The project of modular smartphone Project Ara is open to third-party developers.

The project of modular smartphone Project Ara, from Motorola Google, is developing more and more actively. Not so long ago, the project team announced that the smartphone should go on sale in 2015 . And now the project has been opened for third-party developers by publishing an 81-page Module Developers Kit (MDK).



In fact, the project team has opened a wide road to the project for third-party developers, in order to create a reliable and extensive ecosystem for their smartphone. "The success of the Ara project is based on a rich, vibrant and extensive ecosystem of modules from myriad developers," the project team said in a statement.

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Representatives of the Habrasoobshchestvo, if desired, can also be included in these “myriads”. Fortunately, the configurations of the smartphone itself can be thousands and thousands. The published document provides examples of such configurations for models from mini to large. Earlier it was stated that there will be three types of the main platform for assembling a smartphone: small, basic, medium, and large, on the basis of which it is possible to construct phablets (tablet phones).







Examples of valid configurations for the device have been published, here are a few examples:







As far as you can understand, the corporation reserves the right to determine the final design of the smartphone, in any case, developers should be guided by the examples that were provided above. In addition, the smartphone module must meet certain requirements, including the rectangular shape and the base of 6061 aluminum.







There may be modules of other configurations, but they will have to be made external, like this medical module, to determine the level of oxygen in the blood:







Download Project Ara MDK at this link . But as far as can be understood, the Russian-language site about Project Ara is an unofficial resource.