For anyone looking for the url for step 2, its http://www.json.org/java/org.json.me.zip

I immediately get an "illegal state exception" when running this... any ideas? Thanks.

I don't recall ever seeing that error Nik ... any other clues you have?

Hi Dave,

Yes - it appears to be throwing it when processing the title of the document. See stack trace below. I've commented that bit out in the meantime, and its running, so I'm encouraged.

Currently fighting the rubbish built in browser to try and make an app that's worth using :-\




Thread [phonegap(188)id=1429553152] (Suspended (exception IllegalStateException))
UiEngineImpl.assertHaveEventLock() line: 3404
VerticalFieldManager(Field).assertHaveEventLock() line: 5699
VerticalFieldManager(Field).applyTheme() line: 993
VerticalFieldManager(Manager).applyTheme() line: 481
TitleStatusManager(Manager).insertInternal(Field, int) line: 1775
TitleStatusManager.setTitle(Field) line: 874
TitleStatusManager.setTitle(String) line: 889
MainScreen.setTitle(String) line: 469
PhoneGap.eventOccurred(Event) line: 158
HTMLBrowserContent.setTitle(String) line: 271
HTMLTitle.setText(String) line: 37
RHTMLRenderer(HTMLBaseRenderer).handleAccumulatingObject(String) line: 2890
RHTMLRenderer(HTMLBaseRenderer).characters(String) line: 2924
RHTMLRenderer.parseData() line: 572
RHTMLRenderer(HTMLBaseRenderer).finishProcessingData() line: 854
HTMLBrowserContent(BrowserContentImpl).finishLoading() line: 694
HTMLBrowserContent.finishLoading() line: 463
BrowserContentManager.handleNewContent() line: 93
BrowserContentManager.setContent(HttpConnection, RenderingApplication, Event) line: 57
PhoneGap.processConnection(HttpConnection, Event) line: 115
PrimaryResourceFetchThread.run() line: 703

That's strange. I would be keen to see if you can build an app worth using in that browser :)

I am hoping that the next bold / storm will have it updated so that I can get back to working on BlackBerry.

URL for 1) is http://na.blackberry.com/eng/developers/javaappdev/javaeclipseplug.jsp

I have got this working on the emulator - any ideas how to change the app name / icon?

I'm questioning what to do at step 9. Is that html file available somewhere for download? I have the app running in JDE but just get a white screen.

I am now getting the IllegalStateException as described by Nik above. Could someone spell out the specific work around for this? Thanks :)

Here's the hack I did :

case Event.EVENT_BROWSER_CONTENT_CHANGED: {

// browser field title might have changed update title
BrowserContentChangedEvent browserContentChangedEvent = (BrowserContentChangedEvent) event;

if (browserContentChangedEvent.getSource() instanceof BrowserContent) {
BrowserContent browserField = (BrowserContent) browserContentChangedEvent.getSource();
String newTitle = browserField.getTitle();
if (newTitle != null) {
//Nik - removed this bit
//_mainScreen.setTitle(newTitle);
}
}

break;

}

Can somebody put working examples of using phonegap in BlackBerry... I have the same problems as Chuck Brandt.
I have the app running in JDE but just get a white screen. Where should i put my html file?

According to the documentation.
There are two ways for background threads to access the UI from outside the main event-handling or UI drawing code:

* acquire and hold the event lock
* use invokeLater() or invokeAndWait() to run on the event dispatch thread

so I used the following fix:
synchronized(this.getEventLock()) {
_browserContentManager.setContent(connection, this, e);
System.out.println("The content of the web page has been set.");
}
IT worked for me.

I cannot realy understand, has somebody created a correct PhoneGap BB application using new JDE, unfortunantly there are no examples ow working applications.
But I am new in Blackberry developing, so now i can`t understand how to resolve exceptions in PhoneGap application(

Hi Egor,
If you can post the error that u have got. We can assist you.
Yes.. PhoneGap is working properly for me with the above fix that I mentioned in the previous comment.

Post the difficulties you are facing to help you out.
cya

Are there other tutorials on developing BlackBerry apps using PhoneGap?

Hi could anyone help me in step5 and step6. Should I paste the whole extracted phonegap folder or just some selected folder and in which folder of phonegap project(main folder or under src or somewhere else, I would really appreciate if someone could help me.

Step5: Copy all the extracted files and folders.
5.1: Goto your eclipse project->src and paste here.

Step6: Copy "org" folder.
6.1: Goto your eclipse project and paste here.

Step9: ??

in PhoneGap.java "_url = htttp://..."

Wot would be the url?

Its not working, cud anyone please explain me how to proceed after step 4?
Thank you.

I wonder if it possible to use as _url "http://localhost". And where should i put folder "/www" (in blackbery device and in file system for simulator), if i want to use _url="http://localhost/www/index.htm"

Hi everyone,
Is phonegap is stable enough to use it in professional applications or it is still in the building process?
Actually I've to develop a mobile version of a web application that could ideally run on Blackberry, iphone, Android etc. So i am in decision making process weather to go for phonegap or develop separately for blackbery, iphone ...

Any comments....

Look forward for suggestion!

Cheers !

Can you please post the steps you took to create this web application you created and possibly post a sample. I am interested in knowing the details.

YES!!! I`VE Done this. There are a possibility how to browse local pages in Phonegap application.
There are a few steps to do this:

1) You must include all html, css pages and images to your project in special folder. I created folder www and put all items there.
To check that all files included you can, in file PhoneGap.jdp. Just open it in NotePad. There must be text like this:
[Files
www\aclu_logo.png
www\Donations_Religion.html
www\Icon.png
www\index.html
www\Non-Citizens.html - files you want to include
www\Questioning.html
www\Stops_Arrests.html
www\style.css
]

2) Change file Utilities Java:
public static HttpConnection makeConnection(String url, HttpHeaders requestHeaders, byte[] postData) {

HttpConnection conn = null;
OutputStream out = null;
String newUrl;

try
{
if ( url.indexOf("data://") != -1)
url = url.substring(url.lastIndexOf('/') + 1);

if ( url.indexOf("http://") == -1)
url = "/www/".concat(url);

InputStream input = Application.class.getResourceAsStream(url);

if (input == null)
System.out.println("Cannot connect to page ".concat(url));

DataBuffer buffer = new DataBuffer();
byte[] temp = new byte[ 1024 ];
for( ;; )
{
int bytesRead = input.read( temp );
if( bytesRead == -1 )
{ break;}

buffer.write( temp, 0, bytesRead );
}

ByteArrayOutputStream output = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
Base64OutputStream boutput = new Base64OutputStream( output );
output.write( "data:text/html;base64,".getBytes() );
boutput.write( buffer.getArray() );
boutput.flush();
boutput.close();
output.flush();
output.close();

newUrl = output.toString();
url = newUrl;
}
catch (Exception E){
}

After that, when change value _url to ="index.html". Program will try to open file www/index.html

Hi all

I have been trying to get the geo location using phonegap in Blackberry simulator for last two days but no success. I tried the example given on iphone page for geolocation but comes up with error that GAP is not supported. More analysis give that __gap variable used in gap.js file is not defined. I cannot find any definition of that variable in any of js files.

I also tried to use geolocation.js file directly and called Geolocation.prototype.getCurrentPosition method directly but in there it says that phonegap is not defined on line 2 as follows
document.cookie = 'bb_command={command:'+phonegap.LOCATION+'}';

So any help or a working example for using geolocation on blackberry is much appreciated.

Thank you.

hola
I've been trying to install phonegap but dont know whats going wrong.

When i hit run on elcipse, the simulator runs but i dont see the application. I dont see any errors neither... I dont see any compiler message ...
I checked my path variable i have the jdk on first entry, i followed the instructions given in here with no success.

Two weeks ago when I started working with the blackberrys I thought the hardest thing was going to be learning the Java language, but I see that the complication is with the JDEs.

Please help, Thanks,

I am beginning to phonegap using the source code for blackberry set everything as indicated in the manual but when I try to run in the emulator displays this error (unable to start simulator. Check that the file exist. (Java.io.IOException: ... ....) what is MDS proxy .... why i need that to run my apps ?

wow 2 weeks and any answers

Is this Blackberry project active? Followed the instructions but haven't been able to run this sample.

Wilmer,
you need MDS running on the simulator so that you can actually browse the web (I use it to call my webservice). I'm not sure what will happen once deployed to a device, I'm hoping it wont be needed, well really I'm just hoping it works...

Has anyone tried to call a .Net webservice (.asmx) in order to get data?
I'm getting a pretty weird return of my simple service (here is what my service returns):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<string xmlns="http://tempuri.org/">Hello World</string>

And this is what the NetworkCommand.java code does to it:
\u0003\u0001j string\u0000xmlns\u0000X-RIM-TBL:AAAAAA==\u0000Ä\u0000\u0004\u0007\u0003http://tempuri.org/\u0000\u0001\u0003Hello World\u0000\u0001

I'm not sure how to parse that string, I try and treat it like XML, but when I do that all my calls (using jquery) come back empty.

Anyone get this phoneGap BB working with webservices?

Brian,

I will follow up with you in more detail via mail, but a few answers to some of your questions are worth noting on the wiki.

BlackBerries communicate with the internet in a variety of ways. The native BlackBerry browser uses its own specific network route/protocol (can't remember exactly what it's called - BlackBerry Internet Service, I think?). PhoneGap applications use direct TCP/IP connections (or at least this type of connection is opened up). In some cases, all requests and responses go through a RIM 'gateway' server, where some transcoding of the HTTP data is done. Check this KB article out: http://www.blackberry.com/knowledgecenterpublic/livelink.exe/fetch/2000/348583/800451/800563/Support_-_HTTP_transmits_incorrectly_when_User-Agent_includes__BlackBerry_.html?nodeid=1367249&vernum=0 . It suggests two things: 1) remove 'BlackBerry' from the user-agent string in the HTTP request header and 2) Add another RIM-specific header to inform the RIM gateway server not to do any transcoding of the data (bottom of the article). I think the second suggestion should help out, and I'll also add it to the BlackBerry code base. I haven't encountered this particular problem before, but with so many devices and so many forms of communication on the phone (also corporate vs. regular phones), there are a lot of little things to work out.

Secondly, and maybe more importantly, in my experience jQuery *will not work* with BlackBerry OS v4.7 and below. Once the newly-announced WebKit browser becomes standard in BlackBerries (which was released announced at the BlackBerry Developer Conference), I am hoping this problem will go away.

Fil, thanks for the info!..I'm going to read the KB article now...interesting about jquery as I'm able to use it (via the simulator) running 4.7 and 4.6...can't wait for 5.0!

Brian, if you can, test it out on a device - there's a big gap between simulator and the device, for all mobile platforms!