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Bada tutorial: Meet the Containers

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Hmm... "Meet the Container !" :O What will be going on today!! :) Yes, today we will be looking on to all the containers. Because whatever application you develop you must need to deal with various types of containers. After all containers are the things that will hold all our component and show those on the screen.  Lets look at the following picture.  A total black window and a button saying "OK". At first lets find out how many components are there. What do you say? Well would you say like following? A dark black window. A button. is there anything else? Ok, lets look at the following one: ( Focus on "Frame" and "Form" only ) So you identified the "Frame" and "Form", right ? ( encircled ).  Yes these two are the most common companion for any BADA app developer. As you can see, your application must have a (only one) Frame on the very base. And then you need Form . An application can have multiple forms . Say yo

Samsung BADA, Starting with sample application

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Hurrayh!! You downloaded all the required stuffs right? ( Didnt get my point :( ? Please refer to the earlier post  ;) .  Hope you already installed the IDE with language packs. If so just run the IDE. Specify your BADA workspace where all your projects are supposed be resided. And continue... So! Now we are totally ready to go for the sample applications right? Its really easy and fun at the same time. Hope the BADA IDE is running behind your web browser. Now all you need to do is follow the steps given here to run some sample applications. Playing with these applications will make you familiar with this IDE, as well as give you a brief idea over the BADA SDK. Anyway, lets stop my tattling and start working. 1. Open the window of BADA SDK samples window. Go to “Window > Show view > Other”. This will show you a dialog like following. Select Bada SDK samples from this dialog. Click OK. The window of sample application list is opened. 2. Right click on any application ( Sa

Samsung BADA, A new era of Samsung smart phones begins

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Yes! Samsung presenting a new mobile OS for the smart phones. This is BADA. You can take a look at the press release of BADA . This one is developed on top of the Samsung's legacy operating systems, but with a target for providing high end smart phone features. Besides, this is open for developers in the whole world. Just register in developer.bada.com and get joined with BADA community. Develop your smart application for your Samsung Smart phones and let others have fun with the excellent BADA applications. As I am developing BADA applications, I will try to keep a focus on BADA app development in my following series of blogs. Today here is a very basic introduction with BADA. So lets start... Start with the community: Here is the BADA developer website (  http://developer.bada.com ). Register there and get connected with lots of resources on BADA and also find very active BADA forums to share your learnings, problems, suggestions and recommendations. Find the forums here