DeviceAnywhere Opens Palm Virtual Developer Lab

Posted By: Ryan Kairer Tuesday, May 20, 2008 10:34:37 AM

DeviceAnywhere has unveiled its new public Palm Virtual Developer Lab (VDL) – a remote testing service designed to reduce the time and resources required to develop, test, monitor, and deploy applications and content for Palm smartphones. The on-line service is available globally to all developers who register for DeviceAnywhere's Palm package and provides support for in-market devices released by the Palm, including the Treo 755p and the new Palm Centro.

DeviceAnywhere is a online service that provides access to more than 1000 real handsets, on live worldwide mobile networks, remotely over the Internet, meeting all development, porting, testing, and monitoring needs. Unlike emulator/simulator-based solutions, DeviceAnywhere employs real, physical handsets – so anything that a user can do with a device in his/her hand, he/she can do with the handsets in DeviceAnywhere – in real-time. This includes tasks such as pressing device buttons, tapping on touch screens, connecting/disconnecting the battery, viewing the LCD, listening to ringers and speakers, and opening/closing a handset.

DeviceAnywhere Opens Palm Virtual Developer Lab

Beyond remote access, developers can also perform automated testing through DeviceAnywhere Pro, and perform 24x7 Quality of Service (QoS) monitoring through DeviceAnywhere Monitoring, to ensure ongoing quality and availability of their products.

"Through the DeviceAnywhere service, developers get the benefits of testing their application on multiple devices through the convenience of their desktop development environment", said Mark Bercow, Palm SVP, business development. "The service also allows Palm to make devices available to thousands of developers who request devices for their development purposes."

To access the Palm Virtual Developer Lab, users simply register by selecting the Palm VDL option on DeviceAnywhere's Web site. Once registered, users are able to access Palm devices within the Virtual Developer Lab, press buttons, view LCD displays, and listen to ringers and speakers. Additional DeviceAnywhere features – such as monitoring and test automation – are also available on all Palm Virtual Developer Lab smartphones, empowering users to more efficiently create better applications and content for the marketplace.

DeviceAnywhere will create complimentary accounts for all members of the Palm Developer Network (PDN) program, as well as fund each account with three free hours with which to use the service. Further, DeviceAnywhere representatives will host training sessions to educate PDN members on how to sign up for and use the solution, as well as provide customer support each week from 12:00 am PST Monday through 5:00 pm PST Friday.

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Virtual Centro on VZW

palmit @ 5/20/2008 3:00:26 PM # Q
Maybe I can signup for a virtual Centro and make believe its on VZW.

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SeldomVisitor @ 5/20/2008 3:11:59 PM # Q
So this joint uses REAL phones for developers to test their software on remotely.

Can ya imagine trying to get "device time" when everyone else is, too?

Oh.

Wait.

We're talking Palm, right?

Nevermind!

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PhrkOnLsh @ 5/24/2008 8:40:45 PM # Q
Where do they say they use real phones?

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cervezas @ 5/25/2008 1:11:43 AM # Q
Yeah, that's exactly what they do. I saw some of their hardware last year and they physically solder in connections to the video controllers and hardware switches to these devices attached to web servers so the screen can be streamed over the web and the device be controlled remotely. They have "farms" of these handsets in different locations (around the world?) so you can test your app on devices for different operator networks. It's pretty ingenious, really.

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SeldomVisitor @ 5/25/2008 10:44:41 AM # Q
Speaking of reality...

Is it time to start making REAL noise about getting the source code for Nova?

Or for that matter, ALP?

Maybe a quickie email to The Free Software Foundation might get things moving, huh?

GPL rules, and all that.

ALP =REAL= soon (if that Access guy's words about a phone soon to be available with it plays out), Nova by end of year or so?

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hkklife @ 5/25/2008 1:31:55 PM # Q
Hey Beersie, good to see ya back on PIC.

You at liberty to drop any hints/tidbits on what you're currently up to? Anything that might be of interest to the PIC faithful etc?



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twrock @ 5/25/2008 7:57:10 PM # Q
Re: the comments about GPL and source code, I am sure that both Palm and ACCESS will comply with the GPL and release the required source code. (However, as I am sure you quite well know, just because you use some GPL code for some of the software used by your company does not mean that all software ever written by your company has to become GPL and you have to release the source code for everything else you write.) SV, do you actually have plans for how you will make use of the ALP and Nova source code? Are you going to develop something for either platform?


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SeldomVisitor @ 5/26/2008 6:47:08 AM # Q
Plans for the source? No. I am not a phone-software developer, certainly not a phone operating system software developer (though, of course, I =could= be - no need to repeat and enhance the details about my background and education a-GAIN, right? Giggle). My (semi-joking) interest in this is just to see how far they both will go to try to get around the license terms they theoretically are supposed to adhere to.

The GPL says something like:

== "If you keep YOUR software separate from GPLed software, then you
== can keep your software secret. But if you don't, you can't - you must
== make available (to everyone forever) the source for your changes/enhancements
== as soon as you have released the binary version"

Colligan must be turning over in his grave about that.

Without going over the GPL with a fine-toothed legal-mindset comb this probably means that any static code that PALM has added to the Linux core, any deletions and additions, MUST be available as source. I didn't carefully read the GPL about how DYNAMIC code is handled but I believe the GPL has words about just how "separate" things have to be before you can keep them secret (that is, you can't put just about EVERYTHING in a dynamically-loaded module then claim that your almost-boot loader is the only static part that needs its source code released...).

Anyway, come "late calendar year 2008" when the new OS is supposed to be...er..."ready but not seen", I would bet bucks that PALM will be VERY restrictive in its ... er ... "readyness" to make sure it is still "under development", thus considered by the GPL to not yet having been released.


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twrock @ 5/27/2008 10:58:33 PM # Q
== "If you keep YOUR software separate from GPLed software, then you
== can keep your software secret. But if you don't, you can't - you must
== make available (to everyone forever) the source for your changes/enhancements
== as soon as you have released the binary version"

I'm not sure why you would put your interpretation of what the GPL says into quotes and in a standout form. Typically people put something in quotes is because they are actually quoting something else. But just to clarify and make sure I am understanding you, you are in no way trying to imply that the statement above is what the GPL actually says, are you? (And if I am wrong about that, can you give me a link to that quote?) Thanks.


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SeldomVisitor @ 5/28/2008 6:57:35 AM # Q
Huh?

[and to pointedly note - why are you bothering with these questions? Really? Why? For what reasons? Contemplate your navel.]

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twrock @ 5/28/2008 11:44:29 AM # Q
Contemplate your navel.

No need. It hasn't changed at all since the last time I glanced at it.


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