{"id":618785,"date":"2010-01-03T02:40:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T07:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palminfocenter.com\/news\/10016\/palms-native-webos-app-secrets-revealed\/"},"modified":"2010-01-03T02:40:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T07:40:01","slug":"palms-native-webos-app-secrets-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/618785","title":{"rendered":"Palm&#8217;s Native webOS App Secrets Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.palminfocenter.com\/images\/uploads\/native-thumb.jpeg?w=780\" class=\"right\" alt=\"Native\" \/>If you were a gambling man (or lady), and you were to bet <I>against<\/I> Palm preparing to announce native game development options for their Linux-based webOS, then your correspondent reckons you would soon be a very <I>broke<\/I> gambling man (or lady). The discovery of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palminfocenter.com\/news\/10012\/doom-ported-to-palm-pre-is-hardwareaccelerated\/\">SDL&#8217;s inclusion<\/a> in webOS 1.3.5 really should have been enough evidence for you that something big was brewing, but destinal and Rod Whitby&#8217;s (of <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/webosinternals\">WebOS Internals)<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.precentral.net\/showthread.php?p=2125044\">latest discovery<\/a> is proof positive: webOS 1.3.5 also includes a method for launching native Linux applications without any of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palminfocenter.com\/news\/10014\/webos-doom-paving-way-for-future-sdl-ports\/\">Upstart hackery<\/a> we reported on yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>\nHow&#8217;s it done? Rather simply, actually. All a developer needs to do is install the application&#8217;s files and include a webOS-standard <I>appinfo.json<\/I> file, which tells webOS everything about a particular app. By setting the type to &#8220;game&#8221; and pointing to a binary executable (rather than the usual <I>index.html<\/I> a typical webOS app is based around) webOS 1.3.5 will happily throw your new native, SDL-based Linux program into a card, ready to do your bidding.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSo there you have it. Fully-integrated native apps on webOS are a go &#8211; and within seven months of launch, we might add. (For the record, the iPhone took a year to get there and Android nearly two.) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palminfocenter.com\/news\/10001\/video-need-for-speed-on-pre-raises-interesting-questions\/\">Need For Speed<\/a> on the Pre doesn&#8217;t seem quite so far-fetched anymore, now does it?\n<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=49f3d6d6a3f159b24ac60860ec847106&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=49f3d6d6a3f159b24ac60860ec847106&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?resize=0%2C0\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were a gambling man (or lady), and you were to bet against Palm preparing to announce native game development options for their Linux-based webOS, then your correspondent reckons you would soon be a very broke gambling man (or lady). The discovery of SDL&#8217;s inclusion in webOS 1.3.5 really should have been enough evidence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":673,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2AYp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/673"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}