HP Palm Developer Blog

PhoneGap webOS Updates

With Version 1.6.0, PhoneGap for webOS now supports the compass sensor found in the HP TouchPad. The initial work to enable the functionality in Phonegap was done by Markus Leutwyler, a webOS Developer Relations team member, and HP officially contributed to the project. PhoneGap is an HTML5 app platform that allows you to author native applications [...]

April Code Releases for Open webOS

As April draws to a close we are pleased to share more code for Open webOS. This month’s scheduled release includes support for Node.js as well as updates to Enyo and Ares. In addition, we are pleased to announce early delivery of the System Manager Bus (which was originally scheduled for July) and a release [...]

Developer Center Updates

A few astute developers may have noticed a couple of new features in the My Apps section of the Developer Center Web site. This last weekend we rolled out some changes to make it easier for developers to monitor their apps and generate promo codes. The first change allows developers to see app reviews for [...]

Sam’s Blog: March Progress

Today is a very exciting day for Open webOS. The Linux Standard Kernel (LSK) version 3.3 was released today by Linus Torvalds. When you read the release notes you will see some very significant functionality that we did not have in webOS. It incorporates new functionality such as the TI C6X and all ARM and [...]

Sam’s Blog: A Community Release

We are very excited to announce that we will be publishing additional components from the current release of webOS for the TouchPad, version 3.0.5, at opensource.palm.com. In future discussions, we will refer to these components at opensource.palm.com as the “Community Edition.” Look for this effort to be completed in June. (Note that this release is [...]