Palm announced today on their developer blog that their goal is to "make the SDK available to everyone by the end of summer". The progression towards a public release would happen in stages, notes Chuq Von Rospach, Palm Developer Community Manager. The expansion will include ramping up the Palm Mojo SDK early access program and increasing the freedoms of early Mojo developers to discuss their experiences. From the blog:
- Beginning immediately, we’ll accelerate the growth of the early access program, expanding as quickly as resources allow. Over the next few weeks, the program will grow from hundreds to thousands of developers.
- Simultaneously, we’ll begin publishing more content outside the early access program, and we’ll launch new confidentiality rules that will allow early Mojo developers to communicate more freely with the rest of the world.
- As soon as we can, we’ll open the SDK to all legitimate requests.
Also mentioned in the post is Palm's stance towards webOS development "experiments" that have arisen over the past week (derived from the webOS root for the Pre). So far, their stance seems quite moderate towards developers that cross official boundaries.
While they acknowledge that many will want to tweak the system, instead of condemning Palm is taking a more open approach, reminding us that formal offerings and community efforts around those offerings, will by in large provide the best experience. Palm also recently opened a webOS Open Source Portal to ramp up interest in the platform.
Also, if all goes to plan you should have the Palm webOS book (due out mid-August) in your hands for the SDK. The book is an official guide to building native applications in Palm webOS, written by Palm software CTO Mitch Allen. Currently, Chapter 8 of the Rough Cuts edition is available for purchase online.
via Boy Genius
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