Instant Palm OS Applications [With CDROM]

by Kris Jamsa

This text provides a comprehensive introduction to the Palm OS environment for programmers moving into the Palm arena. The CD contains all code from the book so developers can modify the applications... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0072193301
• ISBN13: 9780072193305
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media
• Length: 800 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Supports GCC!

Finally, a book that gives working versions of code for both the GCC and the Metrowerks environments. I've been battling converting Metrowerk projects into MAKE solutions. Getting the code for both was great. I am now using the trick the book presents in the database chapter to copyprotect my Palm shareware (the trick is to orphan a database). It's easy and effective.

thorough

I'm pretty impressed with this book. He presents entire programs and then analyzes the important and new lines in detail. It is pretty thorough, covering basic forms, databases, IR, tcp/ip, integration with palm os services like alarms, etc... but it also covers fun stuff like graphics, animation and simple game creation too. The only omissions I noted were sound and bitmaps, but these topics I found in sample code on the web. I bought palmos programming for dummies a year or two ago, sold it on eBay, and promised I would never touch C or palm programming again, but this book is clear enough to inspire the confidence to go at it again.

Graphics and Animation!

Folks say you can't program graphics on a handheld. Nonsense! Jamsa must agree -- he extends the Palm OS graphics library to support 3D graphics. Also discusses animations (actually object translation and scaling).

Great book for beginning palm programmers!!!!!

This book has actual working examples!! Other books I have seem only to show conceptually how the built in functions work, leaving out other important functions/information to get something working as desired. You can actually take what is shown and make it work how you want without trying to figure out what has been left out.

Discussion on IR Communications was just I Needed

I had less than a week to finish an application that used infrared (IR) to exchange data between palms. I was able to cut and paste code from the book's CD to finish my application in a few hours. The code works, the discussion is easy to follow!