Ares Released as Public Beta



Today, Palm has officially released Ares as a public beta. We've known about Ares around here for a little while now and it looks like it delivers on everything it promises and more. But, for those unfamiliar with it, Ares is as Palm puts it "the first mobile development environment hosted entirely in a browser". This gives WebOS developers a significant advantage because most are jumping over from straight web developing to mobile app development. This is of course a first for mobile app development and It's quite innovative. As far as the experience goes it is a pleasure to use and frankly, simple user interfaces can be made in less than a minute. Ares sports an intuitive drag and drop functionality when creating the user interface, this is particularly useful for dragging widgets onto a scene. Overall, the first impressions of Ares are impressive and simply leave other smartphone platform's SDK in awe. Keep in mind, this is only a beta and the final release is certainly something for developers to look forward to. You can login or signup here.