Centrafuse Market

  Introducing Centrafuse Market & 
3.5 SDK featuring Centrafuse Studio 

Sign up for the Market to access the new SDK 3.5, now includes Studio Beta 1 

Hello everyone,  

 

Please join us in celebrating the official launch and introduction of Centrafuse Market for Developers. We are now accepting developer sign ups. Sign up now and download the SDK from your account page.  

 

Centrafuse Market 

We are very excited to introduce Centrafuse Market, the in-vehicle app store, accessible from our latest release, Centrafuse Auto 3.5. This represents a major step forward for Centrafuse and its ever-growing developer community. The Market allows developers to focus on creating apps by removing the burden maintaing complex install and update instructions. Centrafuse Market streamlines and standardizes how plugin apps are created, deployed and updated. This means the developer can quickly and easily push updates out to customers, avoiding the hassle of relying on detailed instructions, minimizing end-user install issues. That the Centrafuse 3.5 SDK coincides with the release of the Centrafuse Market is no accident. This SDK has the documentation required to create a Market-compatible application package.

Check out our video overview of Market:

Centrafuse Market Application Overview
Centrafuse Market Application Overview

Centrafuse Studio Beta 1

This release of our SDK is especially interesting because it includes the first ever public release of our new product, Centrafuse Studio Beta 1. Centrafuse Studio represents a major shift in the developer ecosystem as it allows for rapid prototyping of new and various HMI/UX approaches. Studio in its current form is able to edit and create modified versions of the current default main skin or plugin application skin. With advanced design-view features such as a control toolbox, complete with draggable controls, and active working canvas it is intended for making both very discrete changes to individual elements or changing several elements at once. By using Studio, HMI developers can avoid costly mistakes from having to directly edit the markup and more importantly significantly reduce the time required to create a new skin or HMI.  
Centrafuse Studio Overview
Centrafuse Studio Overview

Centrafuse 3.5 SDK  

In addition to Studio, the 3.5 SDK itself includes many other interesting and useful items for both developers and HMI designers alike. This includes Visual Studio code templates for the Centrafuse Open Interfaces such as AM FM Radio, Navigation, Audio Mixer, Text-to-Speech, Voice Recognition and Bluetooth Handsfree and Bluetooth Audio. Also included are code examples, one of which is a streaming radio example showing how to create a streaming media application. Many other updates can be seen from within Centrafuse Studio, such as new CMLActions and CMLText for greater control from the HMI or skinning layer, empowering the HMI designer to do more with CML markup, requring less underlying code changes.

 

Other notable SDK updates are new APIs for developers such as auto-scaling text labels, a new plugin event system, added support for plugin-defined voice commands and hotkeys. A new Voice Record API allows apps to record voice clips from within your app, and new Navigation API methods can be used to create your own navigation applications. New controls are now available, such as a new Gauge control which allows you to build richer diagnostic or monitoring utilities.   

 

These are just some of the new items available in the new 3.5 SDK. For the official announcement and more detailed information, see the

Centrafuse Market and 3.5 SDK release information thread 

or download the SDK from your My Account page by

signing up as a Market developer   

 

.View our videos on YouTube   

 

There are other additions to the SDK, please download the complete Centrafuse 3.5 SDK from your account page and read through the documentation.

 

Thank you for sharing this momentous occasion with us. This is a huge step for the Centrafuse community and the official kick-off of the Centrafuse Market. 

 

Enjoy! We can't wait to see some great new apps on the Market!!

Reagan and the Centrafuse Team