Ares: webOS Development in a Browser, with Drag 'n' Drop, Coming Later This Year
Out at the Open Mobile Summit, Palm SVP Michael Abbot demoed a new development tool Palm is working on, dubbed Ares. The platform is apparently a visual studio for webOS, utilizing a drag-n-drop interface. It will be entirely web-based and include debugging tools and a "mechanism for developers to share libraries and APIs."
To show off the power of Ares, Palm had an engineer code up a Flickr search tool -- in front of a live audience -- using the drag and drop tools to create the various widgets and form necessary for the app.
Directly within Ares, a developer can send the app to a phone, submit it to the App catalog, or share it with others.
In other words, the smartphone operating system that's easiest to develop for? It's going to get even easier by the end of the year.
Read: PCWorld [via @Adora and @openmobilemedia]
