While we haven’t heard much from Access Linux Platform in the last months, the last few days brought along a load of ALP-related news. Here’s a quick roundup:
Access distributes developer tools to the masses
While ALP developer tools were available to a select minority of developers since last summer, the company has now released them to the “wider public”. Interested developers can register themselves at a new web site called ADN, and can then proceed to downloading an ALP SDK and a so-called Garnet VM compatibility kit.
P.S. It looks like the “legacy” Palm OS documentation is available from this web site, too.
P.S.2 ALP developer documentation can be downloaded without registration.
ALP integrated into MontaVista Mobile Linux
Access and MontaVista have ganged up by creating a version of ALP that can run on top of MontaVista’s Mobile Linux kernel. As MontaVista has a pretty large user base(among Linux phones), this has the potential to ease ALP device creation significantly!
Orange plans ALP handset in “summer”
The folks at BrightHand’s have managed to scoop up that Orange is planning to offer an ALP-powered device “this summer”. They claim that the operating system will debut on a yet-unreleased Samsung box called i800(so, it’s not the Haier phone that they used for testing).
As of now, no further information is available…please stay tuned!
Last but not least, here’s an ALP stack diagram from an official Access Co PDF – the Palm OS components are in the small rectangle on the top left…while the big rectangle on the right is all dedicated to NetFront….I guess we shouldn’t have any problems surfing the web with ALP boxen…:
Thanks to AlphasmartUser for pointing this out!
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