SNAP is Sony's Networked Application Platform and is intended to be the basis for future consumer electronic devices. It is planned to evolve this into a complete software stack that will allow third party applications to run on Sony consumer electronics products. This Linux based software stack will include operating system, device specific middleware, general and device specific Objective C APIs including GNUstep, and key applications. The SDK will provide the necessary tools to begin developing Objective C applications for the SN Application Platform.
On a typical CE device hardware resources are much more limited than in the average PC or even a netbook. In order to get the most out of the available hardware it is therefore necessary to control access to scarce resources and manage their use and coordinate sharing them between applications. This is one goal of the SNAP stack. The other one is to provide the application developer with easy to use libraries to access all capabilities of the underlying hardware without reinventing the wheel.
SNAP is Sony's Networked Application Platform and is intended to be the basis for future consumer electronic devices. It is planned to evolve this into a complete software stack that will allow third party applications to run on Sony consumer electronics products. This Linux based software stack will include operating system, device specific middleware, general and device specific Objective C APIs including GNUstep, and key applications. The SDK will provide the necessary tools to begin developing Objective C applications for the SN Application Platform.
On a typical CE device hardware resources are much more limited than in the average PC or even a netbook. In order to get the most out of the available hardware it is therefore necessary to control access to scarce resources and manage their use and coordinate sharing them between applications. This is one goal of the SNAP stack. The other one is to provide the application developer with easy to use libraries to access all capabilities of the underlying hardware without reinventing the wheel.