Professional Palm OS Programming

Professional Palm OS Programming

Book Description

Professional Palm OS Programming is everything programmers need to create applications for the world’s most popular operating system for handheld devices.

Veteran Palm developer Lonnon Foster, who has been developing commercial applications for the platform since its introduction nearly a decade ago, provides readers with hands-on instruction, lots of code, and advice that only comes from the trenches – giving readers everything they need to build cutting edge applications and take advantage of the features of both Garnet and Cobalt.

Coverage includes:
* Building forms, menus and user interfaces
* Managing memory
* Tying into Palm’s standard applications such as the Calendar, Phonebook, or Tasks
* Storing program data on removable storage cards
* Building network enabled applications
* Creating web applications for Palm
* Working with Palm OS new support for Web Services
* Programm ing for new device Read More ...

Practical Palm Pre WebOS Projects

Practical Palm Pre WebOS Projects

Book Description

The Palm Pre is the hottest new device on the block. It’s the cell phone—nay, personal digital everything—that all the cool kids want to get their hands on . . . but no one wants to use it more than developers!

The Palm Pre is more than just a way-cool device, though: it is built on Palm’s brand-spanking-new webOS, an operating system that changes the game for developers. Building on standards-based web technologies, webOS allows us to create applications more quickly and easily than any other platform out there using the same technologies we know and love already. It turns out to be quite fun, too!

In this book, you’ll learn all about the Palm Pre and webOS, their capabilities, and how to develop for them. You’ll learn to write applications that function entirely on the Pre itself, and you’ll also learn to write applications that “live in the cloud” (i.e., keep you connected to the digital world around you). You’ll spend most of your time looking at Mojo, the framework API Read More ...