Garmin's Smartphone Solutions

Garmin Mobile XT is an easy, plug-and-play solution that transforms your Smartphone into a turn-by-turn navigator. No subscription is required, and detailed maps, POIs and navigation software are all pre-loaded on a Micro data card with Mini/SD adaptors.

Garmin Mobile SDK

For developers wishing to incorporate Garmin Mobile XT into an existing application, Garmin offers a set of SDKs across Windows Mobile, Palm, and Symbian operating systems.

These SDKs provide your application with access to GPS information, map interaction, and routing by leveraging Garmin's software on the same mobile device. Garmin Mobile XT is compatible with devices that include embedded GPS or paired to a GPS receiver via USB/Serial connection. ( NMEA 0183 data format)

For those devices requiring GPS signal as well, customers and application providers can pair Garmin Mobile XT with one of Garmin's Bluetooth hardware packages including Garmin Mobile 10 For Smartphones or Garmin Mobile 20.

By utilizing the SDK for Smartphones developers can:

• Access the data from the GPS such as GPS status, position, velocity, and time;
• Create points at a specified latitude and longitude, at the location of an address, at the location the user selects from a map, and at the location of an item the user selects through the find menu;
• Get information about a point, display a window showing the details of a point including its location on a map and create a route from the current location to a point.

Visit developer.garmin.com to access all of the Smartphone SDKs

To ensure you can take advantage of all the capabilities the SDK has to offer, please make sure you are using the latest version of Garmin Mobile XT