MDP leverages Snapdragon for Android apps

Bsquare Corp. releases the Snapdragon Mobile Development Platform (MDP) for Android, a development platform based on Qualcomm's MSM8655 Snapdragon chipset.

The MSM8655-based Snapdragon MDP is designed to speed the creation of Android applications. The Snapdragon MDP and the profiling tools that it supports enables software app developers and device manufacturers a complete application development, testing and optimization platform to leverage the powerful capabilities of the Snapdragon chipsets.

"The mobile market is clamoring for high quality Android applications," noted John Traynor, VP of products, Bsquare. "By delivering the Snapdragon MDP, a combination of Qualcomm's chipset technology along with world class support, engineering services and TestQuest test automation tools, Bsquare is helping developers meet this demand quickly and cost-effectively."

The Snapdragon MDP includes the MSM8655-based smart phone form-factor with a custom 1GHz CPU, 3.8in WVGA responsive multi-touch touch screen display, 12Mpixel camera, 16mm stereo loudspeakers and 512MB of RAM. It offers tools to help developers optimize their applications for Snapdragon platforms, including the Trepn Profiler for optimizing application power usage, and Adreno Profiler for optimizing 3D graphics performance.

Bsquare offers developers and manufacturers support via email, access to the Bsquare Knowledge Base, documentation, complimentary tools and MSM8655-based Snapdragon MDP software updates. Application developers can also benefit from the TestQuest test automation products from Bsquare, TestQuest Pro and CountDown, which seamlessly support the MSM8655-based Snapdragon MDP.

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