In the blackberry, I need the ability to start and close applications at certain times of the day. Say start at 8:00am and then close the app at 5:00pm. Is it possible to schedule applications this way in blackberry?
The functionality I am looking for would be similar to say cron in Unix or Windows scheduler. I am not a developer. Is there an app which provides functionality similar to cron or windows scheduler?
You can use ApplicationManager's functionality to schedule the application launch:
ApplicationDescriptor descriptor = ApplicationDescriptor.getCurrentApplicationDescriptor();
ApplicationManager manager = ApplicationManager.getApplicationManager();
// Compute the time when it need to be scheduled
long toberuntime;
manager.scheduleApplication(descriptor ,toberuntime,true);
Also make note of date and timezone changes, as mentioned here