3-Introduction To Bada Toc

Contents
Contents About this Publication Acknowledgments Preface Introduction Overview of the Book What bada Is and Isnt
Just the Facts
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Part I Chapter 1
About bada The Mobile Difference 1.1 The Mobile Context 1.2 Characteristics of Mobile Software
1.2.1 1.2.2 1.2.3 Technological Differences Differences Related to Usability and User Experiences Differences in the Ecosystem
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11 12 13
1.3 Chapter 2
Mobile App Development Best-Practices

What You Will Learn What You Will Need
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19 20
bada Basics
2.1
Your First bada Application

2.1.1 2.1.2 2.1.3 2.1.4 2.1.5 A Skeleton App Project Structure App Metadata Build and Run Standard Output
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21 23 24 25 28
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Contents 2.2 The Application UI

2.2.1 2.2.2 2.2.3 2.2.4 Frames, Forms, and Controls Standard Elements of a Form Indicator Bar, Title Bar, Soft Keys, Option Menu Handling Events Summary A Simple UI Form Properties The Buddy List
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30 31 32 33
2.3
UI Builder
2.3.1 2.3.2 2.3.3
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33 35 38
2.4 2.5 2.6
Hooking Up Your Forms to Your Code The App Icon Becoming Multilingual in Three Easy Steps
2.6.1 2.6.2 2.6.3 Add New Languages Add Text for Each Language Use String Resource IDs in Your Code
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48 49 50
2.7 Chapter 3
From Idea to Published App

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63 63
Beyond the Basics
3.1
Expanding the Application Skeleton

3.1.1 3.1.2 3.1.3 Being Event Driven The Runtime App Lifecycle A Note about Frameworks Control Hierarchy More about UI Controls More about Frame More about Form More about Canvas Graphics Primitives Bitmaps and Images Colours Adding an OptionMenu Adding a Soft Key Populating a List
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65 65 69
3.2
Using the UI Framework

3.2.1 3.2.2 3.2.3 3.2.4
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70 71 75 77
3.3
Using Graphics
3.3.1 3.3.2 3.3.3 3.3.4
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79 80 83 88
3.4
The BuddyFix UI Revisited

3.4.1 3.4.2 3.4.3
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90 93 94
Chapter 4
bada Fundamentals
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97 97
4.1
Architecture Overview
4.1.1 4.1.2 4.1.3 bada Features A Short bada History The Layered Model of the bada Platform
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98 99 101
Contents 4.2 bada Coding Idioms

4.2.1 4.2.2 4.2.3 4.2.4 4.2.5 C++ and bada The Native System Alternatives to Native C++ Pitfalls Native Idioms and Types Tutorials Native Types Using Strings, Characters, and Unicode Using Buffers Collection Classes Using Dates and Times Using Numbers Privileges in bada In Practice
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4.3
bada Basic Functionality

4.3.1 4.3.2 4.3.3 4.3.4 4.3.5 4.3.6
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117 118 121 121 124 124
4.4
Security and the Privilege Model in bada

4.4.1 4.4.2
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126 127
Chapter 5
Exploring bada Services

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129 129
5.1
What are the Services?

5.1.1 5.1.2 5.1.3 5.1.4 5.1.5 Location Service Social Service Content Service Commerce Service Single Sign On Device-to-Server Interaction bada APIs bada Server and Third-Party Server Interaction with Open APIs Location as a Service Social Network Service All Connected Content Service Content is King Commerce Service Make Your Own Business Component Setup
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130 130 131 132 132
5.2
How It Works
5.2.1 5.2.2
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132 133
5.3
Services in Detail
5.3.1 5.3.2 5.3.3 5.3.4 5.3.5
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135 140 147 150 153
Chapter 6
bada Namespaces
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157 158
6.1 6.2 6.3
using Directives and Declarations How This Chapter Is Organised Namespaces in Detail
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Contents Part II Group 1 Recipes Fundamentals Recipe 1.1: Save to and Restore from the Registry
Problem Description The Recipe Hints, Pitfalls and Related Topics
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Recipe 1.2: Use Error Handling in bada

Problem Description The Recipe
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217 217
Recipe 1.3: Use Two-phase Construction and Leak-free Destruction

Problem Description The Recipe Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics
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224 224 228
Recipe 1.4: Create an AppControl to Interact with a Base Application

Problem Description The Recipe Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics Related Recipe
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228 228 235 236
Recipe 1.5: Create and Use a Timer

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236 236 239 239
Recipe 1.6: Parse XML Content

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239 239 243 243
Recipe 1.7: Get Dates and Times

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Group 2
UI Basics Recipe 2.1: Add a Form to a Frame-based App

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251 251 255
Recipe 2.2: Add Soft Keys to a Form and Get Actions

Problem Description The Recipe Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics Related Recipes
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255 255 258 258
Contents Recipe 2.3: Add an Options Menu to a Form and Get User Selections
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258 258 263 263
Recipe 2.4: Add a Simple Button Control to a Form

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263 264 268 269
Recipe 2.5: Pop Up a Message Box with Dismiss

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269 269 270
Recipe 2.6: Pop Up a Keypad and Get Input from It

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Recipe 2.7: Get Touch Events

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Recipe 2.8: Get Multi-touch Events

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286 286 290 290
Recipe 2.9: Create a Custom List Control

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Recipe 2.10: Implement a Form Manager

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Recipe 2.11: Get Soft Key and Hard Key Events

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Contents Recipe 2.12: Use a Web Control

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Group 3
Extended UI and Sensors Recipe 3.1: Use Gesture Input and Motion UI
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Recipe 3.2: Get Device Orientation from the Magnetometer (Compass)

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Recipe 3.3: Get Readings from the Tilt Sensor

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Recipe 3.4: Detect a Face from Video

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Recipe 3.5: Recognise a Face

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Group 4
Multimedia Content Recipe 4.1: Use Bitmaps and Images

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347 347 351 351
Recipe 4.2: Draw Graphics Primitives

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Recipe 4.3: Open the Camera and Get and Display Live Frames
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Contents
Hints, Pitfalls, and Related Topics Related Recipes 360 360
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Recipe 4.4: Use an Overlay Panel

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Recipe 4.5: Record Audio from the Microphone or Audio Input Device
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Recipe 4.6: Play a Sound

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Group 5
Networking Recipe 5.1: Create a Network Connection

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Recipe 5.2: Use Secure Sockets

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Recipe 5.3: Establish Normal and Pipeline Connection Modes for HTTP Sessions
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Recipe 5.4: Use Bluetooth Profiles

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Recipe 5.5: Use Non-blocking and Blocking TCP and UDP Sockets
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Recipe 5.6: Set Up an Ad Hoc Wi-Fi Network

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Recipe 5.7: Query a DNS Server

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Contents Group 6 Maps and Location 6.1 Get Geographic Data from a Provider and Show a Map
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411 411 413
6.2 React to Location Changes

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Group 7
Services and Social Networking 7.1 Create Content on the bada Server
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7.2 Use the bada SNS Gateway to Access a Social Network Service such as Facebook
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7.3 Send a Tweet from Twitter

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7.4 Upload a Photo to Facebook

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7.5 Get Notes from Facebook using RESTful APIs

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7.6 Use the BuddyService to Add a Buddy

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Contents Part III Appendices 451 453 459 459 460 463 464 465
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Appendix A Downloading and Installing the bada SDK Appendix B A UML Primer B.1 Class Diagrams B.2 Sequence Diagrams Appendix C A Software Engineering Model for Mobile App Development Some Mobile Software Engineering Best-practices Phase 1: Feasibility and Economic Efficiency Analysis
Stage 1.1: Requirements Engineering Stage 1.2: Design Drafting Stage 1.3: Early Prototyping Stage 1.4: User Acceptance Testing
Phase 2: Software Product Realisation

Stage 2.1: Requirements Reviewing Stage 2.2: Design Detailing Stage 2.3: Defining Test Cases Stage 2.4: Programming Stage 2.5: Testing Stage 2.6: User Acceptance Testing
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Phase 3: Distribution
Stage 3.1: Marketing Stage 3.2: Preparing for Deployment Stage 3.3: Product Maintainance
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Index
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Contents

vii xvii xix xxi 1 1 2

Mobile App Development Best-Practices

Your First bada Application

Contents 2.2 The Application UI

2.4 2.5 2.6

From Idea to Published App

Beyond the Basics

Expanding the Application Skeleton

Using the UI Framework

The BuddyFix UI Revisited

Contents 4.2 bada Coding Idioms

bada Basic Functionality

Security and the Privilege Model in bada

Exploring bada Services

What are the Services?

6.1 6.2 6.3

158 159 160

211 213 213

Recipe 1.2: Use Error Handling in bada

Recipe 1.3: Use Two-phase Construction and Leak-free Destruction

Recipe 1.4: Create an AppControl to Interact with a Base Application

Recipe 1.5: Create and Use a Timer

Recipe 1.6: Parse XML Content

Recipe 1.7: Get Dates and Times

UI Basics Recipe 2.1: Add a Form to a Frame-based App

Recipe 2.2: Add Soft Keys to a Form and Get Actions

Recipe 2.4: Add a Simple Button Control to a Form

Recipe 2.5: Pop Up a Message Box with Dismiss

Recipe 2.6: Pop Up a Keypad and Get Input from It

Recipe 2.7: Get Touch Events

Recipe 2.8: Get Multi-touch Events

Recipe 2.9: Create a Custom List Control

Recipe 2.10: Implement a Form Manager

Recipe 2.11: Get Soft Key and Hard Key Events

Contents Recipe 2.12: Use a Web Control

Recipe 3.2: Get Device Orientation from the Magnetometer (Compass)

Recipe 3.3: Get Readings from the Tilt Sensor

Recipe 3.4: Detect a Face from Video

Recipe 3.5: Recognise a Face

Multimedia Content Recipe 4.1: Use Bitmaps and Images

Recipe 4.2: Draw Graphics Primitives

Recipe 4.4: Use an Overlay Panel

Recipe 4.6: Play a Sound

Networking Recipe 5.1: Create a Network Connection

Recipe 5.2: Use Secure Sockets

Recipe 5.4: Use Bluetooth Profiles

Recipe 5.6: Set Up an Ad Hoc Wi-Fi Network

Recipe 5.7: Query a DNS Server

6.2 React to Location Changes

7.3 Send a Tweet from Twitter

7.4 Upload a Photo to Facebook

7.5 Get Notes from Facebook using RESTful APIs

7.6 Use the BuddyService to Add a Buddy

Phase 2: Software Product Realisation

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