[GRLUG] Android PDA

[Kyle]

On 5/3/2010 11:13 PM, Matthew Seeley wrote:
> > 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
>    


Well, that's interesting.  I've seen it before, but never tried it, as 
it looked like just an interface builder or rapid prototyping system 
rather than being built for full-blown apps.  May have to take another 
look at it - Thanks!

- Kyle