If you’ve been wanting to get involved with game programming, but aren’t quite ready to dive into OpenGL yet, take a look at our exclusive new tutorial on Canvas game development. It was written for us by Frank Zammetti, author of “Practical Palm Pre webOS Projects.”
Frank’s article covers the development, from scratch, of a new [...]
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Developing on webOS, SDK
March 11th 2010 | Posted by Fred
Developing on webOS, PDK, SDK
March 9th 2010 | Posted by Chuq Von Rospach
Today, Palm is excited to announce the public beta release of the Plug-in Developer Kit (PDK), which was announced in January at the Consumer Electronics Show.
The PDK is a new component of the webOS SDK, letting developers use C and C++ alongside the web technologies that power the SDK, and even mix them seamlessly within [...]
Developing on webOS, The webOS Community, What's Happening in webOS, development, gaming
March 4th 2010 | Posted by Chuq Von Rospach
Game developers interested in accelerating profitability of existing and future apps are invited to join Palm to learn more about webOS at two upcoming conferences.
We’ll kick off an exciting week at the Flash Gaming Summit, hosted by Mochi Media, on Monday March 8th at UCSF’s Mission Bay Conference Center. This one-day conference brings together the [...]
App Catalog, Developing on webOS, SDK, What's Happening in webOS, facebook app, webOS
March 3rd 2010 | Posted by Chuq Von Rospach
Today, we’re releasing a new version of our Facebook application for webOS. This application makes it easy to stay connected with your friends, share status updates, upload photos, check out your News Feed, browse your friends’ photo albums and profiles, get your upcoming events, and check your messages wherever you are. The app also integrates with [...]
Developing on webOS
February 11th 2010 | Posted by Chuq Von Rospach
You may be familiar with our Application RSS feeds, a unique feature in the mobile app universe that we added recently. The feeds have given developers unprecedented access to a wider range of customers by allowing website developers to create their own catalogs of App Catalog, Web Distribution, and/or Beta webOS applications. Currently, webOS School, [...]
Developing on webOS, The webOS Community
February 1st 2010 | Posted by Chuq Von Rospach
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 [...]
Developing on webOS
January 25th 2010 | Posted by 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, [...]
Developing on webOS
January 23rd 2010 | Posted by 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 [...]
Developing on webOS
January 21st 2010 | Posted by 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 [...]
Developing on webOS, The webOS Community
January 7th 2010 | Posted by 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 [...]