July 2009
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
12h 25m
English
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Core Application Services
This first group of application services includes a core set of applications that provide basic functions for web browsing, phone calls, maps, camera, and photos. The browser will be used first, with an example using the News application, followed by brief descriptions of the other applications and how you call them from within your application.
Web
Earlier, a WebView widget was used to display the source URL for the News story, but launching the web browser application in a new card gives more flexibility to News. The browser application can be launched to its default launch view or to a specific URL.
Back to the News: Launching the browser
News will launch the browser to load a specified URL as a simple
example of an application service. The WebView widget in News is replaced with a call to
the Application Manager to launch the browser into a separate card.
The command handler for do-webStory
in the storyView-assistant.js is
replaced with a new version that includes a single call to this.controller.serviceRequest, with the
service name set to the Application Manager, or palm://com.palm.applicationManager. All
Application Manager calls will start this way.
The second argument is an object literal that includes an
open method and a parameters object that
includes the application id
property set to com.palm.app.browser, the browser’s
application ID, and a params object. The
params object includes just the
target URL retrieved from the story array entry. This ...
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