Don't forget -- the Hot Apps Program opens today. The Palm Hot Apps Program rewards developers of the hottest webOS applications with a total of $1 million. The developer of the free webOS application that’s downloaded the most between February 1, 2010, and May 31, 2010 will receive $100,000. The developer of the paid-for webOS app that generates the most revenue during the same period will also receive $100,000. Developers of other top free and paid apps will also ...
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Category Archives: Developing on webOS
Palm Hot Apps Program opens today!
February 1 — Topics: Developing on webOS, The webOS Community — Chuq Von Rospach
palm-run: package, run, launch and then see log
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 ...
Gearing up your applications to be touched and the horizontal scroll
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 ...
PyPalm for WebOS development
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 ...
Developer Program Now Open!
January 7 — Topics: Developing on webOS, The webOS Community — Chuq Von Rospach
A year ago Palm introduced the world to the Pre and webOS. Since then Palm has shipped the Pre and the Pixi, launched with strong carrier partners in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Ireland, and Mexico, and partnered with you for a successful private beta that has resulted in over 1,000 applications that have enriched the Palm experience. Today we're proud to announce the official opening of Palm's worldwide developer program, giving developers around ...
Paid Applications Coming to webOS in Europe
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 ...
Mojo SDK 1.3.5 Now Available
December 29 — Topics: Developing on webOS, The webOS Community — Chuq Von Rospach
In support of the just-released webOS version 1.3.5, Palm has released Mojo Software Development Kit 1.3.5. The new webOS version features the following user enhancements: App Catalog significantly improves the application download experience A user can now download multiple applications simultaneously Downloads continue in the background if the user moves away from the download screen Improved battery life in areas of poor wireless network coverage Complete details of the new webOS release can be found in the Palm Knowledge Base. Here ...
Project Ares Open Beta
December 17 — Topics: Developing on webOS — Chuq Von Rospach
Project Ares beta open to all developers Today we're opening Project Ares to the developer community. Ares takes a radically new approach that brings mobile development right to your browser. Ares is the first complete set of integrated mobile development tools hosted entirely in the browser. It features a drag-and-drop interface builder, a robust code editor, a visual debugger, and built-in source control integration. Ares dramatically lowers the barriers for web developers to jump into mobile development ...
Mojo SDK 1.3.1 Now Available, featuring Pixi emulator support and docs enhancements
November 14 — Topics: Developing on webOS, SDK — Chuq Von Rospach
Now that Palm Pixi is on the verge of shipping, we've released both webOS version 1.3.1 and the new version of the Mojo Software Development Kit. The highlights of the Mojo SDK version 1.3.1 release are the following; Enhanced Pixi support in emulator API to keep screen from auto-dimming Auto-generation of app Help / Support scene Numerous framework doc enhancements Elaborating a bit on the last item, we've heard the developer community's feedback about webOS docs loud and clear. You'll see ...
webOS game development lessons learned: Self Aware at the Sprint Developer Conference
November 5 — Topics: Developing on webOS, The webOS Community — Chuq Von Rospach
Dan Kurtz, the resident web expert at Self Aware Games, joined Palm on-stage at the Sprint Developer Conference to share his team’s lessons learned from having developed two games for webOS, Word Ace and Card Ace. The team came to webOS thinking that first reports made it an attractive platform for some of their gaming ideas, especially if they matched the games to webOS core capabilities, such as always-on web connectivity, easy text entry from a ...