HP Palm Comes Full Circle in Community Support

Okay, first HP Palm (looks like they don’t use a dash, and so I’m not going to, either) not only allows homebrewing and patching to exist, but they actively encourage it. On top of that, they invited members of the homebrew community, such as Rod Whitby of webOS Internals (who would be Apple’s public enemy #1 if he were doing his magic on iOS) to their events such as the recent Developer Day even in NYC. And...

HP-Palm Has Work to Do

Via SFGate.com, here are some results of a study conducted by Millenia Media of mobile app developers to determine which current smartphone platforms are garnering the most developer support. The answers are rather striking (and depressing): While it’s not at all surprising that Android and the iPad are attractive platforms, seeing iPhone at 8% and Windows Phone 7 at 20% is quite remarkable. Frankly, I’d never...

Line Break Issue Fixed in webOS 2.0

For the developers out there, you’re likely familiar with the issue of line breaks not showing up appropriately in app descriptions in the App Catalog. Palm describes it on their Developer Center Blog, with a solution. But, what’s interesting is what they say at the very end: As a side note, you only need to do this for devices on 1.4.5 and lower. The issue has been fixed for the 2.0 catalog. So, yes, enjoy...

Two Million Angry Birds Downloads on Android – Wow

Okay, so, here’s what happens when you have a huge installed base as Android has managed to build up over the last year or so: a major app is released on the platform, and in two days two million people download it. Now, granted, Angry Birds is a “free” app, being ad-supported, but even so that’s an impressive feat. For that to happen on webOS, we’d need to see pretty much every webOS user on the planet...

webOS Developer Move to the Majors

I’m behind on news the last few days, and so I’ll just send out my (belated) congratulations to former independent webOS developer Juancarlos Camargo (@NaNPlayer) for securing a gig at Palm. This is a well-deserved appointment and a very good move on Palm’s part—Mr. Camargo’s NaNPlayer music app has long been a fan favorite. Thanks to webOSroundup for keeping me at least a little up-to-date (and for the...