Bondi (software)

BONDI (named after Bondi Beach) is an API framework aimed at mobile devices. OMTP launched the BONDI initiative, which defined new interfaces (Javascript APIs) and a security framework (based on XACML policy description) to enable the access to mobile phone functionality (e.g. camera, location, messaging, persistent data) from a browser or widget engine in a secure way.

BONDI
Developer(s)	Open Mobile Terminal Platform
Initial release	16 February 2009; 16 years ago (2009-02-16) at MWC 2009
Stable release	BONDI 1.1 / 11 February 2010; 15 years ago (2010-02-11)[1]
Platform	Windows Mobile (reference implementation), Android, BREW, iOS[citation needed], Java, LiMo, Maemo, Palm OS, RIM[citation needed], Symbian, bada
License	Apache 2.0
Website	bondi.omtp.org

BONDI supports widget-based applications as well as web-based applications.

History

Work on BONDI started in 2008. The first BONDI widget, based on a preliminary version of the 1.0 specification, was shown at Mobile World Congress in February 2009.

Version 1.0 of the API specification released on June 2, 2009,^[2] with a maintenance release (1.01) following on July 30, 2009.^[3]

Version 1.1 of the API was released as stable on February 11, 2010.^[4]

In February 2010, at the Mobile World Congress, the Samsung Wave was released as the first mobile phone to contain BONDI as a built-in API, as part of its bada platform.

Policies

To safeguard users from malicious web applications, BONDI defines a policy layer between the API and the device. Policies can be set on a widget provider level (for signed widgets), on a widget level, or on an API call-by-call level for web pages. Every widget carries a manifest declaring the APIs to be used by that widget, allowing users to install (or deny installation) based on the function the widget intends to use.