Professional Palm OS Programming

by Glenn Bachmann and Lonnon R. Foster

Professional Palm OS Programming is everything programmers need to create applications for the world's most popular operating system for handheld devices. Veteran Palm developer Lonnon Foster, who has been developing commercial applications for the platform since its introduction nearly a decade ago, provides readers with hands-on instruction, lots of code, and advice that only comes from the trenches - giving readers everything they need to build...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076457373X
• ISBN13: 9780764573736
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Wrox Press
• Length: 954 Pages
• Weight: 3.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 7.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

PODS confusion.. decent book

I found this to be the only Palm Programming book available when I was attempting to learn to program my Palm. It certainly takes a bit of disassembling to figure out how the nuts and bolts work but it is actually a decent book. As previously mentioned, there seems to be a lack of info about the PODS compiler because most all of the samples are written for codewarrior. I found this to be a bit frustrating because I spent a lot of time reworking the resource files to make the samples work. Other than that, I would say the book covers quite a bit of material and is certainly ample for an intermediate programmer (with some C/C++ experience). If you are using the free Palm Developer Suite (PODS) just know that you will have to do a bit of reading on your own (reading Palm documentation) to figure out how to make things work. I'd like to see more samples.. perhaps I'll write a few myself and start a website to help other novices like me learn the basics.