Myriad's currently in talks with car manufacturers, avionics firms, Samsung and others to get Alien Dalvik on their products, so we'll be seeing Google's little green bots in some unexpected places in the not-so-distant future. Native performance is the goal, however, and he's confident that the company will be able to pull it off. Olivier told us that there are some user interface issues with non-touchscreen devices (think TV remotes) that must be figured out as well. But, you should keep in mind that it's still in beta, and Myriad got Android apps functioning on an iPad without jailbreaking or help from Apple, which is pretty darn impressive. There's currently no support for Honeycomb apps, but Olivier informed us that such functionality is in the works.Īs you can see in the video above, the new Alien Dalvik isn't nearly as smooth as native Android. Myriad's working with an unnamed partner to create an Alien Dalvik store that'll be the sole provider of apps for the platform, because downloading apps from Android Market and other sources won't be an option. The company says it can port Alien Dalvik to any operating system, which grants TVs, in-flight entertainment systems and cars access to apps without changing the existing infrastructure to run the full Android OS. So, devices with this new Dalvik on board get an H.264 video feed of Android with some secret sauce letting users interact with the apps - not unlike Onlive's cloud gaming service. Version 2.0 runs in the cloud with Netzyn's servers doing all the heavy lifting, as opposed to the original where the native host environment resides on the gadget itself. We got to speak with Olivier Bartholot, Myriad's VP of Business Development about the new platform, and he explained that this second iteration of Alien Dalvik differs from the first in a significant way.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |