Palm webOS

About This Book

The book was conceived after the architecture and core design of Palm webOS and the Mojo framework had been completed, but while the team was fully engaged with implementation of the application runtime, the Mojo framework, and while many of the core applications were still in prototype form. As a result, the book has been written at the same time as the software, which makes it fresh but raw information.

The project changed dramatically soon after it began. Originally, I saw my role more as that of an editor. I expected to pull together the engineering and developer documentation and write a heavily annotated reference book that would provide a guided tutorial to webOS and Mojo. After the first chapter, though, it became clear that I would have to write a specific application that would use a significant portion of the API and document my experience. I scaled back the outline from a reference book to more of an application-centered guidebook focused on an RSS reader application called News.

This book is not a comprehensive reference, but more of a guided tutorial. It covers all the basics for creating and building an application and for using UI widgets, storage, and services. It includes specific chapters on building background applications, a huge topic of its own, and on specialty topics of building localized applications and on styling. You will want to augment this book with SDK documentation or other reference material as it becomes available.

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