Device convergence is continuing at a rapid pace. The simplest phones do much more than making calls; home entertainment units support Bluetooth®, Wi-Fi®, and Ethernet stacks; and GPS units are making location awareness important in many aspects of our daily lives. In the past, these devices were created with a "hard" real-time OS, but in the fast-changing consumer device market, more companies are switching to Linux to reap the benefits of the royalty-free kernel and the familiar development model. However, short development cycles and the lack of early hardware prototypes make embedded and mobile Linux projects more difficult than they need to be.
The Eclipse DSDP/TmL (Tools for Mobile Linux) project provides a framework to integrate emulator technologies and an environment for simulating the connection between real world devices into the Eclipse platform. These tools are essential for embedded Linux and mobile developers who need to get work done in an agile world, especially because often their devices are not still available. TmL allows device vendors to test their devices before they have physical hardware. Motorola uses the TmL project in its MOTODEV Studio products to give third party developers an opportunity to work with new APIs before phones are available on the market. With early access to tools, APIs and a run-time environment, application developers can get a jump start on their competition.
Use this opportunity to learn about the TmL project and how to use its features to create tools for your development community.
This video was recorded at EclipseCon 2009.
Total running time 43:52 minutes
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