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Sony is an electronics and media company. Only programming questions about Sony's APIs and SDKs are on topic. This tag should not be used for customer/product support.

Sony commercializes a variety of products such as audio players, TVs, gaming consoles, digital cameras and smartphones.

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Official developer website

Sony Developer World general Sony developer resources.
Sony Developer World Mobile for mobile, tablets and smart watches.

Sony SDKs

Sony Add-on SDK (for mobile, tablet and smartwatch)
Sony Camera Remote API (for Sony digital cameras)
Sony Google TV Add-on SDK (for Sony Google TV devices)
Sony SmartEyeglass SDK (for Sony SmartEyeglass)
Lifelog API (for Lifelog)

Tutorials & Sample Apps

Mobile, Tablet and Smartwatch sample apps
Camera Remote API tutorials
Google TV tutorials

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Sony Camera API over USB

Is the Sony camera API available over USB or bluetooth? Specifically I want to be able to download pictures as they are taken (picture mode) on a A5000 and I cannot use WiFi. Any information or links to appropriate USB tethering protocols would be…
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Sony SmartWatch 2: need to change supportsLowPowerMode() at runtime

I have an app for the SW2 that has a user option for whether the app should use low-power mode (LPM). Which works fine. The problem is that the SW API only calls my app's supportsLowPowerMode() registration method once, when it first starts up.…
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Sony Action Camera API

We need to develop an appliacation using the Sony Action Cam and the Camera Remote Api. Our application needs to give the see the files recorded and to transfer the recorded video files from the camera to the smart Phone or to a PC using the…
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How to get mkbootimg for Android kernel development for Sony Xperia ZR?

I recently got the kernel to compile under Ubuntu (see my answer on Askubuntu for details) but noted that the ~/10.4.B.0.569/kernel/README_Xperia file mentions some prerequisites such as * ramdisk.img - root fs * mkbootimg - boot.img generator to…
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Windows compatibility with the Sony Camera Remote API

In the "How to develop an app using the Camera Remote API" toturial it states "The Camera Remote API uses JSON-RPC over HTTP. You can therefore use the Camera Remote APIs with any operating system, such as Android, IOS or Microsoft® Windows®." This…
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Sony Smartwatch - open smartwatch getting started?

Today almost by accident I stumbled accross the announcement that Sony is opening the firmware development and creates a project under their own hood here: http://developer.sonymobile.com/services/open-smartwatch-project/ Which is great! But it…
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Android Sqlite SQLiteDiskIOException: disk I/O error (code 1290) SQLITE_IOERR_DIR_FSYNC

I have quite a lot of customers getting the exception mentioned in the title, but i can't reproduce it on any of my devices. Bug Reports seem to suggest that the error happens only on Sony devices, but i can't seem to find any reports of Sony doing…
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Programmatically accessing the contents of a Sony MP3 player

How to access/manipulate Sony MP3 player’s contents programmatically?.. A Sony Walkman MP3 player (NWZ-W202) is connected to a Vista Ultimate PC through a USB port. The player contents is visible by the Windows Explorer as “Computer\WALKMAN…
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Sony Xperia T (ST26) calendar account issue

After factory reset of the device. I'm trying to retrieve the calendars display names(by the code below), it returns that there is no calendars. but when opening the device Calendar application at least one time, the default phone calendar will be…
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android app uses more RAM than max heap size on some phones

I have an app that runs OK on most phones(such as Nexus **): the memory usage never goes above 24MB. But on my Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc, after running for a few days, it uses more than 70MB RAM (according to Settings->Application->Running…
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Sony Camera Remote Control Python ILCE-6400

This month I have been looking for a way to control my camera with a python script. I was trying with libraries, but none of them worked. I also tried Sony SDK, but sadly it isn't compatible with my camera alpha-6400. I cannot find any sample…
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My app doesn't find the DataSource associated with the SmartBand 2 bracelet step counter sensor Google Fit API

My app doesn't find the DataSource associated with the SmartBand 2 bracelet step counter sensor, but if it finds the heart rate sensor y updates events in the onDatapoint method, what could be the problem? I try with My code is as follows: …
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Android TV switch HDMI input port programmatically

I would like to ask you, experienced programmers, if there is a way to switch HDMI input port programmatically from an app installed directly on a TV Sony Bravia. Let's say, on app startup the TV switches it's input to i.e. HDMI3. Is there a common…
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How to develop an app for Sony Bravia Internet TV?

My question is specifically for non android TVs. Sony did not specified much about TVs at developers.sony.com. The netflix and youtube apps are already built into that. I would like to know whether it is possible to write my own app and add into…
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Sony Camera Remote API available over USB on new models?

While Sony teases new camera models to customers (UMC-R10C, UMC-S3C) and mentions both API access and USB connectivity (rather than wifi) - the Sony Camera Remote API currently only mentions wifi. Is there any information on how to use those…
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