Developing and validating mobile applications is difficult, inefficient and costly. Content developers must test their applications across a broad selection of handsets with different operating systems, screen sizes, memory and processing capabilities. But devices are often difficult to obtain and content validation requires manual (and thus error-prone) processes. Mobile Complete’s DeviceAnywhere™ service provides developers with a straightforward solution to the challenges of developing and testing mobile applications.

Real Devices in Live Global Networks
DeviceAnywhere™, a revolutionary service from Mobile Complete, provides developers real-time interaction with real devices connected to live global networks. Built on Mobile Complete’s innovative device interaction technology, Direct-To-Device™, DeviceAnywhere empowers users to connect to and interact with mobile devices located even thousands of miles away – over the Internet. Developers simply log into our system, choose from the hundreds of devices and the networks currently supported and start testing. DeviceAnywhere enables users to remotely press device buttons, view LCD displays, listen to ringers and speakers, connect/disconnect batteries and play videos all from the comfort of their own desktop. With DeviceAnywhere, users have complete ‘virtual’ access to all interfaces of a device similar to having that device physically in their hand.

DeviceAnywhere Features and Benefits

Immediately access hundreds of handsets: Mobile Complete has deployed over 350 handsets in the US and Europe covering over a dozen different handset providers. We have the capabilities and experience to support any handset and are continually updating our system with the newest devices.

Enable remote development: Have an offshore development team? Want to enter a market where you have no physical presence? DeviceAnywhere handsets can be accessed from any location. There is no longer any need to travel; as long as you have an internet connection, you have access to DeviceAnywhere!

Test any application: Video, gaming, WAP, wallpaper, music and ringtone, messaging, mobile marketing, LBS and other types of content companies use DeviceAnywhere to test their applications. Because DeviceAnywhere utilizes direct connections to the input/output of live handsets, there are no limitations on what can be tested.

Applications, whether they are network based, client-based or even proprietary can be tested from the user’s point of view; anything that can be done with a physical device in your hand can be done through DeviceAnywhere.

Developer Solutions

Improve development processes:
Development teams can access real handsets earlier in the development cycle, porting teams can efficiently test code across a variety of devices and QA teams can generate test records including all actions (key presses, touch screen taps) and results (screens, audio output).

Facilitate information sharing:
DeviceAnywhere provides tools for sharing information and viewing realtime results.

• A test engineer could, for example, find an issue and share the error screen with the engineer who developed the application
  
  
• Users can share real-time views of the device screens; the same test engineer can show the error being generated to the developer in real time

Test interaction between multiple devices:
With DeviceAnywhere, users can interact with multiple devices concurrently, regardless of where the devices are located. Imagine testing a peer-to-peer application between a device located in San Francisco and a device located in London – all from the convenience of your desktop!

Direct-to-Device Technology At Work
Proprietary software allows the remote control and operation of DeviceAnywhere devices directly from the user’s PC.

Any Device. Any Network. Any Global Location.

• Electrical connections provide access to all hardware controls (keys, camera, open/close flip phone, touch screen, data cables, etc.)
  
  
• Outputs include video and audio streams, backlight and vibration
  
  
• Direct-to-Device means no simulation or emulation; all results are real
  screens or sounds from real handsets
  
  
• DeviceAnywhere supports any handset, OEM, OS, platform and
  network

For more information please read our Datasheet.

Automated Testing and Monitoring on Real Devices

Mobile Complete’s DeviceAnywhere Test and Monitor is an innovative online service that allows content providers to set up repeatable tests on real handsets over the Internet. The Test and Monitor service leverages our DeviceAnywhere™ infrastructure, which already includes hundreds of handsets deployed across multiple carrier networks.

Key features and benefits include:

Easily automate tests: Rapidly create hundreds of automated test or monitor scripts by utilizing our Record and Playback feature.

Save time and effort: Automating previously manual tasks. For example. once a script is created, you can also schedule it to run on a regular cadence as a monitor or at a specific time; alone or as part of a series of tests.

Become immediately aware of service-impacting events: Test and Monitor quickly detects problems that impact end-users reducing costly downtime and lost revenue.

Record all results: View performance data in real-time (trend charts and exact KPI values) via a web interface.