Jan 27

More screens of Android Cupcake, and a chance to taste it yourself

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More screens of Android Cupcake, and a chance to try it for yourself

Eagerly awaiting your opportunity to try out Cupcake on your G1 or other Android-powered device? Sadly we still don’t know exactly when you’ll get your chance, but we can at least give you an opportunity to check it out emu-style. Nullwire has the links, files, and instructions you’ll need to get the current revision Android emulator up and running on your home computer, plus the freshly-frosted binaries you’ll want to get a taste of some Cupcake action. We verified everything does work, so hit the read link if you want to take a bite yourself, or, if you’re just looking for a guilt-free glimpse, take a look in the gallery. It has freshly baked screens of the new notepad app, the global time globe, and of course the delectable virtual keyboard.

Gallery: Android Cupcake

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More screens of Android Cupcake, and a chance to taste it yourself originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 14

Pandora’s CTO talks about Pre, webOS development, gaming, and small children

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Pandora's CTO talks about Pre, webOS development, gaming, and small children

While we were happy just to see pictures, Tom Conrad, CTO of Pandora, is one of the lucky few to have seen in action the innards of the software that keeps things moving on the Pre. He sat down with Palm Infocenter (on the wrong end of a zero-bar concall by the sounds) to talk details of webOS software development. Conrad clarified that, despite all apps being mixtures of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, webOS is more than just a big browser — it has direct access to local files and UI elements. However, he echoed the fears of others that this web-friendly programming interface won’t exactly be well suited for gaming, expressing hope that Palm will address this with integrated Flash support or some sort of a lower-level API to appease those who want to tap that OMAP processor directly. Hit the read link to hear the whole conversation yourself.

[Thanks, Jay]

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Pandora’s CTO talks about Pre, webOS development, gaming, and small children originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 13

Palm’s Mojo SDK for webOS in pictures

Posted in: Features, palm, pre, sdk, Today's Chili, webos

Okay, look, we like the Pre. We like it a lot, actually — but failing our ability to get hold of one of those any time soon, we’ll gladly take a boatload of screenshots in its place. These shots, taken from a late-2008 copy of the Mojo SDK, show some core goodies like messaging and Synergy contact management — there’s still a lot of stuff missing, yes, but this version has been floating around for a few months now, so the build demonstrated on Pres at CES was likely a good deal fresher. Head over to Engadget Mobile for the full gallery!

Big thanks to Boy Genius for hooking us up with shots from his tipster!

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Palm’s Mojo SDK for webOS in pictures originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 12

Screen shots of Palm’s Mojo SDK already in the wild?

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We don’t have a failsafe way to confirm that these are real, but what we’re seeing certainly jibes with what Palm’s been saying about webOS and its Mojo SDK: all web, all the time. Apps, which rely heavily on HTML and Javascript, are actually debugged right from the comfort of your desktop web browser, so it seems like there isn’t even a native emulator to worry about. Boy Genius Report has a few screenshots posted, and while there isn’t anything too terribly interesting going on, it’s good to have some semi-confirmation that devs are already hard at work bringing stuff to the webOS table in time for the Pre launch. Oh, and Palm: feel free to hook us up, because we have this awesome idea for an Engadget app. Seriously.

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Screen shots of Palm’s Mojo SDK already in the wild? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 08

Yahoo! recaps a day of setting the Internet-on-TV movement on fire with Widgets

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Okay Yahoo!, we’re sorry we teased, we give up, you win. After what certainly seemed on this end to be an endless run of HDTV manufacturers announcing support for the Widget Engine today — and serving up a hefty slap in the face to Microsoft and others who’ve been moving the Internet to TV movement for some time now — all we can do is look over the carnage. Signed up on the app side of platform formerly known as Konfabulator are content providers like eBay, MySpace, CBS, Blockbuster OnDemand (in its first off-2Wire MediaPoint appearance), Netflix, Showtime, USA Today and Twitter, while the Widget Development Kit has opened up to developers interested in putting their apps on the screens of millions. Hardware should street starting this spring from the likes of Samsung, LG, Sony and Vizio leaving the biggest question mark as how the competition and their clumsy external boxes can possibly respond.

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Yahoo! recaps a day of setting the Internet-on-TV movement on fire with Widgets originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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