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Native Device Capabilities
In this article we will focus on interactions with the device capabilities and available 3rd party applications from Rich Media Applications.
It is usually convenient to interact with the handset contact book data for any rich media application that is intended to perform phone calls and/or manage contacts.
Relevant identified use-cases are:
- list contacts (i.e. present contact book in rich media application)
- select contact (and usually perform phone call or sent contact info to server)
- edit contact info
As part of a social networking rich media application, it can be convenient to enable using the handset camera to capture either a photo or a video (that is then usually uploaded to a server in order to be shared).
The purpose of this article is to provide straightforward information concerning the support of platform capabilities, as made available by manufacturers in their platform SDKs. Such information can be used to identify a given feature availability when required within a Rich Media Application.
It can be convenient to integrate a web view (browser) in order to display web content within a Rich Media Application.
Relevant identified use-cases are:
- Access existing web catalog
- Accessing extra web info related to the currently displayed information
- Add to cart and order on the web
As a consequence some features have been granted in Streamezzo solution in order to provide the ability to interoperate with an integrated web view.