Thanks to all of you who made “Got Game?” our best App Hack yet. We had a ton of entries, which made judging a challenge, but also a blast! We saw imaginative designs and control concepts, some great kids apps, and a few nicely rendered game clones. The winner, by a whisker, is… Color Tangle by Will Hankinson Just what you wanted—another puzzle game to steal hours out of your life, right
LAPTOP Magazine (blog) Nokia's Palm Moment Has Arrived LAPTOP Magazine (blog) I'm referring to the introduction of the Palm Pre running webOS.
Today, you could say we’re literally turning the page, changing how people discover apps – and how we showcase developers behind those apps. We are thrilled to introduce HP webOS Pivot, a monthly supplement to the HP webOS App Catalog that brings app discovery to a new level. What’s webOS Pivot all about
The HP TouchPad has arrived, and now developers everywhere can access the webOS 3.0 SDK, available for public download . When you take a step back, you realize that it hasn’t been that long since we released webOS 3.0 SDK into Early Access
The webOS 2.1 SDK has officially exited the Early Access program and is now available for download from the HP webOS Developer Center. Using the 2.1 SDK, you can now: Take advantage of unique webOS features like Just Type, Exhibition and Synergy. Build and distribute hybrid apps, combining HTML, JavaScript and CSS with C/C++.
TFTS (blog) webOS 2.0 Hidden Virtual Keyboard Revealed (Video) GizmoCrave Ever thought that the physical keyboard of your Palm Pre 2 is not enough for the game? Ever wondered if you can just type in something without sliding its … Palm webOS 2.0 software keyboard found IntoMobile Community 'telethon' raises over $8000 for Pre 2 phones for homebrew devs PreCentral.net Hack exposes webOS 2's on-screen keyboard, gets video demo Electronista UberGizmo (blog)
We are proud to announce the winners of our PDK Hot Apps Promotion. Check out the complete list here . This program was a lot of fun, and really raised the bar on the type and quality of apps we offer our Palm Pre and Pixi users.
Ah, standards. Palm and Nokia know what we’re talking about, which is why they support similar methods of developing native Linux apps, namely SDL 1.2. Add on the hardware similarities between the Palm Pre and the N900 (OMAP3430, PowerVR SGX, Open GL ES 2.0 support) and you have a beautiful recipe for cross-platform gaming
Two weeks ago you’d have to pay an Australian importer for a specialized USB key .
Peter Vesterbacka has the coolest title right now. He is “Master Eagle” of Rovio, the gaming company behind the mega-hit Angry Birds (which has topped the App Store for what feels like an eternity even though it is a matter of months!). The game has burst onto webOS this week , and we had the pleasure of sitting down with Peter for a special Palm Developer Podcast chat about both the experience of having a run away hit, and the experience of bringing it to the webOS platform.
MCV NOVA aims for PSP MCV Android and Palm Pre versions are also available. It's logical to assume that the game will be a digital release on PSN, though were it to be published as a ..
Palm changed some system permissions in PDK -powered apps with the release of webOS 1.4.5 to prevent third-party apps from writing to the /media/internal partition of the phone’s storage, which is all well and good — except for the fact that a number of existing apps use it, which means they’re unable to save data post-upgrade. Amazingly, Palm went ahead with the first US rollout on Sprint a month later anyhow, even though not all apps are kosher with the change yet. Good thing the dev community is all over it, then, right?
Tech Pinger (blog) Samsung Epic 4G available August 31 for $249.99 CNET (blog) Anyway, the Samsung Epic is by far Sprint's best phone yet, and I'm glad I can finally throw away this Palm Pre and step up my game. … Sprint Samsung Epic 4G pre -orders start Friday, 13 August ZDNet (blog) all 154 news articles
We have a special audio-only podcast for you today. We are only a couple of weeks into live at HP, and I keep running into great people with a real passion for technology and webOS. Rahul Sood is the founder of Voodoo, a manufacturer of “desktop Ferrari’s”, and the company was acquired by HP in 2006.
