Anyone using the SDK for the first time will wonder how you can mimick gestures on a normal Windows Box. Well here is a simple list of keyboard shortcuts that work in the same way as gestures on a real Palm Pre.
Keyboard Shortcuts
Back Gesture: Escape Key
Center Button: Home Key
Switch between applications: Left / Right arrow keys
Shift: Shift key
Orange Key: ALT key
Sym key: Left CTRL
Move Cards around screen: Left click , hold and move mouse
End a Card: Left Click and upward movement(flicks the card off the screen)
Touching / Tapping Screen: Left mouse click
Shuffle cards: Left mouse click + hold
Zoom in / Zoom Out: Double click Left mouse button
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If you want to develop apps for the Palm Pre then you would have found your way down to developer.palm.com to get more information. The manager of the community found the official Palm dev site is a one Chuq Von Rospach.
Pre 101 – a site that helps WebOS developers have interviewed Von Rospach and you can find out more information about what they found here.
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To go along with the release late last week of the WebOS 1.3.1 update comes a release of a new SDK for all developers to create new apps with. The new release fixes many issues with the old SDK and has an enhanced Pixi emulator.
To get the new version just head off to the downloads section of the Palm developer site, which can be found here
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The new update for WebOS , have become available for Palm Pre owners in the US, with a whole bunch of new features available. For those of us in Europe we will have to wait until the end of the month before we get our updates, not too long to go now.
A few key features that stuck out for me were:
- Yahoo now supported in Synergy
- Yahoo! IM is available as an instant messaging account.
- Text message forwarding
There are no new generic applications though. If you want to see more about the improvements to WebOS go here.
[Via PreCentral]
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Palm is giving WebOS developers one last chance to join it’s Early Access Program before the app store is live in December 2009. Emails have been sent out asking interested developers to email back with the following information:
Your contact information (include name, e-mail, phone)
Username for webOS developer portal
For each webOS application you plan to submit, provide the following details:
- App name and description
- Business model for your app (free; paid; ad-supported)
- Palm webOS services with which your app integrates (e.g., location based services, calendar, contacts, notifications/alerts, etc.)
- ipk or representative screen shots of your app
[Read More…]
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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.
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Palm really needs to drive App development there is no doubt about that and although there has been a steady increase in the number of App’s of late there is still room for improvement. So what is needed is a bit of creative thinking and this is exactly what has happened in the UK with Palm giving away Free (yes that is right Free) Palm Pre’s to lucky developers in a bid to encourage them to develop App’s for the Pre.
The giveaway took place yesterday at an O2 Palm event organized by O2 Litmus which is a website dedicated to helping App developers create and deploy their new App’s. Developers can also sell their App’s through the website, read here for more details on this. I wasn’t at the event , and to be honest I only learned of the O2 Litmus website today.
But this to me is great news as it embodies the open distribution channels Palm has always talked about not going down the route of Apple and compelling people to sell App’s via iTunes only. So well done Palm and O2 for this rather clever idea. I will take my free Palm Pre in the colour black .
You can follow all the chat on twitter on #O2Palm.
Some notes from one of the attendees of the event can be found here, make very interesting reading.
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Games on the Palm Pre are few and far between at the moment , no one would argue that it is not a weak point of the Pre. Despite the fact the Pre has an PowerVR SGX graphics chip on the inside it does virtually nothing. Most if not all of the rendering work is done by the processor and not by this powerful graphics chip.
Palm is trying to rectify this and it has taken the first step by hiring Matthew Tippett to its ranks. Matthew who began work for ATI in 2003 and subsequently started working for AMD in charge of their Linux Core Engineering program, has vast experience in the area. Seen as webOS is based on Linux OS the learning curve shouldn’t be too steep. Reading around on other blogs there is a real hope that Matthew can change the way webOS does things to make it a whole lot better for gaming.
Wether the Pre is the device to have great games on is a differnt issue and will be discussed at another time but at least there is hope for the future, no pressure Matthew.
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There has been a lot of doom and gloom around Palm for the last week, everyone seems to be having a go at Palm, it could really do with some good news. Prethinking highlighted that WebOS’s mobile web usage stats went from 4% (Total US market) to 10% in September 2009 alone, still a fair distance behind the 48% of Apple.
There are also positive signs in the fact that Palm Pre’s traffic share of the US smartphone market stands at 13%, only 1% behind RIM on 14%, the more established HTC is only on 19% so it is not bad going for Palm Pre’s first few months in a very competitive market.
There is a lot more detail over at Prethinking, for a company under so much presure maybe these are the green shoots of Palm’s recovery , the really intresting stats will come when Palm’s entry into the UK and other markets in Ocotber is taken into account.
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As Apple entered the Chinese mobile market with the iPhone yesterday , there have been rumors abound that Palm will not be hitting the Asian market until mid or even late 2010. This news will come as a big disappointment for Palm Pre fans all over the Asian continent, especially those in Australia where there had been real hope of the Palm Pre making it to market at some point. This is not the case with Palminfocenter suggesting that carriers in Australia had already been informed of this by Palm some while back.
These are testing times for Palm there is no doubt about that, with shares continuing to slide losing 13% in a day and 33.5% in October alone, things have been better. With Android 2.0 on the horizon and the Motorola Droid about to make it’s grand entrance Palm may also be losing on another vital front, that of the blogosphere. In the day and age of peoples minds being made up by both mass and niche media, an article like the one in Gizmodo which said that Palm had lost the fight of the Smartphones doesn’t do your ratings much good. The article paints Palm out to be like Apple was in the 80’s and 90’s , around but insignificant, with Microsoft winning the market share of the OS wars, it also suggests that Palm will not be able to survive like Apple did. [Read More…]
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