Aftek is developing an interactive STB framework on Android platform. This framework can help provisioning of various STB applications like astrology, interactive city, online bill payment, news, e-shopping and weather forecast. It also offers integration with various web services like YouTube, Google maps and more. Additionally, you can add / upgrade or remove applications on the fly.

The android STB platform hosts a dalvik virtual machine and various applications developed in android SDK. The STB framework facilitates the application to communicate with the application server framework over the internet. The application server framework, in turn, provides connector interfaces which can communicate with actual content providers.

Architecture

Suite of STB applications

• News: It provides the latest news directly from the Internet, complete with data and pictures. The news can be on subjects like business, sports, entertainment, health, India, world and more.
• Astro:It offers information on astrology based on the Zodiac signs. It will have sub-features like horoscope, numerology, zodiac traits, lifestyle, and so on.
• Weather forecasts: It displays the weather information of the selected city along with forecasts and satellite pictures.
• YouTube videos: : It displays the standard video list (top rated, most viewed). A user can then see videos by selecting the desired link.
• Maps: It displays the map of a selected city with important locations that the user can browse through.
• One can develop a wide range of other applications including banking, recipes, interactive learning, matrimony, stocks, travel, shopping and more.

• Applications - Vehicle Tracking System, CRM Solution, Trek Tool
• Components - Data Validator, Configuration Manager, Media Gallery, Xliff Manager
• Hardware - Intel PXA270, Intel Atom