Looking for an opportunity to flex your webOS skills on a new app, but need a bit of inspiration to get your creative juices flowing? We’ve got the answer for you. For the next few weeks, we’re going to hold weekly, virtual, mini-hackathons around some cool aspects of webOS development you may not be familiar with yet.
Interested? Here’s how it works:
1) We announce the theme of the Weekly App Hack on the Developer Relations blog and post a bit of relevant code to help you do something fun and interesting with webOS. This will usually be on a Wednesday.
2) Start coding! You will have one week from the day we post the App Hack theme to develop your app and submit it to the App Catalog. This will be due 11:59pm California time on the following Tuesday (if the hackathon started on Wednesday). We will be accepting both new apps as well as incorporation of the theme into your existing apps as an improvement.
3) Once you have submitted your app to the app catalog, send an email to apphack@palm.com with your app redirect link and any extra description you want to share with us. This will also be due 11:59pm California time on the following Tuesday (if the hackathon started on Wednesday). Don’t worry, we’ll post the due date and time along with the theme on the Developer Relations blog. Note that you must send us this email for your app to be considered for the hackathon.
4) By the end of the day on Friday, the Developer Relations team will announce the winning app (along with honorable mentions and other entrants). The winner will get a blog post dedicated to him/her and his/her fantastic app. And for this first round, the winner will also receive a 32GB TouchPad!
We have started the webOS Weekly App Hack to encourage our fantastic developer community to think out of the box and develop in some fun and exciting new directions, and to give you a head start by presenting you with new code to work with. We look forward to seeing what comes out of the webOS Weekly App Hack!
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Creative.
Great idea! Looking forward to the first one…
This should be tied in with the HackingAutism.org initiative being championed by Phil McKinney. {Jonathan}
Very cool, hope I am able to try some of these out. (as in I hope they are not over my head all the time)
Will this be for Enyo apps or Mojo apps or both?
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where is the theme?
Nice! Now if only I had some webOS hardware to develop with.
Hopefully there’s also a condition that it’s a free app and the source is open so the rest of us can play with the app and learn from the code.
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TO HP Developers: Please consider a Weekly Hack assignment for the purpose of extending the functionality of the HP blue tooth keyboard. Its unfortunate that HP launched a product with only 50% of the utility it could have! Thank you.