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Palm Mojo / WebOS IDE Recommendation

I'm a developer coming from Visual Studio 2008 looking to get my hands dirty writing some Palm Pre applications. I've heard a number of options for developing Palm Pre apps and am curious for a recommendation.

So far I have heard:

Eclipse IDE
Eclipse IDE with Aptana Plug-in
Aptana stand alone
Plain text editor

Could someone make a recommendation based on my past experience using visual studio? What seems to be the emerging standard?

Also, it may be important to note that debugging is an important feature for me (as it should be with any developer... haha).

+2 A:

Option 2 is easiest given the set-up of the entire SDK and emulator. Anything else will probably make debugging more complicated (than it already is).

jilles de wit 2009-08-22 20:08:53

That is what I went with... thanks. Also, setting up PuTTY to ssh into device/emulator worked for debugging.

Kyle B. 2009-08-23 13:32:35

+3 A:

Actually, Palm just released a public beta of their Ares development tool. It is based on Mozilla Bespin and is a web-based application.

http://ares.palm.com

It has a drag-and-drop UI builder, debugger, version control, emulation, and a code editor. Pretty revolutionary if you ask me.

EMK 2009-12-18 05:41:13

As of April, 2010, the Ares project, just so you know, is still pretty raw. For example, you can not (at least I couldn't) copy and paste a label. So, if you have 20 labels on a screen, you'll end up dragging a label, selecting it, manually typing in the font size, manually typing in the font color, setting it to bold, etc., etc. - 20 times. I know .css is good for stuff like this, but the app is really early-development. It might, though, still be the best/only option for widget layout. This example is pretty indicative of the maturity of other features, too.

JJ Rohrer 2010-04-06 17:23:51

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