PostPC Computing

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PostPC Computing

• Palm Rapid Prototyping

2003/4
Prof. Scott Kirkpatrick, HUJI Amnon Dekel, Bezalel
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The Palm PDA

• First winning Mobile handheld computing solution
  (1996).
• Follows the trailblazing failure of the Apple
  Newton (1993).

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The Palm Platform

• Product line today
• Palm PDAs
• Handspring (palmOne) PDAs and Smart-phones

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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.

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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

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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.

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Starting the

• Tutorial
• Go to http//www.pdatoolbox.com/tutorial.html to
  see the online tutorial

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Starting A New Project

• The 'Project Properties' screen shows

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Starting A New Project

• The 'Project Properties' screen shows

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Homework

• Create simple Palm App
• Email it to amnoid_at_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.