Tutorial: webOS 3.0 Developer Tools

In this video I go over some of the simple, yet powerful development tools used to create webOS applications for the HP TouchPad. This video is designed to demonstrate a sample development workflow and give a brief overview of the steps that go into developing for the webOS SDK. This video IS NOT a tutorial for coding and developing your own webOS apps.

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[natemcintyre]

As requested, here is the full path to the API (as of 07.01.2011): C:\Program Files (x86)\HP webOS\SDK\share\refcode\webos-­framework\enyo\0.10\support\do­cs\api

[zo0o0ot]

Could you include a typed path to the API in the uploader comments?

[natemcintyre]

@zo0o0ot Sure can man. I have added it to the uploader comments, you can also find it here (C:\Program Files (x86)\HP webOS\SDK\share\refcode\webos-­framework\enyo\0.10\support\do­cs\api)

[natemcintyre]

Thanks for the feedback, please let me know if there are any topics that would interest you specifically so that I can take that into account in my future tutorials.

[technoyancovich]

I want to make a words with friends app for Webos hp Touchpad HOW?

[neotimes]

hi,

Do you know if Ares have started support Enjo/Touchpad development yet? I saw on another video that Matthew did in March, 2011, he showed that there is a secret parameter when Ares started that you can type behind the web address, something like "?resolution=1024x768". But it did not work for me.

Thank you for the great video!

[HenrySpivy]

@polczym fannntastic. I was stuck here for a while, until i noticed your comment. Fixed it on my stupid Vista Machine. Thank you!

[polczym]

Some notes for folks using this in a Windows7 environment: To mitigate a java.lang.NullPointerException error, I had to move the working folder to a location where the ACLs were more relaxed. In my case I moved it another drive/folder location. Once I did this and performed a "palm-package ." command, it built correctly.

[polczym]

Very good video Nate. I found it very clear and direct. I am new to mobile/touchPad development (been a .Net web/forms slave for the last 8 years). Looking forward to viewing upcoming posts. Keep up the good work - we appreciate it.

Mark P.

[stri8ted]

Great video. Looking forward to more

[TheJPenguin]

Thanks for the video, I didn't know about AresDebugger so I'll have to check that out.

With regards to palm-log, you don't need to redirect it into a file, you can use the -f switch to turn on following, it will display the output of the log interactively (just like tail -f would).

[zo0o0ot]

Thanks for setting me up on the right track. In Ubuntu, the API docs can be found at /opt/PalmSDK/0.1/share/refcode­/framework/enyo/1.0/support/do­cs/api/