O'Reilly Webcast: Developing Applications for Palm webOS

Mitch Allen, Palm's Software CTO, gives a preview into application development with the Mojo SDK. Hear an insider's perspective on webOS development and get a glimpse into the development environment and toolset for this breakthrough mobile web platform. Interested in developing? Visit http://predevcamp.org or register at http://developers.palm.com. This is a recording of an OReilly webcast presented live on Feb. 25, 2009.

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Science & Technology

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• palm
• o'reilly
• oreilly
• palm pre
• webOS
• mojo
• webcast
• mitch allen
• cto
• application development
• develop
• developing
• sdk
• mojo sdk
• mobile
• web
• platform

[headfood]

It's refreshing to listen to a presenter (Mitch & Paul) that knows what he's talking about. Also, thanks for actually creating an actual application in real-time. Even if it was small. To me an app is an app.

[GargantulaKon]

Palm has publicly released their SDK so developers, like me, will start to make apps for it now. I am trying to make a game now.

[xleo21]

@sifu1979

Native apps don't need application cache , they aren't written in html.

[webjthefirst]

Essentially what "Mojo" is, is a javascript library that allows you to interface with the Pre. If you don't know what that means, you are going to have to learn a few things before you start learning how to specifically programme on the pre. For example, HTML5, CSS and Javascript. If you have a good understanding of these, then you'll be able to start coding for the Pre.

[GargantulaKon]

In addition, having no programming experience might be an issue, as I noticed that the Palm Developer Web site and tutorials assume previous programming experience. Go to W3schools[dot]com and go to the JavaScript tutorial to start learning JavaScript since WebOS works with HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

[GargantulaKon]

Go to developer[dot]palm[dot]com

[portorikan]

Thank you. I have an idea for an app I'd like to make but have no programming experience. Would you be able to point me in the right direction to get started learning and working on it?

[dragonballz0]

People, when the iPhone first came out, it didn't have many apps, remember (years ago. not the new 3rd generation version). So, why the complaints about not many apps available for Palm Pre. Its only been out for about a month now.

Plus, no OS5 apps will work 100% with the Palm Pre's WebOS. Its just like when Mac switched from the motorola processor to Intel based processors, they also had to redo their OS and new software had to be created to run on it (old software is no longer compatible)

[whaleyboy0]

No, Palm have told everyone not to make any more applications.

Just think.