Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd has announced the launch of the 2.0 SDK Bada, a global event dedicated to developers and improvements in the app store. It comes shortly after Google announced the purchase of Motorola, which has raised the competition, should be developed further smartphone with Android. Presented at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in February 2011, Bada 2.0 includes new functions, often essential today as multitasking, Wi-Fi Direct, support Near Field Communication (NFC) and voice recognition. With it, you can enjoy services such as payment through mobile phones, recharge cards, and sharing files without Internet access.
With best-in browser, it will be feasible to use web applications with Flash content and HTML5. Samsung is confident that this will help greatly expand the community of Flash and JavaScript developers as well as working in C + +, which is very important today. “In Bada 2.0, we have introduced all our key innovations in the mobile area, to lay the foundation to enable it to become a leading mobile platform,” said Celestino Garcia, director of the division of Samsung Electronics Telecommunications Spain.
Samsung wants to expand the community develop yourselves and create a rich ecosystem that benefits developers and end users. Bada 2.0 programmers can introduce advertising by using the API. In addition, Samsung has enhanced and strengthened its application development environment to provide more support to developers, with the addition of an emulator that creates a development process appropriate to the target environment. With tools such as Profiler you can optimize terminal performance by ensuring that resources such as memory and processing power are used to their full capacity. The SDK (Software Development Kit), the development tool for the mobile operating system, Bada 2.0 can download the program page of the platform (developer.Bada.com).
Samsung Bada SDK 2.0 Features & Specifications : The SDK provides a list of major improvements. The first important is the support for multitasking. Samsung says that several applications can now run in the background of the system. It is also noted that the size of the application potentially impact the performance of this multitasking. A new interface along with new elements:
- The Header, which displays the descriptive content at the top of the screen
- The Footer, which allows you to switch between different views in the application
- A tab bar can be placed anywhere by the developer
- A search Gallery control that displays a collection of images with the ability to start a slide show
The SDK 2.0 also introduces the concept of layout to help develop their elements have taking into account the three screen resolutions supported: WVGA (480×800), HVGA (320×480) and WQVGA (240×400). Other important new features, we note the inter-application communication. Two new classes are introduced as well: ServerChannel and ClientChannel. An application can send a request with the ClientChannel which is then managed by the ServerChannel the intended application itself then selecting the appropriate response. Here are the rest of the notable improvements:
- The chips support NFC (Near Field Communication)
- Support for the Text-to-Speech and Speech-to-Text
- Support for the Wi-Fi Direct, which allows all compatible devices communicate with each other without a central controller is present
- OpenAL (Open Audio Library)
- Additions type In-App to add modules to existing applications and installed
- Push notifications, an important information to users
- Better support for Flash
- Better support for HTML5
- Support for http streaming
- Integration of a JSON parser
- A notepad
Samsung Bada SDK 2.0 has been released and can be downloaded directly at this link.