Andy Reitz (blog)

 

 

Playing with the Palm webOS SDK

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After attempting to get the Palm webOS SDK running on my iMac, I decided to attempt installing Linux onto my machine, to run the SDK there. Ubuntu took a lot longer to install than I thought it would -- due to some issues with shrinking my Mac OS X partition. But once I got some free disk space, installing Ubuntu was a snap.

Getting the webOS SDK going was even easer:

webOS Simulator on my blog
The Browser app in the webOS simulator, pointed at my blog.

So far I've been through the "Hello World" demo, and at first blush, the SDK seems to be a bit more complicated than I thought it would be. While I have a basic grip on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you can't just start making web pages and loading them onto webOS -- Palm has an MVC-like framework that you have to deal with. I'm sure I'll get the hang of it, but I kindof thought that I'd be able to just jump in and start knocking something out. Alas, more reading will have to happen first.

-Andy.