Developer community - how (and where) are they today?

[Sarah]

Hello, is this the best place to connect with people developing for
Palm or Smartphones?

Any other good places?

I would like to try deveoping a small independent app for a pda or
smartphone. It's been years since I looked into this, and it seems
like there's not much activity in this area any more? Is this
correct?

I want to find out if people are still making independent programs for
Palm or other PDAs or Smartphones. Do people still buy shareware? It
was once possible to make modest money deveoping for Palm, as an
independent developer. How are things today?

[brit...@gmail.com]

Here is where I found. http://news.palmos.com/read/?forum=palm-dev-forum
They still have posts as recent as yesterday. (Apr 24, 2008)

To answer your other questions...

Not much activity anymore, but there are stll active participants.

As for making money at it? I don't know the first thing to do to
distribute an independent app as I work at a company that does custom
Palm OS apps. I know Palmgear used to be the #1 site to list your
apps, but I think they got bought by PocketGear.

[John]

Some projects for embedded devices (Palm talks to some device) but the
big sites that sold "everything Palm" (palmgear, handango, etc) don't
have much anymore.

Smartphones are often limited to what the carrier will allow (sold by
or downloaded from the carrier's site).

I still do a little Palm controller development for a traffic control
device, but no longer enough to pay for my DSL service...

If you want an easy introduction to programming the Palm, download the
trial version of NSBasic/Palm at www.nsbasic.com/palm The things you
crfeate with the trial version expire in 4 or 5 days, but you can test
all the features. Here's some sample programs done with NSBasic:
http://www.jecarter.us/nsbsource.html

John

[Sarah]

On May 5, 4:43 pm, John <l...@sig.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:33:50 -0700 (PDT), Sarah
>

> <sarah_sonder...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >Hello, is this the best place to connect with people developing for
> >Palm or Smartphones?
>
> >Any other good places?
>
> >I would like to try deveoping a small independent app for a pda or
> >smartphone. It's been years since I looked into this, and it seems
> >like there's not much activity in this area any more? Is this
> >correct?
>
> >I want to find out if people are still making independent programs for
> >Palm or other PDAs or Smartphones. Do people still buy shareware? It
> >was once possible to make modest money deveoping for Palm, as an
> >independent developer. How are things today?
>
> Some projects for embedded devices (Palm talks to some device) but the
> big sites that sold "everything Palm" (palmgear, handango, etc) don't
> have much anymore.
>
> Smartphones are often limited to what the carrier will allow (sold by
> or downloaded from the carrier's site).
>
> I still do a little Palm controller development for a traffic control
> device, but no longer enough to pay for my DSL service...
>
> If you want an easy introduction to programming the Palm, download the

> trial version of NSBasic/Palm atwww.nsbasic.com/palm The things you

> crfeate with the trial version expire in 4 or 5 days, but you can test
> all the features. Here's some sample programs done with NSBasic:http://www.jecarter.us/nsbsource.html
>
> John

Thanks John. It doesn't seem like it's worth the effort, if the bottom
has fallen out of the palm as a commercial platform to develop for....

Thanks