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Porting Applications to Palm OS® Cobalt

Exploring Palm OS®

This book is for developers of 68K-based Palm OS applications who wish to update their applications so that they run on Palm OS Cobalt. It discusses both how to update your application to run under the Palm OS Application Compatibility Environment (PACE) or how to rewrite it as an ARM-native application that can take full advantage of Palm OS Cobalt.

Developers who are new to Palm OS programming should focus on the other books in the Exploring Palm OS series instead.

The Exploring Palm OS Series ^TOP^

This book is a part of the Exploring Palm OS series. Together, the books in this series document and explain how to use the APIs exposed to third-party developers by the fully ARM-native versions of Palm OS, beginning with Palm OS Cobalt. Each of the books in the Exploring Palm OS series explains one aspect of the Palm operating system, and contains both conceptual and reference documentation for the pertinent technology.


IMPORTANT: The Exploring Palm OS series is intended for developers creating native applications for Palm OS Cobalt. If you are interested in developing applications that work through PACE and that also run on earlier Palm OS releases, read the latest versions of the Palm OS Programmer's API Reference and Palm OS Programmer's Companion instead.

As of this writing, the complete Exploring Palm OS series consists of the following titles:

  • Exploring Palm OS: Programming Basics
  • Exploring Palm OS: Memory, Databases, and Files
  • Exploring Palm OS: User Interface
  • Exploring Palm OS: User Interface Guidelines (coming soon)
  • Exploring Palm OS: System Management
  • Exploring Palm OS: Text and Localization
  • Exploring Palm OS: Input Services
  • Exploring Palm OS: High-Level Communications
  • Exploring Palm OS: Low-Level Communications
  • Exploring Palm OS: Telephony and SMS
  • Exploring Palm OS: Multimedia
  • Exploring Palm OS: Security and Cryptography
  • Exploring Palm OS: Creating a FEP (coming soon)
  • Exploring Palm OS: Porting Applications to Palm OS Cobalt
  • Exploring Palm OS: Palm OS File Formats

Additional Resources ^TOP^

Changes to This Document ^TOP^

This section describes the changes made in each version of this document.

3119-002 ^TOP^

Minor editorial corrections.

3119-001 ^TOP^

The first release of this document for Palm OS Cobalt, version 6.0.