Tech savvies yearning for some new details from the field of technology can lay their eyes on this one. Upcoming features in the next version of PalmwebOS were talked about in the Palm Developer Day, reports Pre Central.
Palm is all set to provide some new APIs to developers for crafting richer apps. One of them is claimed to be a low-level microphone and camera access. Palm is also going to come up with a media indexer for creating music and video apps. A new crypto/security APIs and also support for Bonjour/Zeroconf could arrive. Moreover, Palm is all set to deliver a Bluetooth Serial Port Profile.
Additionally, Palm is considerably extending and enhancing their background services, transferring them from java to javascript. This could hypothetically enable data-intensive apps to be more responsive. A vital feature to be introduced is the db8. It is a new backend interface for apps to hoard and sync information on the handset. The new service provides swift, easy and dependable sync services for syncing locally stored data with a CouchDB database in the cloud. It is ‘pluggable’ on the backend for users’ option of storage techniques.
Furthermore, the next version of Palm webOS would be equipped with superior features coming out from HTML5. Another new service would be Mojo Core. With this new tool, developers can include Mojo services such as geolocation, local storage, app cache, and even user interface elements with simply some few lines of code in their present web app. Also, it is claimed that the new version of PalmwebOS would boast of a superior App Catalog interface.
Palm is allegedly optimizing and speeding up webOS on practically each and every front.