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January 25 — Topics: Developing on webOS — Chuq Von Rospach
Dion Almaer (aka Director of Palm Developer Relations and my boss) has been busy getting his hands dirty in WebOS and is starting to write about it on his blog.
palm-run: package, run, launch and then see log messages talks about one of his early tools for automating some of the recurring tasks in a development cycle, and of course, his code’s available for you to borrow and use (and improve and send back for the rest of the community, of course!)
I am having fun taking my Web skillz and applying them to mobile with webOS. It is obviously important that I learn about the platform. I want to understand the limitations, and get a feel for the SDK so I have opinions on where to take it (Fortunately, the community gives us great feedback,keep it coming!).
As I develop applications I quickly see repetitive tasks that fit into my workflow.
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January 23 — Topics: Developing on webOS — Chuq Von Rospach
Dion Almaer (aka Director of Palm Developer Relations and my boss) has been busy getting his hands dirty in WebOS and is starting to write about it on his blog.
Gearing up your applications to be touched and the horizontal scroll is an interesting look at some of the things you need to consider in taking content designed for the desktop and making it usable in a mobile browser.
An excerpt:
The two biggest challenges I have found so far on the design side have been dealing with the real estate available (screen size) and the touchy feely-ness of the device.
We have been trained on the desktop, thanks to the mouse as our pointer interface, to click lots of buttons. The tactile feedback that we get is the button looking depressed, but that is about it. The mouse has a lot going for it. The fact that I have a set of states due to the fact that there is a difference between having the cursor located somewhere, and having a click on that location is useful. It can be especially useful for discoverability. As a user mouses around you can unveil information “hey, if you click this button X will happen mate!” It also has the nice side effect that your hand can rest on it.
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January 22 — Topics: What's Happening in webOS — Chuq Von Rospach
What’s happening in webOSland is a collection of interesting links to articles and conversations about webOS and webOS development. If you have something you think we might want to include in future postings, you can send it to us at pdc@palm.com or via twitter to @webosdev
- Engadget: reviews the new Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus phones on Verizon.
- As Engadget also notes, we’re going to be at the Game Developer’s Conference this year. Pop by and say hi.
- Lionel Laske: OneNote on iPhone and Palm Pré using Windows Azure
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January 21 — Topics: Developing on webOS — Chuq Von Rospach
Martin Grund sent me a note on his work on PyPalm and I wanted to share it with everyone…. (if you’re building things that make programming on WebOS easier or better, drop us a note at pdc@palm.com and tell us about it!)
Martin says:
I developed a tool around the original Palm SDK tools that eases the development a little bit. It is a command line application that summarizes all available tools under one location and combines them nicely.
As an example there is a command that will package, install, and start the application in one step and without defining which application id to use, because it will look at the appinfo.json file in the directory.
As an addition to the Palm SDK I added support for localization of webOS applications. By defining a configuration entry in the framework_config.json file the application developer defines which languages are supported and when
pypalm localize
is executed it will check for all supported languages and create the necessary strings.json files and will automatically updated them if the key value set is updated.
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January 13 — Topics: What's Happening in webOS — Chuq Von Rospach
What’s happening in webOSland is a collection of interesting links to articles and conversations about webOS and webOS development. If you have something you think we might want to include in future postings, you can send it to us at pdc@palm.com or via twitter to @webosdev
- Ajaxian: Project Appetite, $1m How App program, and more. Boss-man Dion talks about our CES announcements over on the Ajaxian blog.
- WebOS School: now all of our app goodnes available via RSS
- Ajaxian: View Source; how important was it, is it, and will it be?
- Rick Neff: Start here — developing for WebOS.
- William Clausen: Palm Ares Development Tutorial Walkthroughs
- Michael Gartenberg: Good Idea from Palm. Hope it Catches On.
- GigaOM: The Apple App Store Economy (some interesting background info here for webOS Devs…)
- Daniel Beames: WebOS Patches Web Portal Now Online
- House of Palm: Online webOs Discovery Engine and App Store
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January 3 — Topics: Developing on webOS — Chuq Von Rospach
Following the launch of the e-commerce program in the U.S., we are excited to announce that the European e-commerce program is planned to go live in March 2010. The e-commerce program has been tremendously successful in the U.S., with about 600 new paid apps available in just 2 months, and the extension to Europe gives developers a compelling new opportunity to distribute and monetize their apps. In Europe, Palm Pre is currently available in the UK, Ireland, Spain and Germany, providing excellent opportunities for developers to do business in multiple large markets.
The general app catalog model is not new, but what we’re doing with it is. The Palm developer program extends the unique web orientation of the Palm webOS platform, providing developers innovative opportunities to leverage the web as a promotional channel for applications. We offer greater freedom and choice of how to get your applications to market and unparalleled control to promote and grow your business. For developers looking to make money, it’s all about speed, promotion, and reacting to customer feedback. Our platform gives you greater access to customers and faster cycle times to make higher-quality, compelling applications.
If you have an app you’d like to submit for consideration for the European e-commerce program, please send an email to appcatalog.ecommerce.europe@palm.com stating your interest and giving details about your company and your application using the following format:
In the subject of your email put your company followed by the name of your application. For example:
- Subject: My Company – My Application
- In the body of your email, include the following:
- Your Palm webOSdev user name
- Details of person to contact
- Name
- Direct telephone
- Mobile telephone
- Email
- Company Details:
- Address
- Company telephone
- Web page
- A description of your application
- What price (in Euros) you intend to charge for your application when we start the e-commerce program
Our web page at http://developer.palm.com/ covers all the aspects required to make a compelling and successful application. We urge you to get started now so you can get the earliest access and be among the first to get paid for your apps in Europe.
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December 30 — Topics: What's Happening in webOS — Chuq Von Rospach
What’s happening in webOSland is a collection of interesting links to articles and conversations about webOS and webOS development. If you have something you think we might want to include in future postings, you can send it to us at pdn@palm.com or via twitter to @webosdev
