Developer's Guides

Palm OS Companion and Reference (PDF | HTML Download | HTML Browse)

This comprehensive set of developer guides describes the structure of a C-based Palm OS application, the tools and mechanisms for managing application resources such as strings and graphics for easy localization, instructions for packaging and building applications, an overview of the Palm OS toolkit running on Eclipse, a comprehensive API Reference guide, and sample code that walks through every part of the API. This is the right guide to use if you are targeting your application to Palm devices running version 5.x of the Palm OS.

Palm OS User Interface Guidelines (PDF | HTML)

This guide provides a series of recommendations that will help make your applications for Palm OS more intuitive to users and flow more effectively with other applications running on the device.

Using WebSphere Studio Device Developer to Build Embedded Java Applications

The IBM J9 Java Virtual Machine is Palms recommended Java ME environment for running on Palm OS devices. This IBM Redbook describes the process of using the IBM toolset to build a standard J2ME application for execution on both Palm OS and Pocket PC devices. See Appendix B for instructions on installing the JVM and Java ME applications on a Palm OS device.