Thread: Palm WebOS on N900
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2012-02-01 , 15:39
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Originally Posted by marmistrz View Post
Does anybody know a way to run hybrid apps (type = "web", the ones with index.html) via preenv?
If we managed to run hybrid apps, we'd be able to port app catalog and then lots of apps
You can't. preenv just adds libraries and environment variables so the N900 can run binaries written for WebOS under their Native Development Kit (NDK).

This only works because the WebOS devices and the N900 share almost identical hardware and both use a POSIX compliant file system for binary execution.

In short: dumb luck.

What you call "Hybrid apps", are actually WebOS Mojo apps written under the WebOS Software Development Kit (SDK). Apps written under this are heavily dependant on WebOS only libraries and operating system structure that can not be replicated from within Maemo5.

So far, it seems that the newer Enyo built WebOS apps, seen on the HP Touchpad and Pre3, are built fundamentally similar to the older Mojo apps and are therefore also impracticable for running under Maemo5.
 

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