This week’s App Hack will take a look at an API common across all webOS devices: the accelerometer. Generally, it is used to flip the screen around when the user rotates their device, but it can be used for so much more than that
There comes a time in a Linux-loving geek’s life when he or she needs a new challenge. Making desktop apps isn’t hacking it anymore and building yet-another-website seems passe. If you want to jump into the world of mobile, here are a few reasons why HP webOS is the platform for you.
“Meet the Team” is a series to help you get to know your webOS Developer Relations team. It’s a friendly and fun behind-the-scenes look at the people whose main mission is to serve and champion webOS developers everywhere
MPlayer media player ported to webOS Mobiputing Now there's a version of MPlayer which works with webOS devices like the Palm Pre . Unfortunately it doesn't yet support webOS 2.0 which means you can't use … mPlayer — the cross-platform, open source media player — ported to webOS Switched all 2 news articles
This post is the second in the series describing the usage and implementation of the preview image widget developed for the Featured Apps app . The first post can be found here .
YokimaSun writes “Sony may have dealt a major blow to the PSjailbreak sellers, but the release last week of PSGroove, an open source version of the hack, has now opened the floodgates of ports to mobile phones such as the Nokia N900 and Palm Pre. The final kick in the teeth is that a port of the exploit has been released by Waninkoko of Wii custom firmware fame for the Dingoo Handheld, which is …
Introducing PhoneGap When you build an application for a mobile device you usually build it using the SDK specifically for that platform. This gives you a completely native look and feel, as well as full access to features specific to that device or operating system. Sometimes, however, you don’t need full device access.
For Featured Apps we wanted to provide an attractive means for users to view the application preview images. Initially we investigated attempting to scale the ImageView widget to provide this functionality but its logic is tuned for displaying a single image and did not fit this design well, thus the creation of the new widget
Palm made a huge bet on the web when we decided that our next generation operating system would have a Web runtime at its core.
Why open source doesn't always mean open on smartphones [OSCON2010] PreCentral.net (blog) Theres no palm pre on his video we should ignore this gun for not putting one on there..
Back in January, Palm started using GitHub as a repository for sample code and other open-source projects . We’ve got several different trees hosted there, including our collection of webos-samples , Frank W. Zammetti’s game Far Out Fowl , and the RSS reader sample app from the O’Reilly book “Palm webOS” called News .
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.
rboatright writes “WebOS developers have been waiting, and with the 1.3.5 release, Palm’s open source page suddenly listed SDL. Members of the WebOS internals team took that as a challenge and within 24 hours had a working port of Doom running in SDL on the Pre, in a webOS card. 48 hours later, they not only had Quake running, but had found in the latest LunaSysMgr the requirements to launch a …
Filed under: Handsets , Software , Palm , Palm OS , Android It may be half a decade old, but don’t lie — you still whip your Treo 650 out from time to time, toss on some jean shorts and pretend that the size of your stub is synonymous with the big times . If we just rung your bell, you owe it to yourself to have a peek at the video past the break.
