
XPERIA™ Panels
XPERIA™ panels are always one click away, and with simple touch selection, applications are placed at the center of the user experience. With the Sony Ericsson Panel SDK for X2 it’s now easier than ever before to create Panels. New Panelizer tools enable you to quickly make Panels not only from native applications, but also Flash, Java and Project Capuchin. From mid-September 2009 you will be able to directly submit your Panels to Sony Ericsson’s sales channels.

The Sony Ericsson Panel SDK for X2 is a set of tools, plug-ins and documentation that allows you to develop and test Panels for the XPERIA™ X2 phone. XPERIA™ Panels are applications that extend the Today Screen API in order to provide a Full Screen immersive experience.
The Microsoft® Visual Studio® IDE Plug-in allows you to develop and debug XPERIA™ Panels that run on the XPERIA™ X2 phone using the included XPERIA™ X2 Emulator.
You also can develop these types of Panel using the Panel SDK:
The support for OpenGL® ES 1.1 in X2 provides advanced 3D graphics for an exciting gaming experience.
You can also develop standard (non-Panel) applications for Windows Mobile 6.5 for XPERIA™ X2 phone.
New Panelizer Tools
To make it easy to produce Panels for the XPERIA™ X2, the new Panelizer features enable you to take an existing application and turn it in to a Panel. Simply supply the required inputs and click the Create Package button.
| Tool | Input | Output |
| Java Panelizer tool | JAD file JAR file 4 image files |
CAB (Panel) |
| Flash Panelizer tool | SWF file 4 image files MMI.DLL (optional) |
CAB (Panel) |
| EXE panelizer function in Visual Studio | EXE 4 image files |
CAB (Panel) |
| NET panelizer function in Visual Studio | .NET 4 image files |
CAB (Panel) |
The four image files (24-bit BMP) are required to represent the application in the Panels interface:
Portrait |
Landscape |
Large Portrait |
Large Landscape |
200 x 94 |
120 x 174 |
400 x 188 |
240 x 348 |
Panelizer Tutorials
These brief tutorials show how easy it is to use the Panelizers.
Sony Ericsson Panel SDK for X2 - Contents
The Panel SDK for X2 includes:
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Software Requirements:
Windows XP (32-bit only; SP2 or later):
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Windows Vista (32-bit only):
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The Sony Ericsson Beta SDK for Windows Mobile® 6.1 is a set of tools, plug-ins and documentation that allows you to develop and test Xperia™ Native Panels, Xperia Web (HTML) Panels, Xperia Panels with OpenGL ES support and applications for Windows Mobile 6.1 for Xperia X1 phone.
The Microsoft® Visual Studio® IDE Plug-in allows you to develop and debug Xperia Panels that run on the Xperia X1 phone using the included Xperia X1 Device Emulator.
The SDK v1.0.5 release adds Xperia Panels with OpenGL ES support, allowing developers to incorporate a broad set of redering, texture mapping, special effects and other powerful visualization functions and provides a graphics pipeline that allows free access to graphics hardware acceleration on the Xperia X1 phone through the Xperia Panels interface.
Xperia Panels are Windows Mobile applications that extend the Today Screen API in order to provide a Full Screen immersive experience.

The Sony Ericsson Beta SDK for Windows Mobile 6.1 includes:
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Software Requirements:
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