Success! For all you developers hankering to get in on the
webOS and
Pre action (or at least
see the action), your wishes have come true. Today Palm announced on its corporate blog that it would be making the Mojo SDK beta and accompanying documentation available to anyone who is interested...
effective immediately. Furthermore, the company says it will begin taking submissions for new applications in the fall -- so if you're planning on getting something in, it's time to start cranking. For those of you haven't already torrented the
previously available leak of the kit (or just want some real docs), this news should be music to your ears... er, eyes. Well what are you waiting for? Get downloading!
Read - Palm blog post
Read - Palm's developer site
posted July 16th 2009 10:04AM
Finally. Good to see them stepping up their game.
* Also for the people trying this, don't use eclipse you can use any editor you want. And there are much better editors out there with webOS tools.
i wish all those palm applications are compatible with the Pre! a lot of useful progs i used and still still for finance and even games! still hanging on to my sony Clie
@Templarian
What IDE would you use? I cannot stand Eclipse. I've had so many problems with it that my hate burns with the fire of 1000 suns.
I tend to like Xcode or Visual Studio but like to keep my eyes open.
@Dave, I would recommend Komodo Edit (open source works on all platforms). I actually maintain the toolbox for it.
I'll be posting a link to the toolbox, I'm afraid to kill my bandwidth by posting it here.
(A lot of PHP developers / web developers use Komodo IDE, so the transition is easier, which is it's paid version)
I don't need the PreFart app, just give me the vibrator app =P
Hopefully Unity Game Engine releases a Palm Pre add-on. The over work-flow can't be beat.
Should make for some interesting games on the Palm Pre.
Ohhh, baby! A floodgate of fart apps for the Pre.
@mike10010100
You make a good point but you are forgetting one important factor. Comparing Window and OSX is like comparing apples and oranges. Windows for the most part is an open software and can be used by a number of different computer hardware companies. OSX is exclusively for Apple computers- YOU CAN NOT compare these two. Palm and Apple design their software exclusively for their phones- YOU CAN compare these two. Soon Android well be in the same category as Windows where several hardware companies well use their software. For some reason both sides always get this mixed up, Apple is a hardware company before it's a software company so their market share can only be compared with another computer company that exclusively designs their software for their hardware. Since there aren't that many companies out their like this, I guess you can only compare Apple with HP, Dell, etc. not Microsoft which is a software company before it's hardware company. GET IT.
Props to Palm for making a Mac SDK. I was hoping (judging by the leaked exe) that it wouldn't be only for windows. This is great news!
I miss Engadget's polls about who owns a pre and who doesn't cause then I get to see how few people here own one.
Well, my family and I own three Pre's, but I'll admit that we are in the minority. I am, however, consistently amused that iPhone fans tout superiority because of units sold...when the same (or a very similar) set of Apple fans always touted MacOS's supposed technical superiority over Windows...and told their critics that numbers of units sold was not important in that comparison. :)
@Q
So you actually take some joy in seeing a product being used less than another.
Tell us how you feel about how few people here use OSX to Windows. Makes you glow inside, right?
I like to see when they have a poll asking how many people are douches and you are the only one that answers yes.
@Quantumphysics: ... which is something that could probably be said about more or less any product presented here.
I find it more rewarding to have a life, personally.
Zak:
Your 'strawman arguement' argument would hold more merit if you weren't, in fact, the very definition of a strawman fanboy.
Fart apps in 3, 2, 1...
oh, but a fart app is already available for the pre...
Hopefully within months the Pre will bring the same level of apps that Palm OS was sporting.
High hopes indeed, now I just have to wait and see if we get it down under!
avatar staring contest! GO!
Yeah me too, want to get a pre
I'll respond to your post paul because otherwise it will get lost in all those telling you how much a dumb ass you are.
It'l be nice to see what kind of apps the developers come up with, if they treat it more maturely than the iphone, and what kind of demographic the pre realy caters to by the top app download lists. If indeed the number one app on the palm store is the moron test i shall begin my coutndown to december 2012 for i have lost all hope in humanity.
whohooooooooo!!!
Non Apple story + trolling.
Way to be consistent in your supposed dislike of it, Paul.
I'm excited. I've been reading the WebOS book and now I'll have official documentation.
Submissions? Fall?
I thought Palm said people could sideload apps? What's with this submission to Palm crap? That's apple all over?
thats more for the homebrew hackers.
the app catalog is for everyone else
you do realise that the submissions are for the app catalogue? it doesn't say anywhere that you need to submit every app you want on the devices, only that you need to submit the ones you want in the app catalogue...
There's an App Store, and Palm manages all apps available through the App Store, just like Apple's.
There has been no official word from Palm on whether sideloaded apps will be allowed. Most suspect that it will be possible one way or another.
The SDK comes with tools to install via usb. People have already been using the leaked SDK to install homebrew apps.
This just means its official and anyone can submit one for the app catalog now for network download.
Also there is documentation which was missing before.
Android allows sideloading apps, but you still have to submit them to Google to get them in the Android Market. Of course, Google makes no attempt to screen apps that are submitted until some corporate entity makes a complaint, but it's still the same basic idea. If you want your stuff on the official store you have to get it on there somehow, regardless of whether or not sideloading is possible.
I have sideloaded about 10 apps through the usb using the sdk already.
I guess copying one button phone wasn't enough for Palm.. they had to copy the term "game changer" in their claim!
#229,495 in the list of stuff Apple's nutcase fanatics think were invented by Apple, but were not.
"game changer"
@Look_Around_You: Don't forget about #229,496: the List.
The Pre has a lot of buttons. See what you do is, you slide it open ...
Wtf is up with you changing your name as you post anti-Pre stuff? You were Duane, Harry, and Perry at least in this story alone.
And... seriously? It's so bad that I can't tell if you're trying to sarcastically mock Apple fan bois or if you actually ARE an Apple fan boi. Argh, I can't figure it out. Sometimes the parodies are so spot on that it's hard to tell. I mean most people would say anyone stupid enough to think Apple invented the phrase "game changer" has to be mocking how stupid some fan bois are, BUT I have seen people pretty much suggest that using the yin-yang symbol was copying Apple since they used it.
@Duh-wayne
Last time I checked the iPhone had four buttons, plus a ringer silent switch they copied from Palm. The Pre has 39 buttons and the aforementioned switch.
Nice use of Engadget in the official Mojo documentation!
http://developer.palm.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1574
(scroll down half way)
Apparently Engadget has a LOT of ads! yay for ABP
@paul
for at least the sprint version of the pre, sprint will probably make a music store for it later on
the floodgates are open.
They will be literally overwelmed by 1 or 2 people...
Good. The Apple App Store is far too convoluted with crap to be productive, in my opinion. The world doesn't need 10,000 postcard apps, and Apple has a horrible system for promoting apps in its store. Hopefully Palm gets it right.
OTOH - some developers might see Palm as a way of getting noticed. Getting noticed on the iPhone has a Lotto element due to large numbers. Some will see the Pre as opportunity to be the big fish in the little pond. AND - an App discovered on Pre could translate into iPhone attention afterwards.
Well, if the home brew community is anything to judge by, your estimates are a little off.
No, he is not. Who the heck is going to invest time and money on the company that will disappear before completing the app. 1 or 2 is too high! :)
I already downloaded it. I wonder who the other guy will be.
@ Mark
I just downloaded it too. I guess it is just you and me.
@glamajamma
Cool, we've got the market cornered!
"Mojo" The Transformers DOG :-)