Tutorial: Palm Pre SDK
The Palm Pre SDK, named Mojo, is not supposed to be available to the general public of developers for a few months. Apparently it was leaked on the internets last night. I was able to get a Hello World program running on the emulator. Here is how I did it.
Environment:
Windows XP
Java JDK 1.6.0_11 (any 1.6 probably works)
Any modern CPU should work. Mine is 32 bit – not sure about 64 bit.
The emulator takes ~300MB of memory so you’ll probably want at least 1GB.I’ve got 2GB
1 – Download and install VirtualBox
(http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads). I am using version 2.2.4
2 – Download and install the SDK.
Palm has the SDK available for free download. I think registration is required.
link: http://developer.palm.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&layout=page&id=1788
3 – Start the Emulator.
When the SDK finishes installing you should see a “Palm Emulator” icon on your desktop. Open it.
The emulator should start up and it should look like this:
Linux kernel starting
The splash screen
Finished!
Ok, you’ve got your emulator running. Now its time for the fun part. Lets make a program!
4 – Open up your command prompt (start-run-”cmd”). If you’re running vista, make sure you run “cmd” as Administrator. Navigate to ‘Program Files\Palm\SDK\bin’. Type in “palm-generate helloWorld” to create the shell of a hello world program. The output should say “Generating new_app in C:\Program Files\Palm\SDK\bin\helloWorld”
5 – Go into your new helloWorld directory and modify index.html. Now we’re just programming a web page!
Hello World
6 – once you’ve modified and saved index.html, go back to the command prompt and run “palm-package helloWorld”. It should create a .ipk file in the bin directory.
7 – run “palm-install <name of .ipk file>” Mine got named ‘com.yourdomain.helloworld_1.0_all.ipk’. At this point you will want to make sure that your emulator is still running.
7 – Go to your emulator and run the program!
8- Profit!
6/28/2009-updated with hardware specs
5/1/2010 – linked to SDK download through palm.com
Thanks for your useless tutorial, it was really great to see an exact copy of the Palm Pre official tutorial, except you slightly changes the text. It must have taken you weeks.
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@cak
Excuse me? Where can I find a Palm Pre official tutorial? At the time that I wrote this (the day after the SDK got leaked) there was no official palm pre official tutorial.
Thanks for posting this. By the official Palm Pre Tutorial, I think they are referring to this:
https://prerelease.palm.com/confluence/display/sdk/Hello+World
Weirdly, there’s no “getting started” documentation installed with the SDK, so I actually found your page before I found Palm’s.
Thanks a bunch Chris, i was able to resolve my issue with your tutorial.
Thanks for your time and help – this was the first sample I was able to find.
I have the same problems as two others have posted.
C:\Program Files\Palm\SDK\bin>palm-generate.bat helloWorld
Generating new_app in C:\Program Files\Palm\SDK\bin\helloWorld
palm-generate: helloWorld\appinfo.json (The system cannot find the path specified)
both resolved their problems by running cmd as administrator. is this different then logging onto windows as administrator? because I have the only windows account on my computer, and am obviously logged in as the administrator.
Ive only barely played with alice, dr.java, and visual basic in an intro class at school so I probably wont be able to get anything out of this anyways but id like to try.
Can you use this same program for Modifying only? Like in some of the “my notifications” changes @ Pre-Central.net?
I tried creating an icon and saving it to the palm folder where the icon with the moon is, and it wouldnt let me save there and to contact the administrator? well I created another user account and made it the admin, and the emulator wont even open in that account, still works fine in my other account though…
I got stuck at:
7 – run “palm-install ”
but after changing that to:
7 – run “palm-install.bat ”
it worked
I agree that this was very helpful The only bloody tutorial that actually shows what to expect, not useless written text.@Bob
Thanks for writing this article. Now everything is clear for me.
Great info, thanks for useful post. I am waiting for more
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