Using Lists in webOS–Mastering the Oldest Mobile Profession

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Article Source Linux Magazine
October 5, 2009, 3:05 pm

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

And not long after we had lots and lots of data to manage.

Fast forward to today and we get to manage that data with cool little gadgets called smartphones. Smartphones are supposed to help make our lives more efficient and on a good day, I think that might be the case. And even if we only carry the device to look cool (ahhem, can anyone say iPhone …) we still wind up managing data with our devices. At minimum, we view our call and SMS history on the device. More often than not, that data is presented in one or more lists.

Because lists are so central to mobile software development, we are going to take a look at using the List widget in Palm‚Äôs webOS…

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