We all know the power of WebOS and the simplicity of application development for WebOS, it is one of the stand out points for Palm. Despite all the articles about the lack of app’s for WebOS Palm are not sitting back and watching the world go by. With the announcement of speed improvements to WebOS 1.3.1, the innovative ways of engaging application developers in the UK and the announcement of the unique way of distributing WebOS applications Palm are re-defining mobile app development.
To add to the progress made Palm announced at the Open Mobile Summit conference in San Francisco on Thursday that they would be launching a entirely Web-based app development studio by the end of the year. It is named Ares and will allow easy application development through a drag-and-drop interface (a bit like Visual Studio).
The key features of Ares will be:
1. Totally web based
2. No downloads needed
3. Easy drag and drop development
4. Integrated debugger
5.Ability to share libraries and API’s
6. Phone emulator in both landscape and portrait views
7. Send your app’s to a phone and / or Palm’s app store
The power of Ares was demonstrated by a Palm engineer who created a search app for Flickr, using the drag and drop features to create search boxes and widgets, and demonstrating the use of Ajax for the communication with the Flickr API.
More news to come on this for sure and well done Palm for another clever idea.
