How to create a Blackberry notification message that opens the app like twitter does?

Question

does anyone know what is the actual code to create a local notification in the Blackberry app that has a customized application icon and when the user clicks on the notification in the inbox, it goes directly to a specific page in the application? This is similar to how Twitter for blackberry works, whereby you can be notified of new tweets via your inbox and on clicking on the link brings you to the tweets list in the twitter app. Thanks.

Answer 1

What you're looking for is referred to as Message List integration or sometimes as Message Folders. Note that the name "message folder' is a little misleading. This isn't to create a "folder" that the user has to go into (that threw me off first); rather it creates the message in the inbox as you describe. For the best user experience you'll also want to create an application notification icon.

The package name to concern yourself with is net.rim.blackberry.api.messagelist. You will need to implement ApplicationMessage to do what you've requested.

There is an example of how to do this in the sample source code that ships with the JDE, the project name is "MessageListDemo". All JDEs dating back to (at least) OS 4.5 will have it this sample app. If you want to use the new notification bar integration for OS6, make sure to take a look at the 6.0 MessageListDemo.

Here is a quick overview of the process and bare-bones example. It's for 6.0 but I believe the API they remains the same back to 4.6, and had minor changes from 4.5). The MessageListDemo sample will be better though, as it's more thorough and includes everything you'll need to do -- such as implementing MessageFolderListener to detect when the user opens one of your custom messages.

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