Palm has now launched their “Plug-in Development Kit” (PDK) for the Palm Pre. The PDK is based on the following core technologies:
- GCC for compiling C/C++ code to ARM native code
- SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer), a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low-level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL ES, and a 2D video frame buffer
So, you can now finally develop C/C++ applications for the “web-only” Palm Pre device. It will be interesting to see how much developer interest there will be for the Palm PDK once it’s released publicly in Q2 2010.