Enyo introduces Moonstone, Spotlight and Enyo 2.4.

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The Enyo team is introducing today Moonstone an innovative, beautiful, full-featured UI library for building TV apps. Spotlight, a library enabling apps to support key-based navigation — a must for TV, where users often have nothing more than simple up-down-left-right controls and (version 2.4.0-pre.1) of Enyo and its libraries so that you can easily explore docs and samples on the Enyo site. They are also updating Bootplate starter kit and created a Moonstone-specific version of it, so you can grab a mobile-centric or a TV-centric Enyo distribution directly from the site if you’re so inclined.

Moonstone and Spotlight are certainly highlights of Enyo 2.4

Press Release:

It has been an exciting few months for the Enyo team. First, late last year, we broke a long silence with the public release of Enyo 2.3.0-pre.10. Then, in January we celebrated the unveiling of the webOS-powered 2014 LG Smart TV at CES. Today, we’re thrilled to finally give everyone a closer look at what we’ve been working on for the last year.

Moonstone

In conjunction with the rebirth of webOS as a platform for smart TV, we’ve built Moonstone: an innovative, beautiful, full-featured UI library for building TV apps. Moonstone features a comprehensive set of UI widgets optimized for TV and a fresh take on the panel-based navigation that has been a hallmark of Enyo since Enyo 1. Moonstone panels support two distinct user interaction patterns — an “always viewing” pattern for lean-back experiences, and an “activity” pattern for more active engagement with an app. Moonstone comes out of the box with light and dark themes and is easily customized to make your app stand out. It also has robust support for internationalization, including widgets that work in both left-to-right and right-to-left contexts.

Spotlight

To go along with Moonstone, we’ve developed Spotlight, a library enabling apps to support key-based navigation — a must for TV, where users often have nothing more than simple up-down-left-right controls. Spotlight uses a nearest-neighbor algorithm to automatically determine where to move focus each time the user presses a key, minimizing developer effort. That said, it’s fully customizable, giving you fine-grained control over how users interact with your app. Spotlight switches seamlessly between pointer-based and key-based navigation, ensuring that users have the best possible experience on devices that support both modes. Spotlight support is baked into Moonstone widgets, but Spotlight has been designed to work with any Enyo UI library.

Cross-Platform and Open-Source

Moonstone and Spotlight will of course power the core apps for the next generation of LG Smart TVs and be the centerpiece of the forthcoming webOS TV SDK — but they’re not just for LG or webOS. In keeping with our deep commitment to supporting cross-platform development, Moonstone and Spotlight are open-source and available for use on any platform.

With CES behind us, today we’ve made the GitHub repositories forMoonstone and Spotlight public. Continuing work on Moonstone and Spotlight will be done in full view, just as it is for Enyo and its other libraries. We’ve not yet had a chance to do extensive testing or optimization on non-webOS platforms, but we’ve been developing with cross-platform support in mind and are excited to see Moonstone apps running on all types of big screens.

Enyo 2.4

In addition to flipping the GitHub repos public, we’ve prepared another pre-release (version 2.4.0-pre.1) of Enyo and its libraries so that you can easily explore docs and samples on the Enyo site. We’ve also updated our Bootplate starter kit and created a Moonstone-specific version of it, so you can grab a mobile-centric or a TV-centric Enyo distribution directly from the site if you’re so inclined.

While Moonstone and Spotlight are certainly highlights of Enyo 2.4, you may be just as interested in the robust new data-layer support you’ll find in this release. Enyo 2.4 has support for observers, one- and two-way bindings, computed properties, models and collections, and a set of new data-aware UI controls.

Astute observers will note that we’ve skipped straight from a 2.3 pre-release to a 2.4 pre-release. Moonstone, Spotlight and the new data-layer support will technically debut in Enyo 2.3, which is in its final release-candidate stage as we speak — but the schedule for Enyo 2.3 is tightly bound to the release and production schedule for the LG webOS TV and therefore has a life of its own. As we continue to shepherd Enyo 2.3 through this process, we’ve decided to move forward with Enyo 2.4 and make that release our primary focus for the cross-platform Enyo community.

We hope you’ll be as excited as we are about Enyo 2.4, Moonstone and Spotlight, and we’re eager to get your feedback. Here are some quick links for exploring what’s new:

• Enyo 2.4 Sampler with Moonstone
• Moonstone Tutorial
• Get Enyo 2.4
• Data Layer docs
• Enyo 2.4 docs

If you’re in the San Francisco area today or tomorrow, be sure to stop byApps World at Moscone Center West and say hello. You’ll find us alongside our webOS colleagues in the LG booth.

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CES 2014: LG webOS 4.0 Smart TV finally to debut. Confirmed. To revive Palm/Enyo development efforts.

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LG researcher Hong Sung-pyo, speaking at a semiconductor event in Seoul, Korea, said LG`s first webOS product will be a new Smart TV  to unveil at the CES 2014 January 7-10.

LG said it was revamping the interface used by Palm and HP for phones and tablets, adding that it will be "a gamechanger." 

LG Electronics Smart TV applications, such as broadcasting and content in hopes of making it easy to switch between multi-tasking with a focus on the development and progression.

LG Electronics is showcasing a  ARM-based Web OS-based smart TV with  a dual-core 2.2GHz processor and 1.5GB RAM in.

Hong also said LG is going to revive Palm / HP's Enyo development efforts. Enyo is an open-source JavaScript framework for cross-platform applications, and it appears that LG will ask third parties to develop applications using Enyo.

The webOS version after all the improvements the developers team have made LG said is a 4.0 version at this time.

To discuss about this post please we invite you to go to :webosnation forums

Source: ZDNet Korea

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• 2014: LG to show-off its next generation TV with webOS/Enyo work at the Apps World in SF.
• CES 2104: LG to show up Premium Smart TV with advanced speech, and gesture recognition running in NEW OS (Palm webOS?)
• Where is Palm webOS now?

2014: LG to show-off its next generation TV with webOS/Enyo work at the Apps World in SF.

2014: LG to show-off its next generation TV with webOS/Enyo work at the Apps World in SF. 

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LG’s Director of the Enyo Framework and Tools, Gray Norton (GN),answered questions made by  DeveloperTech (DT) about the company’s recent SDK update and what it means for the future of TV development.

The question:

DT: LG is attending AppsWorld in San Francisco next year; can you speak a little about your participation there?

The answer:

GN: We will be able to show-off at that point all the work we have been doing on the next-generation LG TV. We’ll also be showing not only the types of apps that can be built but also talking to developers about the framework and how to build them.

One of the interesting things about the Enyo framework we use is that it’s loosely coupled with WebOS but it can be used separate as well. It’s a cross-platform framework so the promise is developers can use Enyo to build apps that run on LG Smart TVs but can be run on other TV platforms as well; potentially including the types of devices such as consoles.

Source: developer-tech

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Where is Palm webOS now?

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Want to know where is webOS now? It is with Enyo on LG Silicon Valley Labs. What is that?

Silicon Valley Lab (SVL) is LG Electronics’ (LG) Silicon Valley-based research and development lab. LG sees the web as the platform of the future. LG mission is to make the web standard on all of LG’s devices. LG also believe that innovation should be based on open standards and available to a wide range of devices. 

This is what LG says about the LG Lab site in the USA:

"LG’s investment in webOS and SVL broadens our company’s leadership in consumer electronics. We are developing exciting and innovative technologies that provide consumers with a more intuitive experience across a wide range of products."

webOS

The next generation, web-centric platform built to run on a wide range of form factors. It is a proven operating system that enables users to deliver the same seamless and intuitive interactions everywhere. There are exciting developments in the works and we’ll keep you posted.

In the meantime, if you want to get a feel for some of what webOS has to offer, check out our free and open source version, Open webOS.

www.openwebosproject.org

Enyo

Enyo is a JavaScript app framework helping developers build native-quality HTML5 apps that run everywhere — from phones and tablets to PCs and TVs. Originally developed for the HP TouchPad, Enyo has powered thousands of webOS apps. Now available for cross-platform development, Enyo supports virtually every major mobile and desktop platform. Enyo's elegant component model makes it simple to build and maintain even the most complex application, as well as create components you can reuse and share with other developers. As an Apache 2 licensed open-source project, Enyo is 100% free to download and use.

www.enyojs.com

In February 25th,2013, LG Electronics Acquired webOS from HP to Enhance Smart TV since then we have had just some leaked pictures of webOS running on a Oracle VM VirtualBox using Ares for a  LG smart TV launcher emulator. However it seems LG 3D Smart TV with webOS on, stills on the way as you can notice on the above LG 3D TV remote control picture. 

Source: LG

Related posts:
LG Electronics Inc. has acquired the webOS operating system technology from HP.

For 2014: LG´s smart TV with webOS platform.

Video: First pictures of LG webOS Smart TV launcher on emulator.

Looking for someone to build your Enyo app?

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Looking for someone to build your Enyo app? 

Enyo has launched an Enyo developer directory. Companies from the USA and Europe are on the list:

Enyo Developer Directory | Enyo

And Enyo has made an announcement about it and more:

Announcing the Enyo Developer Directory

When we’re out and about, we tend to meet a lot of talented and successful developers doing great things with Enyo — and looking for opportunities to do more.

We also run into people who have great ideas (or pressing needs) for apps, but don’t have resources in-house to take on an Enyo project.

Being of the problem-solving type, we realized we could do something to bring these folks together. Here it is: the Enyo Developer Directory.

If you’re looking for a top-notch Enyo developer in Europe or the US, odds are you’ll find one here. And if you’re a developer who belongs on this list, please send us a note (enyojs@palm.com) to learn more.

P.S: While we were gathering contact info for the directory, we took the opportunity to collect some great new quotes from Enyo developers. Check them out on our updated Testimonials page!

Announcing the Enyo Developer Directory | The Enyo Blog

There is also a Enyo apps showcase here:

http://blog.enyojs.com/tagged/app-showcase

Palm is now GRAM a new brand and company with HP webOS, Enyo and Cloud strengths.

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Palm is now GRAM a new brand and company with HP webOS, Enyo and Cloud strengths.

Palm is now transforming in a new brand and company GRAM with the core strengths of webOS, Enyo and Cloud offerings.

“GRAM is a new company. We are in stealth mode on our product offering.”

 We are no longer a consumer hardware brand, we are a different company with focus on software, User Experience, Cloud, engineering and partnering. This change in identity will take some getting used to and that’s normal, says  HP's webOS Global Business Unit  Chief of Staff Martin Risau.

This news come ahead of the launch of HP webOS as an OpenSource OS next month. The sad  side , no more webOS hardware, maybe.

Hi everyone,

Thank you for all of your enthusiasm at yesterday’s new brand announcement: GRAM.  We hope you will fall in love with the brand just as lots of us have already.

Please note that our Mission, Values and Plan of Action are the same. We are continuing to march forward on our timelines as usual—nothing new there.

We have much work to do, and, again, I solicit your help.

Yes, this is a new brand—it is just the beginning, and there is so much more to do. And yet unveiling the new brand is also a Call to Action:

Try it on. We don’t expect you to love it overnight. We are no longer a consumer hardware brand, we are a different company with focus on software, User Experience, Cloud, engineering and partnering. This change in identity will take some getting used to and that’s normal.

Stealth mode. We are an incubation company, and we are trusting you to keep this company name and product under the radar to give it time to take root and grow. You can wear the logo, help build the momentum of the new identity, talk to your families and friends about it. If someone from the outside asks, you can say, “GRAM is a new company. We are in stealth mode on our product offering.”

Tap your network. Help us hire the best and the brightest, refer your friends and help us in our shared purpose as we continue our rise to the top. You can use the name to help us to recruit.

Be the culture. Spread our Values:  People Matter. Integrity and Trust. Deliberate Innovation. Act small, deliver big.

For those of you who could not attend yesterday’s unveiling – we really missed you.  Please be on the lookout for the gift bags with our new cool branded items, which we be mailing out to you this and next week.  All of you should get one, if not – let me know.

Best

Martin

Source: webOSNation

Enyo Touch Joystick app for webOS 3.0.5 tested.

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Enyo Touch Joystick app for webOS 3.0.5  tested.

Touch Joystick Enyo app has been tested on webOS 3.0.5 platform ,  and on Chrome 18 (windows ,Linux), Firefox (windows,Linux).

It is a onscreen controller for games and other apps that would use a joystick. When moving the joystick, the kind will send events for all analog movements and digital events.

Source: Enyo apps gallery

May Open HP webOS Update. Enyo speakers at Fluent conference in SF.

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May Open HP webOS Update. Enyo speakers at Fluent conference in SF.

The Open webOS project Blog  has posted an update  about what are they doing at this time on the webOS Open source project, how is Enyo moving ahead, adding new members to the team and keeping September as the target for Open webOS 1.0 release.

Original post:

May Open webOS Update.

This month the Open webOS team is hard at work. Although there aren’t any scheduled code releases for May we are working hard in three areas. 

1.       We are still on target for the September release of Open webOS 1.0. and growing our relationship with the community, including our continued collaboration with the WebOS internals team. More news on that to follow next month. We were also delighted to be featured in LinuxPro magazine for the Isis browser we released last month. http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/News/Isis-Browser-Code-Released

2.       Our sister project Enyo is moving ahead full steam as well. Momentum has been growing behind Enyo and we are looking to increase its visibility by sponsoring the upcoming Fluent conference in San Francisco. I will be presenting “Enyo - A truly cross-platform JavaScript app framework” and Ben Combee will be presenting “A Deeper Look at the Enyo JavaScript Framework”, so come out and meet with us. We’re excited to meet more JavaScript engineers and look forward to demonstrate Enyo’s latest features. (See their brief profiles below after the break)

3.       In addition to the Enyo open source engineering effort, our cloud services organization is beginning development on a set of Enyo API’s.  While we don’t yet have specific functionality to share or a timeline for delivering these new services, we want to let you know that we’re thinking creatively about how all of webOS’s capabilities can come together to add value to the developer experience.

To make all this happen, we are adding more members to our team. If you would like to contribute to the success of Open webOS (and get paid for it) please check out our job listings. And of course, all are welcome to contribute to the code through Github.

As we move into summer, expect us to increase our outreach out more and more, as we present our vision for Open webOS and Enyo to the world. This week I am attending the Open Source Business conference in San Francisco and we are busy planning other events that we will be attending. Local meetups are continuing and I’m looking forward to attending the Chicago WebOS meetup on June 3^rd and speaking at the Nodejs meetup on June 19^th.

Exciting times are ahead for Open WebOS!

Ben Combee (HP / Palm) 

A Deeper Look at the Enyo JavaScript Framework

Ben Combee is the techie face of the HP webOS framework team, both as a coder and presenter. He been doing developer activities as part of the Palm & webOS world since leading the Codewarrior for Palm OS team at Metrowerks in the early 2000′s. He’s also worked at Mozilla in their mobile browser and done open source hardware hacking with NYC Resistor in Brooklyn.

Adam Crabtree (webOS Enyo Framework Team)

Functional programming with Streams in Node.js

Office Hour with Adam Crabtree

Adam Crabtee works for HP webOS on node.js supporting the Enyo.js framework. He runs BayNode, and founded Dallas.node. He authored an asynchronous trycatch library for node.js, and is working to bring package management to the browser via tiki.js. Currently, he is working on Hermes, a pluggable VFS back-end and API for Ares, the Enyo.js browser-based IDE.

Find him at @CrabDude and infrequently at http://noderiety.com

Enda McGrath (Enyo)

Enyo: A Truly Cross-platform JavaScript App Framework

As a veteran of the mobile industry with over a decade at Palm, Enda leads the Developer Relations team at HP that supports both the Enyo and Open webOS product lines. He began his professional career as an electronic engineer before switching to web development. In2010, he began working on Palm’s line of PDAs and smart phones, ultimately returning to his passion for web technologies with the introduction of webOS. He has spent the last 4 years developing WebOS from the ground up and supporting its enthusiastic developer community.

UPDATED: Rumors: Is HP webOS Enyo team going to Google ?

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UPDATES:  Sources close to HP tell us that it won't be the entire Enyo team leaving, though Matt McNulty — the man in charge of the project — will be among the departing crew.

We've now received an official statement from HP, which references the roadmap (with September release) announced back in January:

We're pleased with the traction Enyo has gained to date and plan to continue its development along with the open source community. The Open webOS project is on schedule and we remain committed to the roadmap announced in January.

Rumors: Is HP webOS Enyo team going to Google ?


At this time apparently it is a rumor. However the Verge is pointing out the news as exclusive:

The HP team responsible for Enyo — webOS's HTML5-based application framework that debuted on the TouchPad — will be leaving the company and starting at Google shortly, The Verge has learned. What this means for the future of Open webOS is unclear; Enyo and the developers supporting it are central to HP's open source strategy for the operating system going forward, and it's hard to say whether this move will have any effect on the planned late 2012 release for version 1.0.

What Android could learn from webOS is a lot and Matias Duarte knows it.


TheVerge

Amazing webOS story by Ben Tattersley at the webOS Connect London. Video.

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This is an Amazing webOS story by Ben Tattersley at the webOS Connect London, where he told about how he began developing webOS apps with Enyo without having a clue before and how he taught to 70 students to develope webOS applications. The students made the homework and in 3 days they brought a wonderful worldwide time clock. 


I highly recommend to watch the video to know the full story:


A veritable treasure trove of information on webOS -- in just under 10 minutes.