Zebra Dev Podcast

Zebra DEVPODCAST hosts Dan Quagliana and Mark Jolley are joined by MicroEJ’s CEO Fred Rivard and VP of US Sales, Robert Diloreto. MicroEJ builds cost-driven solutions for embedded and IoT devices. MicroEJ decided to try and duplicate what has been done for the smart phone industry for printers. With developers moving to develop on the Android platform, MicroEJ saw an opportunity to add app capability to other devices to provide additional value and to future proof them. By building a small application platform to fit into lots of printers and to re-use and scale apps across broader fleet of devices, MicroEJ was able to embed the full standard language of Java to create an on-board service onto a Zebra printer. With growth and rise in mobile phones, and as Android continues as the preferred platform along with Java growth, MicroEJ, alongside Zebra can help developers develop faster and easier with Java applications as they build for printers. So how much of the Java applications are proprietary to the Mi