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Book Description

A Note from the Author and from O'Reilly Media about what this bookdoes--and doesn't--do:

Palm webOS is a brand new platform and represents a very different type ofoperating system where the web runtime is used as the basis for the UI andApplication model. Palm and O'Reilly felt that it was important to have abook available to help developers get a basic understanding of the new Palmplatform at the time that the SDK was released; this timing played a majorrole in the content and structure of the book.

Ideally this book would have been a complete reference of the new platformbut that wasn't possible since the content was written at the same time asthe software SDK was being developed by the Palm engineering team. The bookdoes provide a complete overview of Palm webOS, a thorough description ofthe application model and gives details on many key design concepts. Thereare descriptions and examples of UI widgets, services, storage,notifications, dashboards and background applications, serving as a greatintroduction but not as a definitive source.

The book uses a simple News reader application to illustrate the technicaldescriptions but the examples are not intended to serve as a cookbooktutorial. Experienced developers should be able to use the examples to buildup a working application chapter by chapter but others may not find theloose descriptions adequate for recreating the application unaided. Overtime, these different needs will be filled by other books, but in themeantime we hope that this book will serve a valuable role introducingdevelopers to webOS and giving them a way of getting started with webOSapplication development.

A second printing of the book will update any original coverage obsoleted bysubsequent Mojo SDK builds. For owners of the original printing of the book,all of these updates are posted on the "View/Submit Errata" link (please seeleft-hand column of this web page).

Thanks for understanding that book publishing and coverage of rapidly movingtechnologies can sometimes be an inexact science; we knew there'd be a needfor a book such as Palm webOS: The Insider's Guide to DevelopingApplications in JavaScript using the Palm MojoT Framework, and there'scertainly no better person to write that book that Mitch Allen; that said,we understand that because it is such a new operating system and SDK, therewould (and will continue to be) changes that at best can't be documented andexplored until new printings of the books are released. In the meantime wewill be diligent in posting updates to this book's O'Reilly Media catalogpage.

Description

This is the official guide to building native JavaScript applications for Palm's new mobile operating system, Palm® webOS™. Written by Palm's software chief technology officer along with the Palm webOS development team, Palm webOS provides a complete tutorial on the design principles, architecture, UI, tools, and services necessary to develop webOS applications-including the Mojo JavaScript framework and Palm's SDK.

Palm webOS is designed to support a fast and superb user experience using established web standards, so if you're familiar with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you're ready to build applications for any webOS-based device, including the Palm Pre. You'll gain expertise, chapter by chapter, as you build a working mobile application through the course of the book. You'll also learn how to extend existing web apps to work with the new generation of mobile phones.

  • Get a thorough overview of the webOS platform and architecture
  • Understand the critical concepts for application design: what separates webOS from other web and mobile platforms
  • Learn the details of Mojo's development tools and SDK for building and testing mobile applications
  • Examine best practices, important considerations, and guiding principles for developing with webOS and the Mojo framework

Table of Contents

  1. Palm® webOS™
  2. Dedication
  3. A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
  4. Foreword
  5. Preface
    1. Mobile Web Challenges
      1. Palm webOS
    2. The Mobile Web Is the Web
    3. About This Book
    4. Conventions Used in This Book
    5. Using Code Examples
    6. How to Contact Us
    7. Safari® Books Online
    8. Acknowledgments
  6. 1. Overview of webOS
    1. Application Model
    2. Application Framework and OS
    3. User Interface
      1. Navigation
      2. Launcher
      3. Card View
      4. Notifications and the Dashboard
      5. User Interface Principles
    4. Mojo Application Framework
      1. Anatomy of a webOS Application
        1. Stages and scenes
        2. Application lifecycle
        3. Events
        4. Storage
      2. UI Widgets
        1. Using widgets
      3. Services
    5. Palm webOS Architecture
      1. Application Environment
      2. Core OS
    6. Software Developer Kit
      1. Development Tools
      2. Mojo Framework and Sample Code
      3. webOSdev
    7. Summary
  7. 2. Application Basics
    1. Getting Started
      1. Creating Your Application
      2. Testing and Debugging
    2. News
      1. News Wireframes
      2. Creating the News Application
      3. Customizing the Launcher Icon and Application ID
      4. Adding the First Scene
        1. The scene view
        2. The scene assistant
        3. Pushing the scene
        4. Styling the scene
      5. Base Styles
        1. Elements
        2. Scene styles
        3. Widget styles
      6. Application Launch Lifecycle
      7. Adding a Second Scene
    3. Controllers
      1. Controllers and Assistants
      2. Scene Stack
    4. Summary
  8. 3. Widgets
    1. All About Widgets
      1. Declaring Widgets
      2. Setting Up a Widget
      3. Updating a Widget’s Data Model
      4. Widget Event Handling
    2. Using Widgets
    3. Buttons and Selectors
      1. Buttons
        1. Adding a button to News
      2. Selectors
        1. Check Box
        2. Toggle Button
        3. Radio Button
        4. List Selector
        5. Slider
    4. Lists
      1. List Widgets
        1. Back to the News: Adding a Story List
        2. Back to the News: Ajax requests
        3. Back to the News: Adding a feed list
      2. More About Lists
        1. Dynamic lists
        2. Formatters and dividers
    5. Text Fields
      1. Adding Text Fields to News
      2. Password Field
      3. Filter Field
      4. Rich Text Edit
    6. Events
      1. Framework Event Types
      2. Listening
      3. stopListening
      4. Using Events with Widgets
    7. Summary
  9. 4. Dialogs and Menus
    1. Dialogs
      1. Error Dialog
      2. Alert Dialog
      3. Custom Dialogs
        1. Back to the News: Adding an Add Feed dialog
    2. Menus
      1. Menu Widgets
        1. Application menu
        2. Back to the News: Adding an Application menu
        3. Back to the News: Adding preferences to News
        4. View menu
        5. Back to the News: Adding View menus
        6. Command menu
        7. Back to the News: Adding Command menus
      2. Submenus
        1. Back to the News: Adding a submenu
    3. Commander Chain
    4. Summary
  10. 5. Advanced Widgets
    1. Indicators
      1. Spinners
        1. Back to the News: Adding a spinner for feed updates
      2. Progress Indicators
        1. Progress Pill
        2. Progress Bar
        3. Progress Slider
    2. Scrollers
      1. Back to the News: Adding a featured feed Scroller
    3. Pickers
      1. Simple Pickers
        1. Date pickers
        2. Time pickers
        3. Integer pickers
        4. Back to the News: Adding an integer picker
      2. File Picker
    4. Advanced Lists
      1. Formatters
      2. Dividers
      3. Filter Lists
        1. Back to the News: Adding a search field
    5. Viewers
      1. WebView
        1. Back to the News: Adding a web view
      2. Other Viewers
        1. Image view
        2. Audio and video objects
    6. Summary
  11. 6. Data
    1. Working with Cookies
      1. Back to the News: Adding a Cookie
    2. Working with the Depot
      1. Back to the News: Adding a Depot
    3. HTML 5 Storage
    4. Ajax
      1. Ajax Request
      2. Ajax Response
      3. More Ajax
        1. Ajax responders
        2. Ajax.Updater and Ajax.PeriodicalUpdater
    5. Summary
  12. 7. Advanced Styles
    1. Typography
      1. Fonts
      2. Truncation
      3. Capitalization
      4. Vertical Alignment
    2. Images
      1. Standard Image
      2. Multistate Image
      3. 9-Tile Image
        1. 3-tile image
        2. Unsupported CSS properties
    3. Touch
      1. Maximize Your Touch Targets
      2. Optimizing Touch Feedback
      3. Passing Touches to the Target
    4. Light and Dark Styles
    5. Summary
  13. 8. Application Services
    1. Using Services
      1. Service Overview
      2. Application Manager
        1. Open
        2. Launch
      3. Cross-App Launch
    2. Core Application Services
      1. Web
        1. Back to the News: Launching the browser
      2. Phone
      3. Camera
      4. Photos
      5. Maps
    3. Palm Synergy Services
      1. Account Manager
      2. Contacts and Calendar
      3. People Picker
      4. Email and Messaging
        1. Back to the News: Sharing stories through email or messaging
    4. Viewers and Players
      1. View File
      2. Audio
      3. Video
    5. Other Applications
    6. Summary
  14. 9. System and Cloud Services
    1. System Services
      1. Accelerometer
        1. Orientation changes
        2. Shake
        3. Raw acceleration
      2. Alarms
      3. Connection Manager
      4. Location Services
        1. Get current position
        2. Tracking
        3. Reverse location
      5. Power Management
      6. System Properties
      7. System Services
      8. System Sounds
    2. Cloud Services
    3. Summary
  15. 10. Background Applications
    1. Stages
      1. Creating New Stages
      2. Using Existing Stages
      3. Working with Stages
    2. Notifications
      1. Banner Notifications
        1. Back to the News: Banner notifications
      2. Minimized Applications
      3. Pop-up Notifications
    3. Dashboards
      1. Back to the News: Adding a Dashboard Stage
      2. Handling Minimize, Maximize, and Tap Events
    4. Advanced Applications
      1. Back to the News: App Assistant
      2. Handling Launch Requests
      3. Sending and Considering Notifications
      4. Back to the News: Creating Secondary Cards
    5. Background Applications
    6. Summary
  16. 11. Localization and Internationalization
    1. Locales
      1. Character Sets and Fonts
      2. Keyboards
    2. Localization
      1. Localized Application Structure
      2. appinfo.json
      3. JavaScript Text Strings
        1. Identifying strings
        2. Extracting strings
        3. Localizing strings
      4. Localizable HTML
        1. Identifying and extracting strings
        2. Localizing strings
    3. Internationalization
      1. Back to the News: Multilingual Formatting
    4. Summary
  17. A. Palm webOS Developer Program
    1. Philosophy
    2. Palm webOS: Open Platform, Open Community
    3. Benefits to the Developer
    4. Resources and Community
    5. What You Should Do
  18. B. Quick Reference—Developer Guide
    1. Widgets
      1. Button
      2. Check Box
      3. Date Picker
      4. Drawer
      5. File Picker
      6. Filter Field
      7. Filter List
      8. Image View
      9. Integer Picker
      10. List
      11. List Selector
      12. Password Field
      13. Progress Bar
      14. Progress Pill
      15. Progress Slider
      16. Radio Button
      17. Rich Text Edit
      18. Scroller
      19. Slider
      20. Spinner
      21. Text Field
      22. Time Picker
      23. Toggle Button
      24. Web View
    2. Dialogs
      1. Mojo.Controller.errorDialog()
      2. Mojo.Controller.SceneController.showAlertDialog()
      3. Mojo.Controller.SceneController.showDialog()
    3. Menus
      1. AppMenu
      2. Command Menu
      3. View Menu
      4. Submenu
    4. Storage
      1. Mojo.Model.Cookie()
      2. Mojo.Depot()
    5. Services
      1. Accounts
        1. Method: listAccounts
        2. Method: createAccount
        3. Method: getAccount
        4. Method: updateAccount
        5. Method: deleteAccount
      2. Alarms
        1. Method: set
        2. Method: clear
      3. Application Manager
        1. Method: open
        2. Method: launch
      4. Audio
        1. Method: launch
      5. Calendar
        1. Method: createCalendar
        2. Method: getCalendar
        3. Method: updateCalendar
        4. Method: deleteCalendar
        5. Method: listCalendars
        6. Method: createEvent
        7. Method: getEvent
        8. Method: updateEvent
        9. Method: deleteEvent
        10. Method: listEvents
        11. Method: startTracking
        12. Method: getChanges
        13. Method: doneWithChanges
      6. Connection Manager
        1. Method: getStatus
      7. Contacts
        1. Method: createContact
        2. Method: getContact
        3. Method: updateContact
        4. Method: deleteContact
        5. Method: listContacts
        6. Method: startTracking
        7. Method: getChanges
        8. Method: doneWithChanges
      8. Email
        1. Method: open
        2. Method: launch
      9. Location Services
        1. Method: getCurrentPosition
        2. Method: startTracking
        3. Method: getReverseLocation
      10. Maps
        1. Method: open
        2. Method: launch
      11. Messaging
        1. Method: launch
      12. Phone
        1. Method: open
        2. Method: launch
      13. Photos
        1. Method: launch
      14. System Properties
        1. Method: getSysProperties
      15. System Service
        1. Method: getSystemTime
      16. System Sounds
        1. Method: playFeedback
      17. Video
        1. Method: launch
    6. Controller APIs
      1. Mojo.Controller.AppController.createStageWithCallback(stageArguments, onCreate, optionalStageType)
      2. Mojo.Controller.AppController.getActiveStageController(stageType)
      3. Mojo.Controller.AppController.getScreenOrientation()
      4. Mojo.Controller.AppController.getStageController(stageName)
      5. Mojo.Controller.AppController.getStageProxy(stageName)
      6. Mojo.Controller.AppController.sendToNotificationChain(notificationData)
      7. Mojo.Controller.AppController.showBanner(bannerParams, launchArguments, category)
      8. Mojo.Controller.SceneController.listen(element, eventType, callback, onCapture)
      9. Mojo.Controller.SceneController.get(elementId)
      10. Mojo.Controller.SceneController.removeRequest(request)
      11. Mojo.Controller.SceneController.serviceRequest(url, options, resubscribe)
      12. Mojo.Controller.SceneController.setupWidget(name, attributes, model)
      13. Mojo.Controller.SceneController.stopListening(element, eventType, callback, onCapture)
      14. Mojo.Controller.StageController.activate()
      15. Mojo.Controller.StageController.activeScene()
      16. Mojo.Controller.StageController.deactivate()
      17. Mojo.Controller.StageController.delegateToSceneAssistant(functionName)
      18. Mojo.Controller.StageController.getScenes()
      19. Mojo.Controller.StageController.getWindowOrientation()
      20. Mojo.Controller.StageController.popScene(returnValue, options)
      21. Mojo.Controller.StageController.popScenesTo(targetScene, returnValue, options)
      22. Mojo.Controller.StageController.pushScene(sceneArguments)
      23. Mojo.Controller.StageController.setWindowOrientation(orientation)
      24. Mojo.Controller.StageController.swapScene(sceneArguments)
      25. Mojo.Controller.StageController.topScene()
  19. C. Quick Reference—Style Guide
    1. Scene Basics
      1. Backdrop
      2. Fixed Header
      3. Page Header
      4. Scrim
      5. Scroll Fades
      6. View/Command Menus
    2. List Basics
      1. Add/Remove Rows
      2. Lists and Rows
      3. Separators
      4. Reordering Rows
      5. Swipe to Delete
      6. Touch Feedback
      7. Touch Feedback with Groups
    3. Containers
      1. Drawers
      2. Labeled Groups
      3. Unlabeled Groups
    4. Dividers
      1. Alphabetical Dividers
      2. Collapsible Dividers
      3. Labeled Dividers
      4. Solid Dividers
    5. Panels
      1. Dashboard Panel
      2. Dialog
      3. Menu Panel
      4. Submenu
    6. Text
      1. Basic Text Styles
      2. Capitalization
      3. Fonts
      4. Truncation
    7. Widgets
      1. Button
      2. Check Box
      3. Date Picker
      4. Integer Picker
      5. Filter Field
      6. List Selector
      7. Progress Pill
      8. Radio Button
      9. Slider
      10. Spinner
      11. Text Field
      12. Time Picker
      13. Toggle Button
  20. D. News Application Source Code
    1. News Application Directory Structure
      1. news/app/assistants/app-assistant.js
      2. news/app/assistants/dashboard-assistant.js
      3. news/app/assistants/feedList-assistant.js
      4. news/app/assistants/preferences-assistant.js
      5. news/app/assistants/storyList-assistant.js
      6. news/app/assistants/storyView-assistant.js
      7. news/app/models/cookies.js
      8. news/app/models/feeds.js
      9. news/app/assistants/views/dashboard/dashboard-scene.html
      10. news/app/assistants/views/dashboard/item-info.html
      11. news/app/assistants/views/feedList/addFeed-dialog.html
      12. news/app/assistants/views/feedList/feedList-scene.html
      13. news/app/assistants/views/feedList/feedListTemplate.html
      14. news/app/assistants/views/feedList/feedRowTemplate.html
      15. news/app/assistants/views/preferences/preferences-scene.html
      16. news/app/assistants/views/storyList/storyList-scene.html
      17. news/app/assistants/views/storyList/storyListTemplate.html
      18. news/app/assistants/views/storyList/storyRowTemplate.html
      19. news/app/assistants/views/storyView/storyView-scene.html
      20. news/appinfo.json
      21. news/framework_config.json
      22. news/index.html
      23. news/resources/es_us/appinfo.json
      24. news/resources/es_us/strings.json
      25. news/resources/es_us/views/feedList/addFeed-dialog.html
      26. news/resources/es_us/views/feedList/feedList-scene.html
      27. news/resources/es_us/views/preferences/preferences-scene.html
      28. news/sources.json
      29. news/stylesheets/News.css
  21. Index
  22. About the Author
  23. Colophon
  24. Copyright
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