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Zytronic intros app for designing multitouch UIs for Android at DSE16

Touch sensor solutions developer Zytronic today announced its Android ZyConfig App designed to make it quicker and easier to design multitouch user interfaces for Android.

March 16, 2016

Touch sensor solutions developer Zytronic today announced its Android ZyConfig App designed to make it quicker and easier to design multitouch user interfaces for Android.

"Android is becoming increasingly popular as system integrators adopt the freely available operating system and the lower-cost computing hardware that supports it," Zytronic Vice President of Sales and Marketing Ian Crosby said in the announcement. "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."

The app is available from http://zytronic.co.uk/support/downloads and 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 touchscreen and tune the touch sensitivity through the app. 

"Each target hardware running Android can be slightly different, and setting up the Android operating system to work with a touch controller and touchscreen requires a certain amount of low-level software configuration, which not all companies have the in-house expertise to perform," Crosby said. "We've made it as easy as downloading an app onto the target hardware and performing two simple steps to remove the complexity from the installation and set-up process."