After a successful and productive exhibit at AnDevCon, we have had a rewarding time talking to our many customers using the LEADTOOLS Android SDK. It is growing rapidly in popularity, and developers are putting it to use in many exciting ways. Fairly soon, LEADTOOLS should literally be in the palms of millions of hands around the world.

While the LEADTOOLS Android Java class library provides powerful imaging technology, some customers require native only apps or are simply more skilled and comfortable with C/C++ development. Recently, we have had several customers ask if it was possible to use LEADTOOLS C/C++ to create native Android apps (using the Android NDK) instead of using the Java class library. Never backing down from a challenge, our Developer Support agents created a sample project that shows off this functionality. Here’s a snippet of the C++ code that exposes L_IntensityDetectBitmap through JNI:

We have received several requests regarding PACS and DICOM Communication within our Android imaging SDK. One way of accomplishing this is by using JSON to communicate with the RESTful web services included with the HTML5 Zero Footprint DICOM Viewer.

The snippet below shows a portion of the asynchronous code that calls the RESTful Medical Viewer Service and then parses the JSON response to get the SOP Instance UID. After that, the SOP Instance UID is used to get the image data and put it into an InputStream.

LEADTOOLS Anywhere™ is getting pretty popular and keeping our sales and support staff busy. LEAD Technologies is a common sight around the world at various tradeshows and conferences. With our new cross-platform libraries we can now be a part of even more, and next week will mark the first time ever that LEAD will be an exhibitor at an Android specific conference!

Win a $25 Google Play Gift Card

At the end of each exhibit day, LEAD Technologies will be giving away five $25 Google Play gift cards to use on new apps and games for your Android device! Stop by our booth, let us scan your badge, and come back at the end of the day to see if your name gets chosen!

If you haven't noticed already, it's trade show season here in the US. In fact, I'm writing this post after setting up our booth at the Android Developer Conference (AnDevCon) in Boston! Next week, June 3 - 6, LEAD will be exhibiting at Microsoft's TechEd North America in New Orleans in booth #328.

We look forward to showcasing our entire document, medical, raster and multimedia imaging product lines. Not only do we have the latest and greatest imaging SDK features for all the wonderful Microsoft products featured at TechEd like .NET, Win 32/64, Windows 8, WinRT, Surface, and Windows Phones, but we also have the most powerful and versatile cross-platform imaging libraries for HTML5, iOS, OS X, Android and Linux in case you are looking to port your Microsoft apps to additional platforms.

The next two opportunities to meet with LEAD Technologies in person are coming up soon. This November we will be exhibiting at two shows: The Android Developer Conference and Visual Studio Live! As usual, we will have some great presentations on hand, showing off the latest and greatest imaging SDK technologies within LEADTOOLS, as well as some giveaways for stopping by. Check out the information below on where we'll be later this month. We hope to see you soon!

AnDevCon San Francisco

LEAD will once again be exhibiting at the Android Developer Conference, the "largest, coolest Android Developer Training Conference on Earth." LEADTOOLS has an incredible lineup of native imaging libraries for developing applications for Android. With Technologies like OCR, Barcode, Annotations, Image Processing, DICOM, PACS and more, our booth is one you can't miss if you are at the show. Giving away Google Play gift cards doesn't hurt either!