The SNAP Mobile Platform
The SNAP Mobile Platform is based on the industry leading Microsoft Windows CE / Windows Mobile platform, which we feel provides the best platform for mobile handheld applications. This platform is not only a top notch development platform, but is also supported by the leading mobile terminals provided by companies such as Motorola and Intermec, and mobile printers provided by Zebra and O'Neil.
The Microsoft Development Platform
The Windows CE / Windows Mobile platform provides all of the functionality of a mobile computer including an extensive GUI, network support, SQL database, and a thriving development environment that continues to provide innovative solutions.
By standardizing on the Microsoft platform, we are able to leverage the extensive investment that Microsoft has made in the Visual Studio development studio, libraries, tools, and development community.
The Mobile Terminal Platform
In addition to using the best software platform, we are also able to take advantage of the best mobile terminals for the retail, field service, distribution, and healthcare industries. These terminals, provided by vendors such as Motorola and Intermec, provide hardware specifically designed for Enterprise Mobile Applications.
These terminals also provide hardware extensions including barcode scanners, imagers, magnetic stripe readers, RFID Readers, Wireless LAN, and other platform specific extensions to Windows CE. These extensions provide much of the benefit of these hardware platforms, however all of the interfaces have vendor and device specific SDKs that make cross-platform development a challenge.
To address these challenges, the StepOne team has developed the SNAP Platform Detect functionality to provide a standard development interface to vendor specific SDKs. With SNAP Platform Detect, the application uses a standard API, and appropriate SDK inerface libraries to support the current hardware platform.
The Mobile Printing Platform
The SNAP framework also provides a flexible approach to support mobile printers. We support BlueTooth, WLAN, and Serial interfaces to these printers.
SNAP natively supports the O'Neil and Zebra series of mobile printers. These printers provide mobile printing for a complete mobile solution.