Palm's web-based Ares SDK goes gold

Four solid months after going into open beta, Palm's entirely web-based SDK for webOS -- the so-called Ares SDK -- has reached version 1.0, bringing "lots and lots" of new features along for the ride. Biggies include UI-less components that add functionality to your application, in-line help, undo and copy / paste functionality (for the SDK, that is), and a plug-and-play multitouch-enabled Google Maps widget that you can drop into your own screens. Even if you don't own a Pre and have no intention of commercializing a webOS app, it sounds like a blast to screw around with -- and considering how important the third-party ecosystem is for Palm right now, we'd say that's a good thing. Interested parties can get set up with the gold build right now.

[rdrunner Posted Apr 19th 2010 6:55PM]

Palm better find a buyer soon!!

[young hov 718 Posted Apr 19th 2010 6:55PM]

Palm C40 were Art Thou?

[rdrunner Posted Apr 19th 2010 6:56PM]

Palm needs a pilot, soon!

[Munier Posted Apr 19th 2010 8:27PM]

@rdrunner Nice!

[young hov 718 Posted Apr 19th 2010 6:57PM]

Palm C40 were Art Thou?

[who Posted Apr 19th 2010 7:05PM]

You still need to know code for this, right?

[chadleychad Posted Apr 19th 2010 7:16PM]

It would be so good if Apple could develop an iPhone App creator like this; something similar to what they did with iWeb!!!!!

[darwiniandude Posted Apr 19th 2010 7:24PM]

@(Unverified) That's what I thought Apple would do originally. When they launched without an SDK, I thought Apple would modify Dashcode (look it up) for the sold purpose of easy iPhone app development.

Hopefully they still do.

[DoctarPeppar Posted Apr 19th 2010 10:31PM]

@(Unverified)
You read my mind. Apples developer tools for the i*devices are bogus...makes it nearly impossible to code an app unless you meet their requirements just for the god damn SDK to run on your comp...didn't they stop supporting PPC macs, right?

[jstrickb Posted Apr 19th 2010 7:20PM]

Palm,
If you don't have a WVGA QWERTY to show me by the time EVO is in stores, this early Pre adopter may jumping ship. Please don't make me do it!

[obobo Posted Apr 19th 2010 7:30PM]

...and nobody cares...

[Kamalot Posted Apr 19th 2010 7:37PM]

@obobo

You must be nobody

[barkerja Posted Apr 19th 2010 7:34PM]

Wasn't WYSIWYG editors cool back in like ... 1995?

[Ali Scissons Posted Apr 19th 2010 11:04PM]

@barkerja

Sure, for standard web pages that have hundreds of different kinds of platforms.

Ares, on the other hand, is just supports one. That and app developers code UI by hand for only two reasons: to learn the UI system and to correct any minor abnormalities that can't be solved through the GUI editor.

[alext Posted Apr 19th 2010 7:36PM]

now where is HTC cavalry?

[maythetechbewithyou Posted Apr 19th 2010 8:05PM]

If it is free to dev for I will see what I can do.

[fizix Posted Apr 19th 2010 9:32PM]

I know HTML, CSS, and Javascript.

Sign me up.

Go Palm Go!!!

[Johnny Rockets Posted Apr 20th 2010 1:09AM]

Stupid.

Why did this need to be released when Palm's stock is circling $0 amidst buyout rumors?

Imagine if this was released in January or February... of 2009.

Palm would have taken off like a ROCKET.

But no... They have to do everything wrong.

Looks like yet another thing to add on to the Survival Guide

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/palm-this-is-your-survival-guide/

Releasing developer tools late.

Make that really really really really really really late.

[Cin Posted Apr 20th 2010 2:24AM]

@Johnny Rockets
"Imagine if this was released in January or February... of 2009.

Palm would have taken off like a ROCKET.

But no... They have to do everything wrong."

Yeah! And if they're released the Pre in 2001 they'd be doing great! It's clearly their fault for choosing to actually develop things in reality, where products take time to make, as opposed to their imaginations.


"Why did this need to be released when Palm's stock is circling $0 amidst buyout rumors?"

Your knowledge of finance is almost as bad as your knowledge of management and comprehension of reality. Buyout rumors raise stock prices, not reduce it. And it's currently hovering around the $5 mark depending on when you look at it, which is quite a ways from 0 in the stock market.

[Naris Posted Apr 20th 2010 4:56PM]

@Cin

Not to mention the fact that, just before they announced WebOS their stock was hovering over $1, which is a fifth of what it is now.

[jareth86 Posted Apr 20th 2010 1:57AM]

Where was this thing a year ago?! Too little too late...

[Cin Posted Apr 20th 2010 2:29AM]

@jareth86
Under development?!?!

Palm does not have infinite resources. They do not have Google's cash of manpower. They only have about... I think 1000 employees if you include sales, support, etc? The number of actual developers they have is pretty small, especially compared to their competitors. The fact that they've done as well as they have thus far, and added more to their OS in the last year than nearly any of the competition is nothing short of amazing.

[Reaper man Posted Apr 20th 2010 5:45AM]

this should be tagged as OSX ;/