Now that Palm Pre SDK is out, what does it take to develop for that phone?

Question

I'd like to know what languages and tools (debuggers, IDEs, profilers, libraries, etc) are available for those wanting to develop for Palm Pre.

Also, I'd like to know what technological restrictions exists that one has to be aware of.

Answer 1

Its very much like writing web applications but you'll need to download the webOS SDK from http://developer.palm.com/ and a palm emulator.

All the information is there and its easy to get going if you use the eclipse IDE

Answer 2

It is a web-based OS, so I would assume it's somewhat similar to doing PhoneGap development, if you are at all familiar with their framework.

Javascript with custom API calls will drive most of the applications and it looks like they are configuring their SDK to work well with Eclipse IDE. Of course HTML and CSS will cover the front end of things.

A good beginner page explaining what you are looking for can be found here: http://developer.palm.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1603