Android Center of Excellence (CoE)
As one of the early entrants to the Android solutions space, Aricent has developed significant expertise in the development and integration of application suites, user interface frameworks, application execution environment, multimedia middleware, kernel and hardware driver layers of the Android software stack.
This expertise is now available through Aricent’s Android Center of Excellence (CoE); one of the most advanced resources for Android
operating system (OS) platform development, delivering unmatched consulting capabilities and comprehensive lifecycle services.
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Innovation Design & Consulting
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Multi-Layer Lifecycle Services
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Aricent’s Android Offerings
Aricent’s Android offerings, targeted at device ODMs, consumer electronics (CE) manufacturers and service providers, span a wide range of categories:
- Mobile handsets (Smartphones and Feature phones)
- Consumer electronics devices (MID, Set-Top Boxes, PMP, DTV, Camera, HMP, DPF)
- VoIP media phones
- Manufacturing and testing terminal equipment
- In the automotive space
Aricent’s Android CoE delivers unmatched consulting capabilities and lifecycle services:
Innovation Design and Consulting
Leveraging its world-class niche design practice, Aricent offers a detailed consultative review of user interface (UI) designs to ensure that they harness the latest innovations and technologies, and align well with customers’ business objectives.
Other consultancy services offered on Android can be categorized into the following practices:
- Audit – Performance evaluation and benchmarking
- Strategy – Creation of technology roadmaps with phasing of features by releases
- Assurance – Planning for better ROI through improved testing services
- Optimization – Solution optimization and power management for different use case scenarios (Web browsing, Music, Video, Gaming)
Multi-Layer Lifecycle Services
Lifecycle services for Android include multimedia product and applications development, device driver integration, integration of multimedia middleware and UI - targeted at CE (MID, DPF, VOIP etc.) and handset (e.g. Smartphone) segments - and platform assurance solutions. In addition, we offer porting and power management solutions that complement the core Android lifecycle services.
Research and Development (R&D)
- Product Development – Design, development, integration and porting of Aricent’s Media EXP™ (CODECs, middleware, communication applications etc) on Android
phones and consumer electronics
- Application Development – Rich Mobile Android Application Suite (e.g. Music, Video, Email, Social Networking, Contacts, Home Screen) and widget development services
- Multi-layer Android Porting – Aricent’s expertise in OpenGL ES Optimization and baseporting allows us to offer services such as porting of OpenGL on hardware accelerators
Systems Integration – Android based system integration services include system integration for multimedia middleware and IPRs. Aricent offers OpenCore Media Framework Integration and Performance Optimization, customization of OpenMAX IL API and integration of Audio/Video CODECs with the Android platform and OpenMAX Plugins.
Integration for multimedia middleware IPRs includes proprietary CODECs, image processing algorithms and multimedia middleware application components (Video Telephony, Video Share, IMS client, VoIP, VVOIP, MTP, Presence, Group/List Management, Camera applications etc.).
Product Assurance – Comprehensive testing services on Android across a variety of areas - BSP, Android Framework, Multimedia - OMX layer, Modem - Voice call / Data and Applications, range across both existing and third party applications. We also provide Interoperability Testing (IOT) and End-To-End (E2E) testing on live networks.
Complementing the core lifecycle services are Aricent’s Power Management services on Android, which utilize the power states (idle, sleep, deep sleep etc.) in a manner designed to ensure optimum power consumption.
Key Benefits
- Accelerated time to market - Accelerate the time to market (up to 50% reduction in time to market) of a range of new Android based devices, e.g. phones, netbooks, media phones etc.
- Increased market potential - Explore market potential for Android based innovative devices with minimal investment
- Reduced risks and improved quality - Dramatically reduce risk and improve quality of the overall devices by leveraging best in class components and expertise
- Unmatched performance - Deliver unparalleled multimedia performance and battery life (up to 25% savings in power consumption) on handsets and CE
- Compelling user experience - Offer enhanced, differentiated and seamless multimedia applications for the end-users, with user-friendly and customized UI across various device form factors
- Leverage Aricent’s complete, value-added solution experience - Aricent has identified potential gaps in the Android software stack in areas of Image processing algorithms, availability of proprietary CODECs and parsers, 720p HD CODECs and related applications, and has invested in IPRs to address these challenges