Palm Rapid Prototyping PostPC Computing Palm Rapid Prototyping 2003/4 Prof. Scott Kirkpatrick, HUJI Amnon Dekel, Bezalel 1/16/2019 PostPC 2002

The Palm PDA First winning Mobile handheld computing solution (1996). Follows the trailblazing failure of the Apple Newton (1993). 1/16/2019 PostPC 2002

The Palm Platform Product line today: Palm PDA’s Handspring (palmOne) PDA’s and Smart-phones 1/16/2019 PostPC 2002

Developing on the Palm Platform Handheld applications are small executables designed for a Palm OS handheld but usually created on a Windows or Mac OS desktop computer. They are compiled to the Palm Resource File format (PRC) and usually are installed to the device via a HotSync connection. When creating a handheld application there are many languages and C tools to choose from. 1/16/2019 PostPC 2002

Developing on the Palm Platform If you want to begin development and you can program in C: Get CodeWarrior or PRC Tools Get the Palm OS Emulator Join the Palm OS Developer Program (to get ROM images) Apply for the Development Seeding Program in the Resource Pavilion. Get the most recent versions of core tools from the Core Tools page Start viewing the Example Code that comes with the SDK 1/16/2019 PostPC 2002

RAD with Because of time constraints we will concentrate on doing RAD for the Palm- more specifically- building Rapid Interface Prototypes for Palm using PDAToolbox. There are other options see the PalmOS tools page to learn more. 1/16/2019 PostPC 2002

Starting the Tutorial Go to http://www.pdatoolbox.com/tutorial.html to see the online tutorial 1/16/2019 PostPC 2002

Starting A New Project The 'Project Properties' screen shows 1/16/2019 PostPC 2002

Starting A New Project The 'Project Properties' screen shows 1/16/2019 PostPC 2002

Homework Create simple Palm App Develop a Mobile Project Idea Email it to amnoid@cs.huji.ac.il Develop a Mobile Project Idea Publish it to postPC discussion group news.cs.huji.ac.il  local.course.postPC Prepare 5 minute presentation for next week. 1/16/2019 PostPC 2002