OneBusAway for the Palm Pre

Posted by Ben Childs Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:49:46 GMT

I’ve been working recently on a native app for the Palm Pre to provide nice integration with the OneBusAway site that provides the King County area of Washington with real-time bus arrival information.

Hopefully I’ll be releasing an installable IPK shortly but in the mean time here are some screenshots of the app. I still need to add some menu icons (notice some duplicates below), clean up the startup page and figure out an app icon.

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In order to get this to work nicely I had to implement on-demand loading of the Google Maps API so that the startup time to your favorite stops is quick. I’ll post a follow-up shortly about that.

Thanks to the IPhone OneBusAway app for inspiration and the folks who made the OneBusAway API available. I’ll post a link to the source code once it is all ship shape.

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  1. Dominic 13 days later:

    I’m very interested in this. I’ll be honeymooning in Seattle mid-November and would love to be able to utilize my Pre for finding my way :)