But not quite yet. Not in my opinion anyhow, after giving WebOS from Palm a try. My previous experience with HTML/Javascript/CSS based native apps was by using PhoneGap in an iPhone application, that actually works the way I expected, with the “look and feel” of how i would create any other ordinary web/html application. With WebOS and the Palm WebOS SDK there’s a different way to do it….
[Update: This post relates to WebOS release 1.4.x]
Firstly, you download and install the SDK and the VirtualBox WebOS emulator. To start a new project you fire up a command prompt or terminal window and type the generate command:
> palm-generate -p “{title:’Hello World’, id:com.mystuff.hello, version:’1.0.0′}” HelloWorld
This generates the basic application folder structure for you with the first “ViewController” called index.html. Then you need to create a View, or a Scene as they call it. (which actually is saved in a folder called views…..) The view is created yet again with the magic palm-generate command at command line.
> palm-generate -t new_scene -p “name:first” HelloWorld
The application run from the emulator should look like this.
You now have a html file called “/app/views/first/first-scene.html”. This is where you place the content of that view/scene. The content could look like this…
<div id="main">
<div>Header</div>
<div id="count">0</div>
<div id="MyButton"
name="MyButton1"
x-mojo-element="Button"></div>
</div>
The ViewController (index.html) is controlled from ‘/app/assistants/stage-assistant.js’ (someone has been fond of the theatre here) and the View/Scene is controlled by ‘/app/assistants/first-assistant.js’
You get your mojo going by hooking the button click event inside ‘first-assistant.js’ and you configure the View/Scene in the setup method.
Ahh.. I phased out… too much code to many places to get a simple button push count app….. If i’d been using Eclipse i could have avoided the trips out to the command line, but I’m not much of a Eclipse fan, and as web/html development it’s too bound to the WebOS platform for me.
Want to try for yourself you can find the complete guide here at Palm Developer Center.
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