Widget Manager for Android Bondi

What is Bondi?

OMTP launched BONDI project with the aim of acting as a catalyst to drive the standardization of a small set of key interfaces from web services to the key local capabilities on the mobile device and also to put in place a well understood and user controlled security policy with which to protect the user. BONDI consists of several activities:

• Interface Requirements.
• Security and Architecture requirements.
• API specifications.
• Security Policy DTD.
• Reference Implementation (RI).
• Compliance Criteria.

The BONDI Reference Implementation has been created as an Open Source project.

Goal of the project

The goal of this project is to design an Android application allowing to execute BONDI widgets. This application should be capable of the following tasks:

• Download and install a widget when the browser connects to a URL that contains the widget and use the MIME Type "application / widget.
• List the installed widgets.
• Run a widget.The application is designed in order to compliance the migration to Android of the following BONDI (Bondi 0.9 specification) objects and methods:
  • createSMS.
  • sendSMS.
  • getCurrentPosition.
  • getAddressBooks.
  • findContacts.
• Remove a widget.
• Close a widget.