Movial has announced that it has joined LiMo Foundation, the global consortium of mobile companies delivering an open handset platform for the mobile industry. As part of its commitment to the Linux mobile community, Movial has also revealed that it is open sourcing Browser D-Bus Bridge technology. This, Movial says, for the first time ever, enables web developers and designers, operators and device manufacturers to easily create extremely capable user interfaces (UI) that transform web widgets into user-driven mobile applications, providing new, value-added and differentiated services and superior user experiences.
Browser D-Bus Bridge translates HTML and Javascript commands to D-Bus (Desktop Bus) commands. D-Bus is also used by the LiMo Foundation for inter-process communication (IPC) between applications and services. Movials Browser D-Bus Bridge can provide a browser-based UI for the LiMo stack and makes it possible for applications to initiate platform services, like media engines and instant messaging engines on mobile devices, enabling web developers and designers, operators and device manufacturers to add browser-based UIs easily.
Using Browser D-Bus Bridge, says Movial, members of the Linux mobile community will now be able to create custom User Interfaces that are not only Web widgets, but rich and usable main applications. These applications will blur the lines between local and external services, creating innovative on-device mashups.
Running on WebKit and Mozilla engines, Movial expects to deliver the code to the Linux mobile community within 90 days.
Movial is proud to participate in LiMo and contribute to the soaring success of the LiMo platform and the continued growth of the Linux mobile community, says Tomi Rauste, President of Movial Creative Technologies. The goals of LiMo and those of Movial are in lock step to reduce complexity, development costs and fragmentation in the market, while providing a richer mobile ecosystem through the contributions of leading industry partners.