webOS users may shed that oh-so-familiar Palm shopping bag in favor of HP’s new App Catalog.
When developing and pushing the limits of webOS applications, it can be helpful to know some of the boundaries you might run into. Here are a few that have come up in the past for other developers: Maximum size for an ipk file (i.e., the app package): 200MB. You can locally install larger ipks, and you can also grow your application resources after installation by downloading or dynamically creating additional content, but this is the biggest ipk file that can be uploaded to our catalog server.
Palm’s made a few half-baked attempts at wooing developers in the past, like that time in October when it waived the fees and review process for open-source apps (but not App Catalog entries) or when it provided discounted handsets that happened to carry a large carrier-specific ball and chain. This week, Palm’s decided to be a bit more generous — it’s eliminating the $50 App Catalog submission fee entirely and putting every last cent back where it came from. With only 2,684 apps in the store, that’s just $134,200 in total, but symbolically it’s a very welcome gesture, no?
After a disappointing initial effort , Palm has unleashed version 1.1.0 of its webOS Facebook app.
You may have noticed a new option on the “App Info” page when submitting or updating your applications – a place to enter a YouTube URL. With the release of webOS 1.4, your application’s page in the App Catalog can now link to a YouTube video about your app.
webOS 1.3.1 was always destined to come right around the launch of the Pixi , but it’s surprised us by showing its face early. No app catalog bombshells here, but there are a slew of more minor fixes and updates that should make users experience a great deal smoother. Is this the update that finally unlocks access to the GPU and provides the speed boost Pre owners are waiting for / advances the …
Filed under: Software , Palm , webOS After mere hours of App Catalog-stravaganza , the paid apps have been removed for the time being by Palm due to a major flaw in purchase verification. From what we’ve gathered from the seedy underbelly of the internet, an exploit involving building your own dummy application with the same name as a paid application allowed folks to download a free “update” to these falsified shells and score for-purchase apps galore without dropping a cent
Filed under: Software , Palm , webOS Well, things just got interesting. The very evening of the App Catalog’s launch of paid apps , Palm has made a very different kind of announcement: it’s going to let developers skip out on the App Catalog if they so choose
There have been mentions of odd limits on how many apps you can install on your Palm Pre . Now there are whispers that Palm is ignoring this issue entirely
Today it’s official. The first PAID Palm Pre app has it the Palm App Catalog. The new paid app is brought to us by Acceleroto , the app Air Hockey was released today on the Palm Pre.
Yesterday: A steady slog of disappointment for Pre owners, who glumly looked on as their Pres received exactly no updates, no paid apps, and no influx of App Catalog listings—all of which they’d been expecting . What gives? A tipster fed PreCentral a compelling theory about a prospective delay in the App Catalog upgrade and associated WebOS software update, the day before they were set to launch
Filed under: Software , Palm Palm’s App Catalog for the Pre properly launches tomorrow , and right now the question on most peoples’ minds is just how many paid apps will be in there when the doors open. Based on the latest word from the development team, the answer could be quite a lot
