14 DAY TRIAL // When announcing the release of Galaxy Note back in September, South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung unveiled a new technology for the device, materialized in the availability of a digital pen for the smartphone, called S Pen. The pen was meant to offer additional features to users interested in getting more from their devices, and was accompanied by a series of developer tools for those developers aiming at delivering applications based on this technology.
The S Pen SDK came with access to new capabilities that the large 5.3-inch screen that Galaxy Note has to offer, and a new flavor of the developer tools can now be downloaded.
With this SDK, developers can easily implement drawing features to their applications, as it delivers an easy-to-use CanvasView that has been specialized for the S Pen. There are also two types of popup windows available for configuring the pen and eraser.
One of the main features that the new 1.5 release of the SDK brings along is the addition of configuration classes and APIs for the pen and eraser, complemented by CanvasView APIs.
The new flavor of the tools delivers new and improved Zoom, along with updated Panning, customizable letter/note background images, and more.
The changes operated in the new S Pen SDK 1.5 include: The PenSettingInfo class has been added. Using this class and APIs, developers can configure the pen and eraser properties and apply changes to the CanvasView.
Zoom functions have been added for the CanvasView. The drawing screen of the CanvasView can be zoomed into from 1x to 50x.
A panning function for the CanvasView has been added. Developers can pan across the drawing screen of the CanvasView by specifying the x and y coordinates. A background setting function for the CanvasView has been added. Developers can set a background that has been manipulated with the CanvasView zooming in/out and panning functions.
Errors in some of the SDK 1.0 documents have been corrected. few Pen property constants have been deprecated. Although they are still available in version 1.0 and the current version, they will be removed in the future.
The S Pen SDK 1.5 is available for download now via Samsung’s developer website.