You only sat down with Palm here during GDC as well as fished out the few some-more sum on a PDK beta front. Firstly, as well as many interestingly, Palm has confirmed that a PDK now works on all of the handsets (instead of only a Pre as well as Pre Plus), which means Pixi buyers can stop hating themselves pretty shortly. Assumingly a turn of opening degradation should be comparable iPhone 3G vs. 3GS, that doesn’t receptivetoadvice too horrible. This is functionality which wasn’t available even to Palm’s early PDK partners similarto EA and Gameloft, so we should be saying versions of existing games have a jump to a Pixi when a time for PDK beta-developed apps to strike a Palm App Catalog. When will that time come, we ask? A “center of the year,” or “the few months,” yesorno sounds more earnest to we. Palm’s not saying whether this brandnew era for a App Catalogue (anyone being able to recover PDK apps, and those ap ps working upon the Pre and the Pixi) will accompany the full-on webOS refurbish, but it seems logical to us.

Upon a some-more technical fr ont, we’re told the PDK supports a Linux standard SDL (Simple DirectMedia Covering to ease in porting and growth Imaginary for Linux runs using SDL, for example, as well as which developers could even build apps like an audio processor that rest on PDK components though don’t show up in a UI at all, or OpenGL-empowered things which aren’t necessarily games or in 3D. Additionally, existent developers have usually been able to do “full screen” games which rest upon PDK components alone, though a PDK beta lets you mix and compare webOS UI with PDK elements. Currently there aren’t many PDK games which makeuseof a extra Palm hardware similarto the QWERTY setofkeys and a gesticulate area, but we’re told that’s all exposed to a developer, along with any other element of webOS which Mojo SDK users have entrance to. Asingle notable plugin hangup is the fact which Peep usually functions in a browser, as well as can’t be embedded into a unchanging webOS app, PDK or no — though we have to assume this is something that’s in a works.