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Fluffy Spider Technologies FancyPants Weaves Media Rich Android Applications
(Market Wire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 02/09/10 --
Fluffy Spider Technologies (FST),
provider of award-winning FancyPants® user interface (UI) technology for
consumer electronics, today announced support for the Google Android? platform
in FancyPants 3.0. The latest version of the company's multimedia
applications framework gives original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of
Android-based devices and their channel partners new capabilities to
differentiate their wares in an increasingly crowded marketplace. With
FancyPants 3.0, Fluffy Spider targets mainstream Android mobile
development, as well as applications beyond mobile in Digital Video (STB,
DVR, Home Media Center), Office Automation (printers and MFPs) and other
consumer electronics and industrial automation areas.
FancyPants 3.0 support for Android responds to the broad adoption of
the Google platform. In 2009, OEMs launched dozens of devices and the Android Market (applications
store) mushroomed to offer over 20,000 applications. With projections for
growing Android deployment in 2010, developers must increasingly invest in
customizing Android to avoid delivering "me too" devices and applications.
FancyPants, with its rich graphics and multimedia capabilities, provides
the ideal vector to customize Android without forking the platform.
"FancyPants 3.0 enables device and application developers to add value to
Android without fragmenting this growing market," commented Robi Karp, CEO,
Fluffy Spider Technologies. "FancyPants is unique and empowering to
multiple ecosystems, from mobile wireless to consumer electronics and
beyond. Its autonomous user interface lets OEMs and their partners build
differentiated Android-based products and product lines, supporting code
re-use and in-channel branding of devices, applications and services."
"MIPS Technologies works closely with companies in our ecosystem to provide
MIPS licensees and their customers with the fastest time to market for
their products running Android," noted Art Swift, vice president of
marketing, MIPS Technologies. "We're
pleased to work with Fluffy Spider to offer our licensees a straightforward
path to building media-rich user interfaces and applications. Fluffy
Spider's FancyPants product has the potential to help our customers build
devices that stand out in today's dynamic marketplace."
Autonomous User Interface
By enabling total separation of user interfaces from applications that use
them, FancyPants 3.0 offers developers a unique autonomous user interface
model, enabling comprehensive deep customization of Android device GUIs on
a per-application, or suite of applications, basis. FancyPants 3.0
incorporates patent-pending technology offering a revolutionary approach to
UI design and implementation that goes beyond custom themes, icon sets and
color schemes. Through its high level UI scripting, FancyPants 3.0 lets
Android device manufacturers, developers, integrators and other ecosystem
participants easily create visually rich applications and completely
control and customize the look-and-feel of the end-user experience.
This unique separation of applications and UI code offers unprecedented
flexibility and opportunities for branding Android-based devices and adding
value in channel:
-- Lets developers and 3rd parties add and/or remove items from Android
interfaces -- images, videos, and widgets -- without modifying Android
application code
-- Supports transformation of Android UI elements, including buttons,
controls, images and videos with a wide range of 2D/3D visual effects
-- Enables easy integration of new device capabilities and services in
existing FancyPants applications, such as shaking and orientation
(accelerometer), location and movement (GPS), and definable data and
network events (calendars, stock quotes, sports scores, wireless
traffic, etc.)
-- Lets Android integrators, operators and end users easily add new UI
personalities at run-time without changing shrink-wrap application code
FancyPants Android Support Details
FancyPants uses standard Android methods to ensure correct interoperation
with the Android OS. FancyPants applications work in parallel with Android
applications.
-- Graphics Engine -- FancyPants uses OpenGL ES on hardware accelerated
devices to achieve fast frame rates and rich effects. For systems
without OpenGL ES, FancyPants provides a high performance software
graphics engine.
-- Interoperability -- compatible with the widely deployed Android 1.5 and
1.6 SDKs (Android 2.1 coming soon)
-- Integration -- binds with Android application properties, for easy
development of launcher / home screen applications. Interfaces to
native functions and services to access Android databases and call
functions for development of media player and photo gallery type
applications
-- Development -- support for full Android application lifecycle; works
with standard Android SDK
Availability
Android support in FancyPants 3.0 will be available in March 2010 for
MIPS-Based? Android devices as well as systems based on ARM and other
architectures. Experience the difference that FancyPants brings to Android
devices at Mobile
World Congress in Barcelona, Spain -- Fluffy Spider will be
demonstrating FancyPants running on Android in the MIPS Technologies
Hospitality Suite #3.1HS162.
About Fluffy Spider Technologies
Fluffy Spider Technologies (FST) specializes in providing advanced GUI and
high-performance multimedia products for embedded application development,
as well as comprehensive custom design and development services.
FancyPants® is the multi-award winning framework from FST, enabling OEMs
and ODMs to differentiate their products, minimize development effort and
lead with dramatically enhanced user interfaces. FancyPants speeds
time-to-market, is extremely resource efficient, flexible and portable.
Founded in 1995, customers include Toshiba, VeriFone and SpeakerCraft.
For more information, visit www.fluffyspider.com or email:
sales@fluffyspider.com
MIPS, MIPS32 and MIPS-Based are trademarks or registered trademarks in the
United States and other countries of MIPS Technologies, Inc. All other
trademarks referred to herein are the property of their respective owners.
Android is a trademark of Google Inc. Use of this trademark is subject to
Google
Permissions.
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Contacts:
Robi Karp
(Sydney -- Australia)
Fluffy Spider Technologies P/L
Phone: +61 2 9281 9055
Email: Email Contact
Trish Colby
LinuxPundit.com
Phone: +1 408 828 2861
Email: Email Contact
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