Motorola, Inc. has introduced MotoDev Studio, an integrated new platform for third-party application development, based on an open framework enabled by Eclipse and designed to accelerate the application development life cycle – from requirements definition to testing and deployment.
Extensible and modular, the MotoDev Studio supports plug-ins for new product tools and delivers updates and new features through a web-based service, ensuring that developers always have the latest functionality. Aligning with Motorola’s seamless mobility strategy, it will support application development across all of Motorola’s products – including mobile, connected home, and enterprise solutions.
In its first release, Motorola is introducing MotoDev Studio for Java ME – a complete Java ME application development platform for mobile handsets. It provides a full set of tools for compiling, debugging, and testing mobile Java applications for Motorola’s hottest 3GSM devices. Instead of testing applications via the Java ME environment on the handset, MotoDev Studio for Java ME emulates individual Java API’s on the desktop, enabling developers to jump-start their development cycle before phones are even available.
In addition, Motorola is offering a standalone Java ME SDK which provides the same emulation and web-based update features as MotoDev Studio for Java ME, combined with the flexibility to be integrated with other IDEs. This gives developers choice in IDEs while significantly reducing the steps they must take to create, test and deploy an application.
MotoDev Studio provides developers with direct access to the information they want and need via a unique communication channel. With one simple download to the desktop, it will notify developers when new tools and SDKs are available. The channel also keeps developers “in the know” on recently announced Motorola handsets, MotoDev events and special go-to-market services available to them.
The initial release of the MotoDev Studio framework will include support tools for an array of new, “wickedly cool” handsets including the MotoKRZR K1, ultra-fast MotoRAZR maxx V6 and the music-optimized MotoROKR Z6m.
