Veil lifted off of webOS 2.0 SDK NDA and European Dev Events 33
It was an article (and attached comments) here on PreCentral the other day that inspired Richard Kerris, the new VP of Worldwide Developer Relations at Palm, to send a word of encouragement to webOS app developers and announce some changes coming to his division this year. The biggest news that effects us this week would be about the 2.0 Software Development Kit (SDK) that has been under Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) for so long:
"We will release the SDK and remove the NDA for 2.0 THIS week. There’s no rational excuse that it took us so long to do it, so I won’t try and coat the obvious."
There's no word on an exact time they'll be dropping this for us, but if it's coming this week as he says it is then we'll definitely support that decision. Hey, better late than never.
webOSIgnite! Events Coming to London on March 30th
Kerris also mentioned (in his comment and on Twitter) new Developer training days at the Palm HQ and abroad to help get devs on track with their projects. At least some of these seem to be the same events being announced at webOSIgnite! for our European friends in London, Paris and Berlin, with plans to expand elsewhere as we get further into 2011. The current schedule looks like at least one event in those locations every three months, but with hopes to have one every month for devs to keep connected.
It doesn't seem that these events will be on the same scale as Dev Day NYC 2010, but with HP backing up the webOSIgnite! team in getting the events set, we're pretty sure there will be a lot of good things that come from the initiative. Of course, that's all speculation at this point, since the website where you can get all of this info is pretty bare on details. What we do know is that the first event is coming to London on March 30th, but we'll keep you updated as we find out more.
Will a released 2.0 SDK be the open door you were looking for to start (or finish) your own projects? Or are you going to have to take advantage of those dev events, first? Let us know in the comments, and be sure to tell us if you're going to be in London. Maybe we'll see you there.
Source: Richard Kerris on PreCentral | Twitter and webOSIgnite!
33 Comments
I'd be a little more excited if they took the "veil" off of some firm product release dates.
If they told you July 15th, would it make your life that much different? They said Summer, when Summer is close that it will be nice to know but does it really matter that much right now?
Agreed. People get all frantic and start losing their minds when a company doesn't give detailed information about up coming products they want. Take a deep breath, think about how important a solid release date REALLY is, and relax... Okay, we're doing good.
I got my Pre on Launch day 6/6/09, so, Yes it would make a difference!
This title is a bit confusing.. The veil technically hasn't been lifted officially yet, right? Richard said it would happen THIS week but has it officially happened yet?
Right, it hasn't happened yet, but we do know that it is happening, and we know when. The mystery of IF it is going to happen (in both the NDA and events) is now clarified.
Ahh, just like we knew that 2.0 was going to be released for the Pre- when they announced that. And we knew that new products would be released within weeks, not months of their announcement.
Exactly, it's a little confusing. It would've been better if it was written as "Veil to be lifted" instead of "Veil lifted".
Sorry. :/
Oh look at that, an apology. That shows you are not stubborn and willing to grow. Thumbs-up.
i'm actually going to try and make this one :) let's see how it goes.
It's refreshing to see a company acknowledge a (for lack of better word) dumb decision and just admit it, as opposed to making up reasons.
+1
this is progress. wow!
who really cares if the 2.0 SDK is released, anyone who really wanted it should already have it by now from the early access program, what's really holding development back is how many user's are actually running 2.X on their devices
So Saturday night at like 11 PM I should check out the Palm developer site for the SDK...
Oh hey look, old joke.
Seems that hp is targeting Europe now for sales.
Yup, I am also thinking the same thing. Been thinking that since the way the Pre 2 was handled.
Wooo! Maybe we can finally get Shazam and other music ID apps!
I'll definitely try to go to the London event. Having it on a Wednesday night is not really practical for people who have to travel a bit further, but still great to see these events coming to Europe!
coming week = coming weeks, coming months = within the year or never. We gotta make a wiki for this.
SDK 2.0 sounds interesting with access to Just Type, etc, but it seems it would further disenfranchise Sprint users from the WebOS cloud. Plus, being a Sprint user, I wouldn't be able to use the apps I coded, which is the biggest reason for me to make them. So at this point, it is hard for me to get too excited.
Now Enyo - that gets me more interested. If it has a drag/drop copy/paste way to do Menus, I will be a lot more excited.
Is Enyo for WebOS 3 only, or is 2 and up?
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- author of the wildly popular medical tool, Bishop Score. (46 downloads in the Web Distribution channel, so far! lol....)
Ok, so I'm not one to rant or anything, but I must be a bit vocal here. First, I am one, among may, who are launch day adopters that are waiting patiently for the next webOS device. I have been nursing along my Pre- for a while, and am somewhat happy with this OS for the time being.
Secondly, I hate to trash HPalm for this, but if you want to be the best, you have to be better than the best. Example; when the fruit company announces a new product, it's on shelves (or online) within about a week of the announcement. To announce a new product, then say "you can have it in about 6 months" (you know what I mean), that just kills the buzz around it. When the fruit company says "here it is; you can have it in a week", the buzz carries it to an instant success because that same buzz never had a chance to die down.
Third, well June makes sense for the Pre3; as that's when the minus was released. Also, since the TouchPad is to be released in June (if that is really the case), then it would be the perfect time to make both products available. To that note however; I do hope the HPalm does "something special" for those of us loyalists who have stuck with webOS through thick and thin (mostly thin).
Maybe I'm a bit closed minded as to what HP is planning for webOS, but I had to voice some opinion here; especially after reading some comments in this forum. I do not wish to offend anyone here; I only wanted to vet a bit. Take this for what it is.
Thx
Don't worry, you're not close minded. For some reason HP wants to take a rather impressive smartphone OS and re-create the Matrix. Trust me, there is no plan.
Notice when someone tries to explain the potential of webOS they always start with "Imagine if..."
sounds great but thewebos 2.0sdk wouldve been great when the pre 2 was released way back in 2010.
Can anyone tell me who webOSIgnite! are? Are they affiliated with HP/Palm in any way?
And why does their website now redirect to a Go Daddy holding page?
I thought it was just the name Palm was giving to this tour.
Nothing like the Precentral comment pages for self-absorbed whining! I want this, I want that, boohoo gimme free hardware...
And that's what the spam messages are for...to help people with their 'pain' by offering other products to purchase... ;)
yes this definitely [will] help developers and users.
there are many wanting access to the sdk that don't have it yet. (expecting everyone to join early access is a non-sequitur). I also agree a Shazam coming to fruition would be golden.
for users this is good news because many apps have been delayed greatly due to this nda. We have no idea how many are waiting in the wings. More importantly, no idea how many devs gave up waiting. It is friday, so its pushing even a simple deadline like this.. Eh.
especially w the 2.1 metadoc the # of webOS 2 users had markedly increased in the past few weeks.. (looks at pre+ running 2 in his hand..)
Well, I guess they didn't mean "this business week."
Any mention of WHEN they are going to "make things right" for us???