Developer Tips and Tricks

We wanted to provide one tip for each of the different tools outlined in the featured story.

BlackBerry® Plug-in for Microsoft® Visual Studio® 1.2
Use profiling to optimize the amount of data transferred and length of download time for your mobile web pages. Profiling will ensure that your web page is optimized for mobile consumption.
BlackBerry Web Development Plug-in for Eclipse™ 1.0
Review AJAX request and response data by setting debug breakpoints directly in JavaScript® source code
BlackBerry® JDE Plug-in for Eclipse™
Simulate the user experience of your application for a broad range of BlackBerry smartphone simulators from your desktop. You can download any simulator directly from our webpage to match your customer’s environment. Click here to start your download.
BlackBerry® Java® Development Environment (BlackBerry JDE)
Leverage the Objects window to understand what objects are used within your application to improve the performance of your application when running on the device. You can use the window for finding memory leaks and reducing garbage collection.
Bonus Tip: Create applications that use the web services available in the BlackBerry Administration API to manage an organization’s BlackBerry® Enterprise Server components. BlackBerry Administration API enables secure programmatic execution of common administrative tasks such as managing users and groups, BlackBerry smartphones , email and folder redirection, and IT policy assignments. To learn more view product documentation.

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