By now you'll have obtained the QNX CAR development platform. Two important
components of the platform are:
- WebWorks
- This is the development
framework that will give you access to all of the automotive APIs, including
vehicle sensors, the navigation route, Bluetooth, climate control, multimedia,
voice recognition, text-to-speech, as well as many other useful APIs to interact
with the vehicle and the driver. For the full API details, see the
JavaScript Framework Reference.
- The WebWorks installer is available on Foundry27 for the QNX CAR platform 2.0
Reference Release, in the folder File Releases > QNX CAR platform 2.0 RR -
Webworks.
WebWorks is an HTML5 SDK and JavaScript Framework for
developing your HTML5 apps. It allows you to:
- Package an HTML5 app to deploy it to the target
- Create JavaScript APIs to access native services on the
platform
- Use web server emulation so that your app can run without actually
running webserver on the target hardware.
- Provide security features
- Ripple
- This is a web-based emulator that allows you to test HTML5
apps for use on the HMI directly from your browser. From Ripple, you can
simulate all of the HMI APIs without the need to package or install your app on
a development target. If not currently installed, the Ripple emulator is
available on Foundry27 for the QNX CAR platform 2.0 Reference Release, in the
folder File Releases > QNX CAR platform 2.0 RR -
Ripple. For detailed instructions about installing and configuring
the Ripple emulator, see Installing the Ripple emulator
Note: Google Chrome is the preferred browser for Ripple to run in.
You will also need a web server to host your
app for testing and debugging. You may use any web server you wish (or use an external
host).
Note: We strongly
discourage testing with the file:/// protocol because this may
cause unintended behavior.