Palm Mojo SDK For WebOS Now Available To Anyone

@CassidyPlancus: an you should press the reply button :P

"to be fair, we had to wait a whole year for iPhone apps".



This is the constant refrain on the pre forums and it drives me crazy. The Pre is not competing with the iPhone from 3 years ago, it is competing against the iPhone today. I suppose it's useful for deciding which was a more successful phone at launch, but as for justifying a decision at the current time, it's pretty useless.

As a fun fact Windows also requires Virtual Box.

CassidyPlancus

I just registered, the developer kit contains the emulator, cli tools and eclipse plugins.



As a fun fact, the SDK is Windows only (Virtual Box is required on Linux and MacOS X)

Cool, any work if this is different then the leaked sdk?

Ultraorange

Great news? Momemtum of launch? I have a pre and look forward to this, but it was a terrible move to delay more apps given Apple's strangle hold on the market. This should have been released with or before the phone was and they should be accepting apps as they are available. Which I imagine for some easy ones wouldn't take very long.

NurseDave

Note that it says "App Catalog submission process will be opened to all developers beginning this fall". It doesn't prevent those select few that is already participating in the early release program from getting approved, merely the everyone else part.

XerxesJobonee

Of course people outside the developer program have already started writing and releasing apps. It doesn't have the convenience of the app catalog, but you don't have to wait for apps like tetris, solitaire, a scientific calculator, etc. Those are available now on the Precentral forums. Right now there are more "homebrew" apps available than official apps in the app catalog.

jdale

Wooooohhhhhhooooooooooooooo!



Palm Pre >>> iPhone 3G

This is great. Although I have my pre rooted and have installed quite a few homebrew apps, I would much rather download and install them from the App Catalog.

krische

Palm is doing a great job and I think that the web os is a success. Go Palm,go!!!

jmposvip

I think it's utter stupidity that developers have waited this long. it doesn't matter that we waited for a year for the iphone apps, palm should have been ahead of it's game and had the SDK open right at the beginning. I have the Pre and I keep being shown all the cool apps that people are downloading for the 3Gs. I have to wait to the fall for one semi-decent app to appear? And Sprint, please. Enough with the Nascar shite.

pexton

sling player??????????

Mike Ushak

I still cant get the Mojo SDK to run on my x64 vista...

ryno365

This is spectacular news. Too bad we wait till fall for app submissions but Palm is obviously seeing the writing on the wall. If they want to capitalize on the momentum of the launch, they need to have developer tools out there now. I'm feeling better about my pre every day...

tnt-tek

@digitalzombie: It's a new programming language called "Unicorn."

/s

I'm looking forward to this.

@Joaquin: What's the programming language? Java? I'm crossing my finger for C++.

digitalzombie

@NurseDave: Let the whining begin! "I can't believe we had to wait THREE MONTHS to get a fart ap and a flashlight! Way to blow it, Palm!"

[envious of the people whose life is so easy that this is something they complain about]

@NurseDave: I really think palm had to push the launch before everything was ready. They knew a new iphone was on the way. Delaying for another month or two could have cost them some converts who would've decided not to wait and grabbed a 3Gs.

tnt-tek

@Ultraorange: SDK is the same. The leaked copy didn't get you access to the docs though...

tnt-tek