Exercise

Write an application that adds contacts to the BlackBerry® device address book.

Objective

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  • Discover how to create a contact in the handheld address book.

Setup

1. Open rolodex_1.zip
2. In the IDE, open the rolodex.jdw workspace
3. Open the Rolodex.java source file.

Tasks

Add code to the onSave() method to complete the following tasks:

define variables to store the information that the user entered in the UI

verify that the user entered a first and last name

open the handheld address book database

create a new contact with the information that the user entered

save the contact to the address book

reset the UI fields to be empty

Build and run your application in the simulator.

In your application, create and save a contact.

Open the handheld address book and verify that the contact appears.

Check Your Work

Check out rolodex_2.zip

Review

In this exercise, you discovered the following things:

• how to access the handheld address book database
• how to create and add a contact