Video: Palm at GDC 2010 19
For those of you who have been wondering what makes the Plug-in Development Kit tick and how it fits in to the overall webOS picture, Palm's presentation earlier this month at the Game Developer Conference has been made available at the GDC Vault website (direct link to the video not available - it's towards the bottom of the page) (registration required).
The 40-minute long video is complete with an overview of the technology, a lengthy coding demonstration, and an enlightening Q&A session. Highlights include the demonstration of how SDK and PDK elements can seamlessly work together inside of a single application, how easy it is to deploy PDK apps to the device for for testing and debugging, and details of Palm's plans with the technology before allowing developers to release applications incorporating the technology "before the middle of the year."
The prospects are exciting, and not just for the gaming world. Seeing how easy it is for developers to utilize the PDK for more CPU intensive tasks in their regular apps - things like audio processing (Shazam, anyone?) and OpenGL based transformations that are difficult to do with interpreted coding languages like JavaScript - make the future of the App Catalog, and indeed the platform itself, seem bright indeed.
Thanks to argyledx for the tip!
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Is it me or does it look like a lot of empty seats in that room.
Does look kinda vacant.
Looks that way to me too... that's no good =(
Actually looks like a typical session level attendance at a conference ( that and everyone always sits in the back ).
Lets get these tools in the devs hands as fast as possible. I understand everything isn't yet polished but the longer we wait the longer it will take for the cool apps to roll in.
I am really excited to see what this brings.
Will see a lot of new PDK apps with palm pre -2
I don't want games. I want decent worthwhile apps that do things for me and provide me with information on News, Travel, Sport etc etc. I have said it before and again, 6 months in the UK and NOT ONE app that you can get for the iPhone is available not one app gives me the information i want and need. 460 apps for the non US user and they are total rubbish. That coupled with a very poorly built device is why the PRE has flopped, do palm understand this or have they got tunnel vision?
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Uh... the app store is opening up to the UK in 7 days. Then you'll get 2000 + apps. I know your frustration. I'm there too, but its seven days. Come on.
But will they be any good, will they be apps people want and will they be apps that people will pay for?
@nsabournemouth
OK that tears it!! Time to put up or STHU!!
Please enlighten us and define what is a "worthwhile" application?? Cause at last count, out of the top 20 iPhone apps we had equivalents for about 17 of them so lets hear it buddy boy.
REALLY getting tired of the FUD posts.
Look at the app store yourself. Any number of News apps, sport apps, travel apps, shop apps, apps from newspapers etc etc etc and most from the company themselves. I agree there are some bad ones in there but they have the good apps that counter the bad ones, apps that WebOS can't rival at his time so that along with the poor build quality isn't doing Palm any good. Don't get me wrong. WebOS as it stands is good but i think Palm are doing things they should of done 9 months ago or more. Apps are a big selling point for phones and if someone wants to plan a rail journey, check their bank account, book cinema tickets, check out traffic news on their phone and use things such as Skype as of yet a Palm phone won't let you do that and its a shame because if you could then it would be a real contender to the likes of the iPhone.
DTG, Sling, more viable media player, photo editor, replacement phone interface,
You know, device changing applications, not the crAPPs we get now with Barney Gumble quotes, recipes for vegetarian lasagnia, internet repackagers, ebooks, overaged model images...
Yes, some real apps would be nice. The half dozen free stopwatch crAPPs timeout between releases of apps with real subtance and functionality.
STHU? We don't need no stinkin standards, we'll follow iPhone rather than exceed it.
This is good stuff. It opens up all kinds of possibilities beyond games.
A port of the Stellarium app would be awesome. Sounds like it may be possible.
WebOS users can't get enough, or just hard to please. I have Android,& webOS. Android has a lots of good apps, but no awesome 3D games. WebOS has few apps, but outstanding 3D games. It's a good trade off between the two different OS( Android,& webOS). A lots of people with Android question themself, why powerful Android phones can't or doesn' have the awesome 3D games as webOS?. Believe me, even though we doesn't have some contructive apps like Android or whatever, we're way ahead of them. Pre 2, will have alots of PDA apps & games when release.
Here's a list of apps I want... And this just a small list....
Shazam
Redbox
Photoshop Mobile
Picnic
Taco Bell Shaker
Google Listen, Voice, & Picasa (official apps would be best)
Livestrong
Uverse Mobile or Sling
some kind of caller ID spoof
this is a SMALL sample of the apps I want.... I'd like for webOS to be on a dev's mind without having to email them for a ported app....
the attendance looks really really bad..........