Palm OS Applications

The Palm OS platform has defined the trends and expectations for mobile computing - from the way people use handhelds as personal organizers to the use of mobile information devices as essential business tools, and even the ability to access the Internet or a central corporate database via a wireless connection.

CodeWarior for Palm OS is the official development environment for the Palm OS. Endeavour palm developers use CodeWarior as it has the distinction of being the most favored environment by Palm Computing. This commercial development environment allows out palm developers to create ANSI C and C++ programs on either Windows or Macintosh systems. It currently includes Palm's Conduit Software Development Kit. Endeavour Palm developers code are written based on the Palm OS and no separate runtime component is installed on the device. As a result, the resulting application is usually small and efficient.

Metrowerks CodeWarrior has traditionally been the tool for programming on Palm Powered devices by our palm developers. Our developers also use the Palm OS Developer Suite, which is based on the open-source Eclipse IDE. Both have different ways of building source code and resources into binaries.

	Delivering Palm OS development environments and tools
	Development environments are available for creating Palm OS applications in a number of different languages, such as C, C++, Visual Basic or Java. In addition, powerful development tools will help development begin immediately.
	1. Palm OS Emulator
	The Palm OS Emulator is software that emulates the target system's underlying hardware. Running under Windows, Mac OS or Unix, the emulator is extremely valuable for writing, testing and debugging applications programs.
	2. Palm OS Simulator
	The Palm OS Simulator is a version of the Palm OS running on a development system. It contains the Palm Application Compatibility Environment (PACE) and can be used to quickly debug application programs. The 68k emulation environment (PACE) implements a debugger nub to match that of a 68k device. As a result, you can connect to the Palm OS Simulator in the exact same way that you would to the Palm OS Emulator.

3. CodeWarrior for Palm OS Platform
CodeWarrior is an integrated development environment (IDE) from MetroWerks, a third-party supplier of development tools. This complete IDE includes an editor, project manager, C/C++ compiler, linker and target device interface that enables source and assembly level debugging. PalmSource offers the free Palm OS SDK for use with CodeWarrior.

4. Palm OS SDK for CodeWarrior
This free SDK from PalmSource contains headers, libraries, and tools for Palm OS platform development on Windows, Mac OS, or Unix platforms. The Palm OS SDKs do not include a build environment.

5. PRC-Tools: GCC Development Tools for Palm OS
PRC-Tools is a complete compiler tool chain for building Palm OS applications in C or C++. The PRC-Tools package includes patched versions of the GNU packages GCC, binutils, GDB, and various post-linker tools. It is free software. Visit PRC-Tools for the latest version of PRC-Tools and for installation instructions for the latest version.