App simplifies Android touch user interface design

Ian Crosby, Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Zytronic, commented: “Android is becoming increasingly popular as system integrators adopt the freely available operating system and the lower cost computing hardware that supports it. It has spread rapidly beyond handsets and tablets and is now becoming a much more common operating system for digital signage and other self-service hardware.

“Each target hardware running Android can be slightly different and setting up the Android Operating System to work with a touch controller and touch screen requires a certain amount of low level software configuration, which not all companies have the in-house expertise to perform. We’ve made it as easy as downloading an App onto the target hardware and performing two simple steps to remove the complexity out of the installation and set-up process.”

The App is loaded onto the Android target hardware. Once loaded the tool detects the attached Zytronic touch controller and the user just needs to calibrate the touch screen and tune the touch sensitivity which is done quickly and easily through the App.