Knowledge base

We have a number of different APIs and SDKs available for Sony Xperia™ smartphones, tablets and Smart Accessories. The Sony Add-on SDK is our newest SDK, and it gathers everything you need to develop innovative apps that will give you better visibility. Learn more and download it for free.

Browse Sony API references online (beta version).

We’ve made a number of valuable developer tools available to help you in many stages of app development. You can use these to help you with troubleshoot issues, debug code, analyse files in your APK file, and more.  Some of the tools are even open sourced! 

One of the things we like the most is to share knowledge and tips aiming to help and assist you as a developer. In this section you will find everything from concrete coding tutorials, to tips on app promotion and legal advices – here you can tips and tutorials for all the angles of being a developer.

Do you know how our Floating touch technology work, available in Xperia™ sola? Or how Mobile Bravia® Engine enhances images and videos? Maybe you're looking for more information about NFC and WebGL? This is the place to find out more about proprietary Sony technologies, as well as  other common or future technologies.

Sony Mobile is committed to supporting the open developer community, and one way to show this is by publishing parts of our code as well as selected tools developed by our internal developers. We have four different open source categories: AOSP for Xperia™ devices, GitHub projects, Code examples and code modules and Xperia open source archives.

Find information on a variety of third party resources that may be useful to you as a developer when you are creating content and applications.

Reference material about older technologies and tools.