This is the official guide to building native JavaScript applications for Palm’s new mobile operating system, Palm® webOS™. Written by Palm’s software chief technology officer along with the Palm webOS development team, Palm webOS provides a complete tutorial on the design principles, architecture, UI, tools, and services necessary to develop webOS applications-including the Mojo JavaScript framework and Palm’s SDK.
Palm webOS is designed to support a fast and superb user experience using established web standards, so if you’re familiar with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you’re ready to build applications for any webOS-based device, including the Palm Pre. You’ll gain expertise, chapter by chapter, as you build a working mobile application through the course of the book. You’ll also learn how to extend existing web apps to work with the new generation of mobile phones.
- Get a thorough overview of the webOS platform and architecture
- Understand the critical concepts for application design: what separates webOS from other web and mobile platforms
- Learn the details of Mojo’s development tools and SDK for building and testing mobile applications
- Examine best practices, important considerations, and guiding principles for developing with webOS and the Mojo framework
About the Author
Mitch Allen is CTO of Software at Palm, Inc. where he has worked in various positions for 8 years starting with building and leading the software team at Handspring which conceived and developed the Treo smartphone. From webOS’s conception to implementation, Mitch designed the early architecture of the webOS platform and led the development team through the initial design stage and as a result is intimately familiar with the capabilities of the platform and tools. He is currently leading the design of the developer SDK and toolsets, and working with initial developers in their use of the platform and SDK.
Previously, Mitch worked at Apple, after 15 years developing image and text processing systems at Kodak and Agfa Compugraphic. He holds a degree in Math and Computer Science from the University of New Hampshire.
Book Details
- Paperback: 456 pages
- Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc. (August 14, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0596155255
- ISBN-13: 978-0596155254
- File Size: 4.6 MiB
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