CES-HTML5 platform auto debuts

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CES: HTML5 platform for auto infotainment debuts

Bernard Cole
iApplianceWeb
(01/11/12, 8:15 AM GMT)

Las Vegas, Nev. - QNX Software Systems unveiled at CES here an application platform, CAR 2, tailored to allow automotive developers to harness HTML5 to enable rapid development of in-car infotainment systems.

The CAR 2 platform introduces a new, auto-centric HTML5 framework to enable auto makers to address consumer demands for the latest mobile apps and services, and to leverage a huge developer community—helping automakers customize the user experience and simplify access to mobile apps.

The QNX CAR 2 application platform is designed to leverage these benefits with an auto-centric HTML5 framework to permit developers to easily reskin entire user interfaces—essential to projecting a unique brand identity—and do it cost-effectively for multiple model lines.

It also allows them to blend HTML5 applications with those created with Qt, OpenGL ES, and other user interface technologies—all on the same display and even at the same time. This flexible architecture for building a unified user experience enables manufacturers to leverage existing software investments while tapping into HTML5.

In addition to the new HTML framework, the QNX CAR 2 application platform pre-integrates an array of technologies, including the QNX Neutrino real-time operating system, a multimedia framework, an acoustic processing library for handsfree systems, and hundreds of software services and utilities.

With the QNX CAR 2 application platform, developers can build both browser-based and browser-less applications in HTML5—and even use HTML5 to build applications that do not require connectivity to the Internet.

The platform includes an optimized WebKit-based HTML5 engine that supports audio and video, geo-location, WebSockets, offline applications, session storage, canvas, and other standards, such as CSS3 and JavaScript.

Optimizations beyond WebKit include pixel-accurate zooming and high-performance panning (ideal for maps and navigation), physics-based scrolling, and other advanced features.

To learn more, go to www.qnx.com.

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