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Embedded Software and Operating Systems
News Release from: Digital Airways | Subject: Kaleido Animator
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 10 January 2008
Software provides unique phone
interfaces
Kaleido Animator allows handsets manufacturers to create fully animated user interfaces quickly and cost-effectively.
Digital Airways has released Kaleido Animator, an advanced graphic rendering solution for mobile phones Building on the Kaleido UI software solution, Kaleido Animator allows handsets manufacturers to create fully animated user interfaces quickly and cost-effectively
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 16 Jun 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Kaleido Phone Library is a generic man machine interface foundation layer for communication devices such as mobile phones, PDAs, smartphones and other mobile devices.
Kaleido Animator responds to handset manufacturers' challenges in developing sophisticated user interfaces and product positioning by providing a UI framework and a library of pre-integrated customisable functions all aimed at simplifying the creation of animated user interfaces.
These functions can be used as is, or rapidly extended to create any sort of innovative animation.
Recent introductions of handsets, such as the Apple iPhone, that integrate advanced graphic effects and animated features, have demonstrated the importance of the user interface as a key differentiating element.
"The challenge of the UI, however, is not just graphic", says Philippe Silberzahn, Digital Airways' CEO.
"Behind what you see, you need to manage user behaviour".
"The addition of Animator to Kaleido's powerful UI model makes it easy to associate sophisticated visual effects to the management of complex user behaviours".
Kaleido Animator facilitates the creation of animated backgrounds, moving objects such as buttons indicators, splash screens, wizards, dynamic menus, transition between contexts and management of layers.
Most of these animations don't require the user to write a single line of code, making the process extremely efficient and the resulting user interface scalable across a range of platforms.
Kaleido Animator is designed to take full advantage of platform resources such as graphic accelerators, 2D/3D engines and image codecs.
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