Palm has made the Palm Pré SDK available for download 2 weeks ago, and I finally found the time to download the SDK and install it. The first thing I noticed is the fact that the SDK is available for Linux, OS X, and Windows. What an improvement over Apple and the iPhone SDK – forcing developers to use only one OS on Apple hardware. I think it’s ridiculous nowadays to force a mobile app developer to buy one specific computer/OS to be able to develop applications.
Palm Pre MOJO SDK is available for Linux, OS X and Windows
Upon downloading I read that the Palm Pré emulator runs inside VirtualBox, Sun’s cool virtualization solution. That’s a smart move, since it makes it easy to run the SDK on a variety of operating systems, makes upgrades easy and should enable us to use different versions of the emulator on the same machine.
Palm Pré MOJO SDK Emulator runs in VirtualBox
The phone UI in the emulator looks great, and I really have to consider getting a Palm Pré in favor of the new iPhone when it comes out in Germany in October. Luckily the phone will be sold in Germany without a contract, and they will only sell a 3G version of the device. I have the feeling that building applications for with MOJO SDK could be lot more fun than coding Objective C for the iPhone. JavaScript based mobile development is much more up-to-date than coding C – even it if it is Objective C.
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need a virtual key board for my palm pre
Hi RAJU ,
I am new to Palm OS development. When I use the Web Browser in Pal Web OS emulator, I don’t get any result at all except a message “Unable to open the page”. What might be the problem. Please help me.
Regards,
krishnan.
I’d say it’s a problem with the network setup within VirtualBox. Did you make sure that you have the correct version of VirtualBox installed for the SDK? You should get good responses to any questions from the Palm community at developer.palm.com