webos

What work has been done on cross-platform mobile development?

Have any well-documented or open source projects targeted iPhone, Blackberry, and Android? Are there other platforms which are better-suited to such an endeavor? Note that I am particularly asking about client-side software, not web apps, though any information about the difficulties of using web apps across multiple mobile platforms is ...

Good tutorials for starting Palm WebOS development?

Recently I've been getting more and more into mobile development. I am currently working with the iPhone and Android based devices. Palm's new WebOS looks interesting. Are there any good online tutorials for quickly getting up to speed on developing for the Palm WebOS? ...

PALM Pre Emulator

Has an emulator been created for the PALM Pre phone yet? ...

Will the Palm Pre Mojo SDK grant access to bluetooth apis?

Does anyone know if Palm's new Mojo SDK will grant access to bluetooth APIs? Perhaps in some form or fashion? I can't get any information about it and given I have to choose what to spend my money on in regards to the the next platform for my development, I would really like to NOT waste it. Perhaps there's some lucky PRE developmers ou...

Mojo SDK - set a timer

I'm messing around with building an application for the Palm Pre. I have a simple question: How can I set up a timer for some code to get run after a certain amount of time has passed? I tried using the regular old javascript setTimeout, but it doesn't seem to work. Here is what I've tried: setTimeout(this.someFunction, 3000); se...

Palm WebOS - How to get user's phone number?

How do I get the user's phone number on Palm Pre's WebOS? Thanks, ...

Palm Pre Dashboard notification...

How can I get Dashboard notification in my Palm-Pre application? ...

How to read pdb format by javascript?

I know that it is a databases in Palm OS, as the development is shift to webOS. Is there any third party javascript library to do the work? or it needs to write manually? ...

Variables Access Prototype

Hi All, I am working on the new Palm Pre WebOS, the Apps for Palm Pre are developed in MojoSDK which is developed on top of Prototype Javascript Framework. I am trying to access variables defined at assistant level in event handlers which are a part of the same assistant as well. When I access the assistant level variables in an event ...

webos com.palm.pdf service question

I'm trying to reproduce standard PDF viewer. I've copied sources but after they are deployed to the emulator the following error appears in log when user hits 'next'/'prev' page in it: Error: service request: palm://com.palm.pdf is not running This is happened in the following code: executeJump: function ( numPages ) { Mojo.Log.inf...

How do you get Length of Text in a Mojo TextField?

How do you get the length of the text inside a Mojo TextField? I'm trying to set a multiLine TextField with a limit of 150 chars, I tried doing it with a counter, but ran into a issue of not being able to decrement the counter when the text was erased, or adding the right number when pasting text, so my new approach was to get the lengt...

Command Menu: Spaces in Labels

Hi All, I am working on a Palm-Pre App. For some Custom Functionality, I am creating a Command Menu in my App which has 3 options at the maximum. The options are labels and doesn't contain any images. The issue is that when I add spaces in the Labels, the menu got messed-up. The separators become thick and the alignment is also distur...

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 ...

Optimize a web page for Palm Pre

I'm in the process of building a support page for my pre application. I'm having a problem where the content on the page is very small, so the user has to manually zoom in to read it. I've made the page so that there is nothing very wide or tall, but for some reason everything is very "zoomed out" when you first navigate there on the ...

Where is the WebOS Palm Host application found?

I just watched a video about unit testing WebOS applications and they used the "Palm Host" application. Where can this app and documentation on how to use it be found? ...

How to create toggle buttons within a dynamically rendered list

For my palm pre app I have a dynamically generated list (pulling in data from SQLite, loading into the model, binding). This works fine, but now I need to add an on/off toggle to each of the dynamically generated items. Including the toggle switch in the template works, but I can't assign the widget functionality properly. I'm trying to ...

How do I access data from local XML files in a webOS application on the Palm Pre?

I am new at Mojo framework and Palm webOS. I want to just retrieve data from XML files using xmlhttprequest (Ajax). I am trying to get data from following script. this.items = []; var that = this; var request = new Ajax.Request("first/movies.xml", { method: 'get', evalJSON: 'false', onSuccess:function...

Is there an analytics tool for webOS apps?

I need to track individual page views on my webOS app, something akin to Google Analytics. I understand that tracking on web apps may be barebones, but anything is better than nothing. Does anyone know of an analytics tool for webOS, or one that is compatible? The nice to haves are: support for offline mode, minimal use of bandwidth, an...

Mojo.Event.tap - how to get tap coordinates?

Hello, I am having difficulty with finding out how to get tap coordinates from tapEvent object, which is passed to my custom handler (I didn't find it's specification anyway). There is also singleTap event, which passes custom variables "X" as "Y", which is coordinates, i guess, but I can't invoke that one in Emulator. The point is tha...

Can you develop for WebOS in something besides CSS/HTML/Javascript?

I was looking at the Palm WebOS SDK and it appears to be CSS/HTML/Javascript based. Is there no strongly-typed (Java or ObjectiveC) API for it? How would you write a game, for example, without access to such a language? Maybe I've missed something, but in digging around Palm's website I couldn't find any other way of interfacing with ...