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Press release. FoxyTag provides for free an Android API allowing anyone to develop very easily his own speed camera warner and to benefit from the most complete speed cameras database.

FoxyTag is a worldwide speed camera warning system working on mobile phones. The system is collaborative and self-managed: The users “tag” the speed cameras and some electronic trust engines check the quality of the posted information. FoxyTag contains today more than 37′000 fixed speed cameras, mainly in Europe, South Africa, Australia, Maghreb, UAE, Brazil, China, Taïwan, USA, Canada, Russia, New Zealand, Singapore and Israel. FoxyTag signals also mobile speed cameras and ghosts (places where there are often mobile speed cameras).

The business model is very simple. FoxyTag manages the server and the database, and there are independent partners who create applications for the smartphones. These partners can sell their application as they want, they simply pay a fee to use the FoxyTag system. This way of doing allowed to create rapidly different speed camera warning systems for Java, iPhone and Android.

In order to accelerate the production of new applications, FoxyTag offers to its partners an API containing all the code to build a speed camera warner. The developers can then either simply customize it by changing the images, or to undertake further developments to provide new functionalities. According to Xavier Lemarchand, a former iPhone developer converted to Android, this offer is essential to ensure the involvement of new partners: “The success of a new application is so random that developers want to produce a first draft as quickly as possible, even if they have later to rework some parts before starting improvements. This API limits the risk.”

The first speed camera warning system built on this API is called AndroEye and is available free of charge. Then followed Cam Tag, iRadars, SpotRadars and StopRadars, all available for 2.35 EUR or for free in their Lite version, version supported by advertising.

AndroEye in action

For more information please visit:

http://www.foxytag.com

– Foxy

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