World Wind on Android Brice Bingman Software Engineer

QinetiQ North America Proprietary NASA World Wind Overview  3D globe displaying geographic data  WMS Imagery, KML, Shapefiles, Mil2525, and much more  Open Source SDK  Free to use  Create your own application  Uses Java and OpenGL  Supported wherever Java and OpenGL are supported

QinetiQ North America Proprietary World Wind on Android  Android uses Dalvik, a scaled down version of Java  Android uses Opengl ES, a scaled down version of Opengl  World Wind and Android are a good fit. History:  Qinetiq creates Qglobe for Android, donates code to NASA  Features WMS imagery, KML, Icon Layers  Disables elevation for performance reasons  Uses OpenGL ES 1.0  NASA creates World Wind Android  Features WMS imagery and elevation  Not much more functionality  Uses OpenGL ES 2.0  We want better performance  Dalvik JVM not as fast as it could be. Will likely be improved in future versions of Android  C++ is faster as of now.

QinetiQ North America Proprietary Future of World Wind on Android Long term future, Rewrite code in C++ for better performance and compatibility with iOS and Windows phone. Some version of C++ and OpenGL ES can be used on most mobile devices. Likely 2+ years away Near term future: World Wind Android X Community supported project to improve and add more features to World Wind Android NASA providing svn hosting: Bridge the gap until a C++ version is available