Curiosity

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I'm a Palm Pre user and in love with WebOS, but as we all know Palm is dying and probably won't last through the year. I'm awaiting the EVO but I'm curious to know if it'll be possible to put WebOS on it. I'm not looking to start a WebOS/Android flame-war, I've just gotten used to WebOS in the past year. What do you guys think, is it do-able/worth the time?

Regardless, I'll probably upgrade to the EVO if the price is right
Thanks!

Is it possible? Probably.. Will it happen? Probably not.

There's already a discussion/wish list for WinMo 6.5 to be ported to the Evo, and even that may be a longshot.

But I'd say that has a much better chance of happening than WebOS... But then, anything is possible!

I was thinking that might happen. In that case, if not a complete port of WebOS is it possible to simulate/emulate the "card" system on Android? That's really my favorite part of the OS and what sets it apart from Android. Honestly, If someone could combine both OS's we'd have one hell of a phone.
Thanks!

TaskOS is about as good as you're going to get at the moment, no previews, just icons for running processes, not as flashy as webOS, but the basic functionality is technically there.

still waiting on the announcement of google buying palm for the acquisition of patents to multi-touch that palm owns the rights to.

Along with that would be webOS... give it some time, their stocks are tanking, another quarter of record losses will put them on the table to be bought up.
http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=...AQ:PALM&ntsp=0

Well instead of waiting for someone else to do it, what would I need to do to try to port the OS? Are there any tutorials or instructions available for this sort of thing? Is it standard or does the process vary by phone? I'd love to try it, even try to intergrate some Android functionality -- I think if WebOS and Android were combined it would make the perfect phone OS.

At the very least, would it be possibe to drop the Sense UI from the EVO and just run 2.1?

Originally Posted by greymalken

Well instead of waiting for someone else to do it, what would I need to do to try to port the OS? Are there any tutorials or instructions available for this sort of thing? Is it standard or does the process vary by phone? I'd love to try it, even try to intergrate some Android functionality -- I think if WebOS and Android were combined it would make the perfect phone OS.

At the very least, would it be possibe to drop the Sense UI from the EVO and just run 2.1?

webOS isn't open source so you will not be able to compile it.

The open souce part of webOS would be usefull in porting android to a palm phone but not the other way around sadly.

Originally Posted by johnsongrantr

webOS isn't open source so you will not be able to compile it.

The open souce part of webOS would be usefull in porting android to a palm phone but not the other way around sadly.

That takes some wind out of my sails. What about dropping the Sense UI in favor of just running 2.1 like the Nexus One?

Originally Posted by greymalken

That takes some wind out of my sails. What about dropping the Sense UI in favor of just running 2.1 like the Nexus One?

Go to YouTube and find the video called "Turning an HTC Desire into a Nexus One."

Originally Posted by greymalken

That takes some wind out of my sails. What about dropping the Sense UI in favor of just running 2.1 like the Nexus One?

the 2.1 that the nexus one runs is AOSP http://source.android.com/ and a custom built launcher for the nexus (launcher2.apk) which is popular here on xda and is easily obtainable.

These will all come in good time after it's released and rooted and custom roms start popping up. One thing you can hope for as I wish the phone to be successful and bring much attention to wimax in general is that AOSP and cyanogen mods http://www.cyanogenmod.com/ gets ported to the EVO. It's the cleanest version of android without all the crapware that generally comes with feature phones and flagship phones.

Cyanogen mods is where's it's at in the android hacking community. Suggestion if you really get into hacking android, start with AOSP and cyanogen port to the EVO. It will teach you alot about the android OS without all the added htc jazz.

Hope for a quick release of the EVO kernel's source though... once you have that then you can get to work. Without that don't expect much success.

Thanks for the advice! I'll start looking into them as EVO day gets closer. Are there any good tutorials for getting into Android modding/writing apps? Good ones though, not just any result from a google search.