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Persistent Systems set up Center of Excellence on Android platform

By SiliconIndia | Tuesday, 21 July 2009, 21:39 Hrs | 1 Comments

Persistent Systems set up Center of Excellence on Android platform

Bangalore: Persistent Systems, a software product development service company, has established a Center of Excellence (CoE) for the Android Open Mobile platform. The center will develop feature rich applications on the Android platform. This will help the network operators, handset manufacturers and developers of new mobile applications and services to grow their open source mobile markets.

The company has been in partnerships for developing mobile applications for carrier grade and enterprise class applications. Comprising of around 350 engineers, the Mobile Business Unit has focuses on various mobile platforms, delivering over 50 product releases annually in the last five years. The company also invests in emerging technologies that show promise of significant growth. The company has focused on application development on Android devices since the Android SDK release."Assured by the strong market predictions and Android's current growth rate, we have invested in the CoE. We strongly believe that with our unique blend of experience and expertise on Android, we can facilitate partner companies to expedite development on this rich and evolving platform," said Dr. R. Venkateswaran, Head, Telecom & Mobile Business Unit, Persistent Systems.

The company has expertise with the Android Software Development Kit, developer device, tools, setups, builds, features like maps, location, media, browser, accelerometer, user interface and other application framework components. It has developed tools and frameworks that accelerate application development, porting and interoperability testing of mobile applications. The team also works on application development and on Linux based source code which involves porting Android to different chipsets.

Two new applications, 'Knight Tour' and 'World of Web' (WoW) developed by the CoE have been recently released in the Android market. Knight Tour is a chess game, which has audio and custom themes for the user to personalize the settings. The game has already recorded more than 1800 downloads by G1 users. 'World of Web', which has recorded around 800 downloads, enables the users to view multiple webpages and RSS feeds.

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