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Tutorial: Learn How Palm OS Expands Software Development

By Alex Gusev,

Developer.com

July 5, 2005

Expansion Manager, to confirm its name, is a layer that manages slot drivers. Actually, it doesn't work with slots directly. Instead, Expansion Manager provides unified APIs to manupilates slots.

All specific 'magic is performed by appropriate slot driver implemented as a shared library.

Such architecture is similar to VFS Manager (see the previous article ). The next sections will guide you through the stuff available for applications.

But first, I would like to highlight one simple but important thing: Prior to using any functions from Virtual File System Manager or Expansion Manager, your application must verify whether those features are present.

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