http://developer.sonymobile.com Wed, 22 May 2013 15:22:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://developer.sonymobile.com/2013/04/25/more-models-added-to-the-flash-tool-for-unlocked-xperia-devices-beta/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=more-models-added-to-the-flash-tool-for-unlocked-xperia-devices-beta http://developer.sonymobile.com/2013/04/25/more-models-added-to-the-flash-tool-for-unlocked-xperia-devices-beta/#comments Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:13:48 +0000 Anna Aleryd /?p=18969 One of our most popular services here at Developer World is the flash tool for Xperia devices, which lets you flash Sony software on a device with unlocked boot loader. This is convenient if you want to go from a custom ROM to generic Sony software. We’ve now added software for several more models, most [...]]]> http://developer.sonymobile.com/2013/04/25/more-models-added-to-the-flash-tool-for-unlocked-xperia-devices-beta/feed/ 18 http://developer.sonymobile.com/2013/04/04/5-coding-tips-to-make-your-app-power-efficient-and-optimised-for-sonys-stamina-mode/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=5-coding-tips-to-make-your-app-power-efficient-and-optimised-for-sonys-stamina-mode http://developer.sonymobile.com/2013/04/04/5-coding-tips-to-make-your-app-power-efficient-and-optimised-for-sonys-stamina-mode/#comments Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:35:51 +0000 Anna Aleryd /?p=18466 The battery life of smartphones and tablets is extremely important for many users, and in order to provide end users with good battery performance, device manufacturers have a joint responsibility together with all of you app developers. The power-save feature STAMINA mode, available on our latest Xperia™ devices including Xperia Z, is a clever way [...]]]> http://developer.sonymobile.com/2013/04/04/5-coding-tips-to-make-your-app-power-efficient-and-optimised-for-sonys-stamina-mode/feed/ 9 http://developer.sonymobile.com/2013/03/27/tutorial-reboot-develop-energy-and-network-efficient-apps/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tutorial-reboot-develop-energy-and-network-efficient-apps http://developer.sonymobile.com/2013/03/27/tutorial-reboot-develop-energy-and-network-efficient-apps/#comments Wed, 27 Mar 2013 13:30:26 +0000 Anna Aleryd /?p=18472 When you develop an app, there are a few things you can do to make it use network and power resources as efficiently as possible. And by doing so, you will also provide a clearly enhanced user experience. Håkan Jonson, a research engineer at Sony Mobile’s Technology office, created a tutorial a while back that [...]]]> http://developer.sonymobile.com/2013/03/27/tutorial-reboot-develop-energy-and-network-efficient-apps/feed/ 2 http://developer.sonymobile.com/2013/02/27/experimental-firefox-os-software-for-xperia-e-available-for-developers-rom/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=experimental-firefox-os-software-for-xperia-e-available-for-developers-rom http://developer.sonymobile.com/2013/02/27/experimental-firefox-os-software-for-xperia-e-available-for-developers-rom/#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2013 12:33:42 +0000 Anna Aleryd /?p=17659 Earlier this week, Sony and Telefónica announced in a joint press release that we are evaluating the Firefox operating system for mobile phones. To show you our current progress, we now also provide an experimental version of the Firefox OS software for Xperia™ E, so that advanced developers can try it out and so that [...]]]> http://developer.sonymobile.com/2013/02/27/experimental-firefox-os-software-for-xperia-e-available-for-developers-rom/feed/ 48 http://developer.sonymobile.com/2013/02/14/get-started-with-opencv-on-android-tutorial-code-example/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=get-started-with-opencv-on-android-tutorial-code-example http://developer.sonymobile.com/2013/02/14/get-started-with-opencv-on-android-tutorial-code-example/#comments Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:54:42 +0000 Tobias Nilsson /?p=17577 As our smartphones become more powerful, they can do more advanced things that previously required a high-end PC. One way to make use of the robust processing power of your smartphone is Computer Vision, which basically lets you use the powerful CPU in modern smartphones to interpret the images captured through the camera. The best [...]]]> http://developer.sonymobile.com/2013/02/14/get-started-with-opencv-on-android-tutorial-code-example/feed/ 1 http://developer.sonymobile.com/knowledge-base/tutorials/android_tutorial/get-started-with-opencv-on-android/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=get-started-with-opencv-on-android http://developer.sonymobile.com/knowledge-base/tutorials/android_tutorial/get-started-with-opencv-on-android/#comments Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:50:31 +0000 Erik Hellman /?post_type=tutorial&p=17582 As our smartphones become more powerful, we can do more advanced things that previously required a high-end PC. One way to make use of the robust processing power of your smartphone is Computer Vision – the ability for a device to acquire, process, analyse and understand images the same way images are perceived by human eyes. [...]]]> http://developer.sonymobile.com/knowledge-base/tutorials/android_tutorial/get-started-with-opencv-on-android/feed/ 6 http://developer.sonymobile.com/2013/01/29/debug-and-fine-tune-apps-with-the-open-sourced-xappdbg-tool-tool/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=debug-and-fine-tune-apps-with-the-open-sourced-xappdbg-tool-tool http://developer.sonymobile.com/2013/01/29/debug-and-fine-tune-apps-with-the-open-sourced-xappdbg-tool-tool/#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:43:50 +0000 Anna Aleryd /?p=17449 App developers, have you ever wished that you wouldn’t have to rebuild and run your application to try out every small change you’re making? Sony’s XAppDbg tool (eXtra Application Debugging tool) lets you try out different parameters without the need to rebuild the code for every change. And it’s open source! Read on as Pál [...]]]> http://developer.sonymobile.com/2013/01/29/debug-and-fine-tune-apps-with-the-open-sourced-xappdbg-tool-tool/feed/ 3 http://developer.sonymobile.com/2013/01/25/jelly-bean-available-for-custom-rom-developers-alpha-rom/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jelly-bean-available-for-custom-rom-developers-alpha-rom http://developer.sonymobile.com/2013/01/25/jelly-bean-available-for-custom-rom-developers-alpha-rom/#comments Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:26:10 +0000 Karl-Johan Dahlström /?p=17134 A while ago, the Sony Xperia™ News room shared an update on our plans to upgrade certain Xperia™ devices to Jelly Bean. Since then we have received quite a few requests from the Android™ developer community to release an earlier version of the Jelly Bean (JB) software for the developers. This way, advanced developers could try it [...]]]> http://developer.sonymobile.com/2013/01/25/jelly-bean-available-for-custom-rom-developers-alpha-rom/feed/ 34 http://developer.sonymobile.com/2012/12/06/new-flash-tool-from-sony-for-unlocked-xperia-smartphones-video-beta-download/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-flash-tool-from-sony-for-unlocked-xperia-smartphones-video-beta-download http://developer.sonymobile.com/2012/12/06/new-flash-tool-from-sony-for-unlocked-xperia-smartphones-video-beta-download/#comments Thu, 06 Dec 2012 12:54:04 +0000 Anna Aleryd /?p=16950 Today, we release a beta version of our new flash tool for Xperia devices, which enables you to put on standard Sony software* on a Sony Xperia™ smartphone which has the boot loader unlocked. This functionality has often been requested by the open Android™ community, and now we’re glad to support it. Please note that [...]]]> http://developer.sonymobile.com/2012/12/06/new-flash-tool-from-sony-for-unlocked-xperia-smartphones-video-beta-download/feed/ 135 http://developer.sonymobile.com/2012/10/31/linux-developers-join-forces-in-the-linaro-project/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=linux-developers-join-forces-in-the-linaro-project http://developer.sonymobile.com/2012/10/31/linux-developers-join-forces-in-the-linaro-project/#comments Wed, 31 Oct 2012 09:21:54 +0000 Anna Aleryd /?p=16006 Have you heard about Linaro? It’s a non-profit organisation made up of eight members working to improve the Linux kernel for ARM architectures (ARM is one of the largest processor developers in the industry). At Sony, we think this initiative is really great, and we can see clear benefits of cooperating in Linux development. Read [...]]]> http://developer.sonymobile.com/2012/10/31/linux-developers-join-forces-in-the-linaro-project/feed/ 3