Palm OS Developer's Guide

by Kris A. Jamsa and Lyssa Wald

Providing experienced developers with sophisticated techniques for exploiting the newest Palm OS architecture to build cutting-edge corporate and consumer applications, this book gives in-depth... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0072195630
• ISBN13: 9780072195637
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 800 Pages
• Weight: 2.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.4" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Faxes from my Palm

The book showed me how to send faxes from my Palm OS device--within applications and Web clippings ... Very easy ... I'm using the capability in several Web pages for my sales folks.

Acrobat and video on my Palm ... too cool

I've just gotton started with Web clippings. The book is packed with examples. One of the chapters mentioned that I can now create Adobe Acrobat documents for the Palm -- it was really easy. We are porting our documentation to Palm via PDF-like files (great quality and fast). I also learned how to convert AVI video files for use on the Palm. (Consumes quite a bit of memory -- but makes a great demo).

Remote file access applications open a range of solutions

Using code (and Active Server Pages) the book presents, I was able to write code that retrieves documents (word, excel, images, palm stuff too) my PC.Accessing my home PC was easy (no firewall). I changed the Active Server Page code some to work in the firewall environment at my office. Good stuff. The apps port easily to other handhelds such as the PocketPC

PQA's that upgrade themselves!

The problem with PQAs is they are difficult if not impossible to update after a user downloads and installs them.The book shows ways a PQA can upgrade itself--by testing if a newer version is available when the user starts the Web clipping. The code works -- is easy -- all PQAs should use it.The book also shows how the user can build a custom PQA. Cool!Highly recommend.

Excellent content for Web Clipping Developers

If you develop web clippings, you want this book on your bookshelf. The book focuses on network interactions -- shows you how to do just about anything a PC can do using a Palm ... This is the best the Web clipping content I have found. They should have called it Palm Web Clipping Deveoper's Guide. I'm very glad I found it.