Ford Releases An SDK For Their Cars

Re:Ford Releases An SDK For Their Cars by manicho on Tuesday January 08, 2013 @08:43PM (#5029650)

I was notified today that GM also came out with there API today. Seems a bit odd that they would both release the exact same feature on the same day. I wonder how similar their SDK's will be. http://media.gm.com/media/us/en/gm/news.detail.html/content/...

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Re:Ford Releases An SDK For Their Cars by dcesiel on Tuesday January 08, 2013 @09:37PM (#5029802)

GM's is cool too because they have an API that allows you to remotely get vehicle data through Onstar. This allows approved apps to get data like fuel level, vehicle alarm alerts, oil life, fuel economy, remote start/stop, location, speed and direction etc. Not sure Ford has anything like that..

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Re:Ford Releases An SDK For Their Cars by zgchurch on Tuesday January 08, 2013 @10:05PM (#5029901)

Ford's AppLink-enabled apps run on your iOS/Android phone and the vehicle's voice control and buttons are additional interfaces to control the app that's running on your phone. So regular Pandora from Google Play or the App Store has the code to integrate with AppLink vehicles in it already.

This is different from GM's approach, where the apps are built to run on the vehicle's own hardware.

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Re:Ford Releases An SDK For Their Cars by wmblaettler on Wednesday January 09, 2013 @07:56AM (#5031252)

We just entered a GM Connected Car app in the ATT Hackathon in Las Vegas this past weekend. GM provides an Eclipse plugin that has the SDK and emulator. GM's API is Javascript-based and your app is HTML5/CSS and JS code.

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