OneBusAway for the Palm Pre

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:49:46 -0700

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.

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.