Ares: Palm’s Next Big Play for Developers

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This past November, Palm showed off Ares at the Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco. Ares is an entirely web based development platform for WebOS. It is designed to have everything a WebOS developer needs from Debugging to sharing libraries and APIs (application programming interfaces) amongst other developers. Ares will not require any downloads or configurations to work, everything is Web based including an innovative emulator that will allow developers to graphically build their applications by dragging and dropping components. Apps created in Ares can be packaged, downloaded, shared with friends or even submitted to Palm's App Catalog directly from within Ares. This is how Palm plans on increasing its developer base and competing against the likes of Android and the iPhone. Ares will be available to registered WebOS developers through Palm's developer site and will work on many browsers including Mozilla Firefox and Safari but, not Internet Explorer. Currently, a small number of developers are testing it now, while we can expect to see it released publicly before the end of this year.

Source: PCWorld