Palm Project Ares SDK Beta Open to the Public

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As you already heard, the Palm Pre Plus is coming at some point in the near future which means webOS developers should be even more interested in creating ingenious applications for future Palm smartphones.

Palm seems to think similarly as it has launched a new SDK for developers. Project Ares is opened for the public and it could be exactly what developers were looking for. Project Ares is the “first mobile development environment hosted entirely in a browser, lowering the barriers for web developers to jump into mobile development.”

Palm’s intention is to make it as easy as possible for developers to create and test applications for its phones. Project Ares is a step in the right direction and as you can see from the screenshot above, Project Ares is a completely web-based developing environment. Developers should be able to move “quickly and seamlessly from editing in a browser, to debugging on a device, to selling applications in Palm’s App Catalog or on the web.”

Project Ares is now available for public beta so all you have to do in order to start testing it is sign in with your Palm developer account.

Here’s what features you can expect from Project Ares once you sign in:

• Complete integrated development environment

• Drag-and-drop interface builder
• Code editor
• Visual debugger
• Log viewer
• Source control integration

• Fingertip access to the full library of Mojo UI widgets
• Push-button project & scene creation
• Drag-and-drop file upload
• Instant project upload & download for seamless desktop/cloud workflow
• Preview apps in the browser
• Run apps directly on the webOS emulator or device (requires SDK installation)
• Use Ares in Safari, Chrome or Firefox

In case you manage to create some totally cool apps with help of this new Project Ares, we won’t mind taking a look. But mind you, constructive criticism will apply!