Mobile Platform Software Development Kit 1.3 – Open Source Project for Windows and Linux

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The Mobile Platform SDK for Moblin UMPC and Atom-based devices is covered by the BSD license. The Mobile Platform SDK is designed for developers who want a cross-platform, cross-OS solution.

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Intel delivers tools and technologies to build context-aware mobile applications for the Windows and Linux open source community

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1. Get Mobile Platform SDK and start developing mobile applications that work smarter by adapting and managing system resources for better performance and usability
2. Meet the architects behind the Intel Mobile Platform SDK in from Joe Zhao’s and Bin Zhu's Blogs.
3. Learn how you can bolster mobile applications by reading Making Applications aware of their Mobile Contexts using the Intel Mobile Platform SDK (link)

Mobile Platform SDK 1.3 open source project overview

The Mobile Platform SDK 1.3 an open source project, covered by BSD license, makes it easier and faster to develop and deploy compelling mobile applications that are tuned for the mobile world. Your customers can now get better performance from their Windows notebook, tablets, Smart Phones, and personal digital assistant (PDA), and from their Linux notebooks and Moblin UMPC and Atom-based devices. With the Mobile Platform SDK 1.3 you can design context-aware mobile applications that can:

• Manage connectivity transparently
• Effectively balance power and performance
• Use available memory and disk space for local data store and synchronization
• Adapt to different display types
• Manage network bandwidth
• Platform device management and plug-in mechanism

About Mobile Platform SDK open source project

• This project is about fostering mobile computing open source innovation
• For ISV software developers and ISV providers who want to develop, deploy, and contribute to the open source project, please visit:
  • Intel ISN www.intel.com/software/MPSDK
  • SourceForge.org: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpsdk

• Mobile Platform SDK 1.3 open source license is covered by BSD.

New Articles

• Accessing System Power Information using the Intel Mobile Platform SDK: The Intel MPSDK provides functionality to monitor and track changes in the power status of a system, without the need for the application to constantly poll for the data. Software developers can learn how to obtain information pertaining to the system’s power status from this article.
• Intel Mobile Platform SDK: Network Detection: Learn how to use the open source Intel® Mobile Platform SDK to extract network device information. Also included are code samples written in C# for the Microsoft Windows XP* platform.
• Making Applications aware of their Mobile Contexts using the Intel Mobile Platform SDK: This article provides an overview of the Mobile Platform SDK, as well as several code examples showing how to add power and connectivity awareness to your application.
• Intel® Mobile Platform SDK: Monitor Connectivity Status: This doc and sample code provided in the article demonstrate how to use the Intel Mobile Platform SDK to obtain information concerning a system's network connectivity status.

• Prioritize and Estimate Bandwidth using Intel® Mobile Platform SDK: This article shows how to provide applications with the ability to adapt to various network conditions. Use the Intel® Mobile Platform SDK to estimate and prioritize available bandwidth to your Windows* applications. Code samples included.

Recent Blogs

• MarcoPolo - super context awareness for your mobile computer by Jon Mountjoy
  Wonderful MarcoPolo - it takes mobile awareness to a new level. I can make my computer "context aware" - even taking into account ambient light, time of day, and wifi connectivity. Fuzzy rule matching too. The MPSDK offers some functionality with which to code an application like MarcoPolo. [...]
• MPSDK helps on Location calculation by Bin Zhu
  Recently when looking into the location technology on mobile platform, I found that network awareness in MPSDK can also support to calculate the location of the device. Besides GPS, now more and more technologies are used to provide location info, like IP, WiFi, WiMAX, TV, etc. [...]
• Consideration of Scanning Wireless AP function in new release Intel MPSDK for Linux by Feng Li
  How to scan the access point on linux platform? The Wireless tool package is a useful library. In the MPSDK, we built the Wireless tool in as a static_library and invoke the Wireless tool API in the MPSDK Providerclass_network project. [...]

• How to Build Runtime Environment for MPSDK by Joe Zhao
  It has been one month since we first released my MPSDK open source project, and we have achieved more than 1000 downloads from both ISN and Sourceforge.

• After building a sample code out of MPSDK package by myself, I found the proceed of setting runtime and development environment is a bit the inconvenient for customer and maybe it is not crystal for our customer to use this big package, so I have written a tutorial for how to build up runtime environment for MPSDK for customer's convenience.

• This tutorial will guide you through the whole process of building development environment.[...]