[GRLUG] Android PDA

[Matthew Seeley]

>From experience as well (although I don't mess with the API's much,
mine are mostly silly little projects) :

One of the coolest things I've seen is how they've made the
development super easy to get started. You can begin writing your
application, without installing anything, without even owning a Palm
device, by heading to http://ares.palm.com and develop right in the
browser. (It's a good experience, Palm hired the Mozilla Bespin guys
to write it). Then, if you install the SDK, you can actually use the
Browser IDE to send compiled, installed apps straight to your phone,
with one click.

(You can, of course, download the full SDK and develop on your local
machine too, and do all compile / packaging / distribution locally, if
you want.)

The UI toolkit has a GUI builder built in too. So really, the only
'hard' parts involved are those API calls, and learning their default
apps structure (it's a heavy-handed, and while not required, I think
most people use it anyway).



-- Matt





On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Kyle <dontwantspam1 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>  Also a comment was made on a recent Buzz Out Loud podcast
>>  that one of the things that's slowing down application
>>  releases for the Pre is that is difficult to
>>  program—despite item 4 above. Does anyone have any
>>  information for or against this claim?
>>
>>  Phil
>
>
>  From experience, for.
>
> Most system API calls are considered asynchronous - you have to pass a "success" and "failure" callback to get a result.  That part is not fun by any means and a pain to debug.  Program code is heavily structured and in my opinion would be rather difficult for beginners to pick up.  Once you get the hang of it, it's not nearly as scary, but it took me quite a while to get to that point.
>
> And yet I still prefer it to Java.  :)
>
> - Kyle
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