO looking at source code of good projects helps learn the system better, faster and not to mention reduces development time. Is there a recommended list of such projects or if not, can we build such a list? I think it will really be useful to other developers.

Answer 1

My apologize for delay in answer. Here are links for useful Java BB apps, libraries and code:

1. Wordpress for BB
2. LogicMail - alternate mail client
3. Facebook SDK for BB - FB SDK not from RIM nor FB
4. Wireless music sync app
5. BB Tracker - quite old one
6. BB tools - also quite old one

I'm not saying that code from there is standard (For me the LogicMail is most acceptable) but there are plenty of useful code about networking, storage, gps and ui. As well please take in attention advanced UI samples from RIM mentioned by @Nate

Answer 2

I only have time to post one link here, but this is one I would definitely recommend for all beginners, because it helps understand UI development, which (in my opinion) is definitely more difficult to learn on BlackBerry versus other mobile platforms (especially Android or iOS).

See information about it on BlackBerry's site here

or the github repository here

If you're using the legacy BlackBerry Java APIs (OS <= 7), you will certainly wind up subclassing the built-in RIM UI classes, to add functionality of your own. There's a good chance that many of the things you want to do are already done, or at least started, in this Advanced UI project.