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GapiDraw is the graphics platform to use when creating applications with high demands for fast graphics on Windows Mobile devices!

GapiDraw comprises a framework and a set of C++ classes that together provide everything you need to create state-of-the-art applications such as games, navigational tools and advanced user interfaces for Windows Mobile devices.

By using GapiDraw we can help your application achieve:

1. EverQuest for the Pocket PC by Sony Online Entertainment. Click for larger version. Made with GapiDraw.

   Robustness. The GapiDraw platform has since its introduction in March 2002 been used in hundreds of commercial mobile applications, which have been tested on tens of thousands of mobile devices. Using the GapiDraw framework, your application too will work on these devices.
   
   
2. Advanced Features. GapiDraw comprises most features you will ever need to create state-of-the art graphical mobile applications such as games. For detailed information of GapiDraw's features, please head over to the feature list. Should you need more features you can easily expand GapiDraw using the included GapiDraw Extension library, or you can even purchase the full source code to add features with zero performance overhead to your applications!
   
   
3. High Performance. GapiDraw is meticulously crafted to perform at highest possible speed thanks to a technique called Template Meta Programming in C++. GapiDraw's blitter implementation is so advanced that it even formed the basis for a PhD thesis for one of our software designers! If hardware acceleration is available, GapiDraw will use DirectDraw to provide hardware-accelerated graphics at very high speed. If you need extreme graphics performance on mobile devices, you cannot go wrong with GapiDraw! 

GapiDraw : More Than Just a Game Tool

Storm Hawk by Weather Data. Click for larger version. Made with GapiDraw.

Thanks to it's proven name with mobile game developers, GapiDraw has also become popular among developers of mobile business applications. Some applications released using GapiDraw include the weather watching application Storm Hawk (as seen in the figure on the right) and the mobile cad system Pocket CAD.

Recently we have also sold source code licenses to some of the major brands in the mobile media industry. Due to non-disclosure agreements we unfortunately cannot list the names of these companies on our web site, but trust us - if you see an advanced mobile media application running on the Windows Mobile platform, chances are high that it is based on the robust and high performing GapiDraw platform.

Read about all the new features in GapiDraw 4.0

What you can do with GapiDraw

Resco Guardians by Resco Interactive. Click for larger version. Made with GapiDraw.

Using GapiDraw you can create world-class games and high performance interactive applications that will run on all Windows Mobile, Pocket PC 2003 and Smartphone devices. GapiDraw has been used in hundreds of commercial games since the first launch in March 2002, and has also been used in numerous applications for telematics, research, CAD/CAM and navigational tools.

The perfect tool for Xperia panels!

The Sony Ericsson Xperia mobile phone introduced an API for creating panels for the device.  A panel is a window that the user can use as a start screen on the device, and the user can switch seamlessly between nine different panels.

GapiDraw has extensive support for today screen plugin development as well as Xperia panel development. When creating a DLL or plugin with GapiDraw you can open the display as an offscreen display, and can then draw to it with the full GapiDraw feature set at the same blazingly fast performance as seen in the top notch games shown on these web pages!

If you want to develop a game or an advanced visual application for the Sony Ericsson Xperia today you can use GapiDraw to provide maximum graphics performance while you focus on the content!

What's included in the package?

GapiDraw is delivered as a Software Development Kit (SDK) that is accessible using a C++ interface layer. A third-party Microsoft .NET interface is available for download, which makes it possible to use GapiDraw with a development environment such as C# .NET.

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