POLARIS App Player Introduction
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Polaris® App Player is middleware that allows Android applications to run on non-Android devices. It provides a portable Android framework so that existing Android apps can work across devices with different OS's like Tizen, Linux, and Windows. Polaris® App Player supports over 80% of Android apps without recompiling and provides tools to test compatibility. It allows platforms to quickly gain apps and for developers to reach more devices with minimal effort. A demonstration of Polaris® running Android apps on Tizen is available online.
POLARIS App Player Introduction
- 1. Polaris® App Player Confidential to Infraware Technology, Inc. Copyright © 2013 Infraware Technology, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 2. Copyright 2013. Infraware Technology Inc. All Right Reserved. 1. Overview 2. Polaris® App Player 3. Available Devices 4. Compatibility & Limitation 5. Automated Verification of Apps 6. Expected Effects 7. Service Scenario 8. Demo. Table Of Contents 2
- 3. Copyright 2013. Infraware Technology Inc. All Right Reserved. NativeApps Overview Polaris® App Player is a middleware solution to play Android application on non- android devices. Any Device & OS (RTOS, Brew, Linux, Android, TIZEN, WebOS, Windows, bada, Symbian …) Polaris® App Player (Portable Android Framework) Android Applications ★ Stable and lower cost devices, based on any OS and already-developed legacy S/W. ★ Easy to gather applications and developers using Android Eco- system ★ Portable, High-performance, Well defined UI Framework based on Android. J2MEMIDlet ★ Polaris® App Player is also downloadable application, so you can make any type of services.
- 4. Copyright 2013. Infraware Technology Inc. All Right Reserved. Features/Specifications of PAP 4 Middleware/Player − Direct App Launch The user can launch an android application directly through not only Android Home, but also native platform’s application manager. Android Compliant − Compatible with Android Version 2.3 Gingerbread (Software level compatibility) − Android applications from both android SDK and NDK (with some restriction) − 2D/3D Graphics, Networks, Database (same as android) − H/W acceleration of OpenGL ES ( depends on target device specifications.) − Connectivity (WIFI, BT), Sensors (Gyro, GPS, etc) depends on target device specifications. − Media player supported codecs depends on target device specifications. All Android Tools for developers can be used. − Most of APK from Android SDK and NDK could be working on Polaris® App Player without modification. Downloadable Applications available in Application Store − Download and install a lot of applications, which are available on the specific application store , public site, or SD card.
- 5. Copyright 2013. Infraware Technology Inc. All Right Reserved. Smart phone IPTV settop box Windows Tablet Brew MP • App player for Linux (TIZEN and LIMO) • Settop box to support pre- integrated Android apps. • Android Player (alpha) is ready for Windows 7 PC & Tablet. • Android Apps can be played on Brew MP. (MSM6270, QSC6075) Planned • Ubuntu • Firefox • Windows phone 8 Ported Platform 5 Available devices for Polaris® App Player TIZEN
- 6. Copyright 2013. Infraware Technology Inc. All Right Reserved. Compatibility & Limitation 6 Polaris® App Player can support about 80~90% of original android applications without re-compiling or modification. About 10% of applications need to be re-compiled. And there might be an application which needs to rewrite the source codes to be run on Polaris® App Player . Restrictions - A few of apps should be re-compiled with Polaris® App Player NDK to executed on Polaris® App Player , because the native binary code from gcc (compiler for Android) is not 100% compatible with each other compiler. We have tools to detect whether the apk needs to re-compile or not. - Do not support Apps using the native API related to some Linux kernel functions, such as, fork, exec, and so on. - Widgets are not supported (Apps that are only meant to be widgets are not supported. Apps that include widget functionality as a secondary feature are allowed.) - Launcher Intent is not supported, Because there is no Launcher. (for example, startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN).addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_LAUNCHER));) - Do not support Apps using the Android API level Bluetooth, Call, and SMS functions - NFC related features are not supported
- 7. Copyright 2013. Infraware Technology Inc. All Right Reserved. Automated Verification of Apps for Polaris® App Player 7 Polaris® App Verifier will generate the report which shows the compatibility with Polaris® App Player. To verify the compatibility, Polaris® App Verifier will process both STATIC and DYNAMIC verification automatically. To check • Size of apps • Use permission • Use device • API (including native lib) • And some patterns not allowed in Polaris® App Player Dynamic Verifier To check (in real device) • Install/Uninstall • Execution with some proper input (so, applications may be run automatically) • Unexpected exceptions. • Failed access to resource. One of followings • PASS – Executable, Compatible with Polaris® App Player • CHECK - Need to check manually • FAIL – NOT compatible with SELVAS APK Static Verifier Reporting
- 8. Copyright 2013. Infraware Technology Inc. All Right Reserved. Expected Effect • A lot of applications can be serviced in early stage of new platform (device) • They do not need to develop the default applications for each platform. Platform & Manufacturer • One Source Multi Use. Only one Android version of application can be serviced to the other platforms. (lower development cost) • Time to market for minor platforms. Application Developer • They can have experience to new platform (device) with legacy services and applications without delay. User
- 9. Copyright 2013. Infraware Technology Inc. All Right Reserved. Service Scenario for TIZEN (A) ■ Using PAG (Polaris® App Generator), A large number of TIZEN Phone applications, which are migrated from Android, can be published in the short period. ■ The converted applications can be played with PAP (Polaris® App Player), which should be downloaded at once. APK TIZEN (.tpk) TIZEN Appstore PAG TIZEN • PAP will be installed once before the one of converted applications is run. PAP • Application (APK) is developed using Android SDK. • Application (APK) will be converted to TIZEN TPK using PAG. • Converted APK (that is, TPK) will be played using PAP which maybe already installed in TIZEN device.
- 10. Copyright 2013. Infraware Technology Inc. All Right Reserved. Service Scenario for TIZEN (B) A large number of downloadable applications make the smart phone more competitive. Applications can be supplied with very low effort, because they are already available in Android Eco-system. Call Messages Phonebook Photo Video Camera Bluetooth Alarm Memo Music Player Settings Polaris® Store Native S/W of phone A large number of Android Apps downloadable from application store. More applications using the Polaris® App Player
- 11. Copyright 2012. Infraware Technology Inc. All Right Reserved. Demo. • Demonstration of Polaris® App Player for TIZEN is available on YouTube Infraware Channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/infrawareinc) – POLARIS App Player (for Embedded Devices ) (http://youtu.be/iv_St5vnsU4)
- 12. Contact Point About This Document Hyeokgon Ryu (gonryu@infraware.co.kr) 6F Juho B/D 49-4 Banpo-dong Seocho-gu Seoul, Korea / Mobile +82 10 9014 8826 Office +82 2 6003 8801 Thank you