HTC makes OpenSense sdk available

HTC has made available an SDK that developers can use to create apps for HTC’s own Android shell Sense. The apps created with the sdk only work on the most powerful devices and on HTC’s tablet Flyer for the time being.

The sdk contains APIs for three types of apps and widgets, turns out on the site made for developers. One is for ‘common controls’, things that work on all supported devices. In addition, apps can be made for the autostereoscopic screen of HTC’s 3d device Evo 3D. Apps can also be made for the Scribe pen that comes with HTC’s tablet Flyer and will probably return with the unannounced 10″ tablet Puccini.

Apps created with the sdk do not work on all HTCs; only tablets and Android smartphones with Sense 3.0 or higher are supported. So apps do not work on other recent devices such as Incredible S and Desire S. OpenSense also does not work with Windows Phone. In addition to the sdk, the site also contains source codes for devices and the tool to unlock bootloaders. The latter function is not yet active.

HTC announced at the end of June that the SDK was coming. The OpenSense sdk came as no surprise; references to OpenSense first appeared in 2009, when Android 2.1 firmware for the former top device Hero came out.