We are very pleased to announce NAVBuilder Inside 2.1! We have added new features and enhancements to make NBI more robust. NAVBuilder Inside now gives you options to monetize your application using location based coupons and deals APIs. You can also expand your customer base by deploying your application cross-carrier. Support for MapKit on the iOS platform has also been added.
Developers can now monetize their application and offer great deals to their users through the coupon and deal APIs. NBI SDK 2.1 offers a 70% revenue share to developers and provides a means for developers to track their revenue online.
NBI now operates cross-carrier. You heard right! NBI is now available to deploy across major wireless carriers in the US.
You asked, and we delivered. NBI now supports iOS, giving your app the ability to use location based features on one of the most popular smartphones available.
Enables overlay of 3rd party content such as terrain maps, trails, custom POI layers.
Optimizations to LocationKit and MapKit enable faster positioning and faster map tile downloads.
NBI and CityGrid are inviting developers to use the NBI APIs and CityGrid APIs in their apps. Leverage the power of these APIs to build apps with great local content. Verizon will feature these apps in Android Marketplace and Verizon Apps.
Watch Marni Walden (CMO of Verizon Wireless) and Kris Kolodziej (Associate Director, Verizon Wireless) talk about NBI
Did you know NBI allows your users to send (or share) maps amongst each other in your application?
The easiest way to do this is use NBI_MapToURL to get a URL representation of your current map state, including a selected pin. The map can then be recreated from this URL using NBI_MapFromURL. In addition, NBI provides a function to serialize an NBI_Place structure into an array of bytes that is URL-safe (NBI_MapPlaceToByteArray). You can use this function to easily create a file with your pins and send it over email or MMS. The receiving application can then use NBI_MapByteArrayToPlace to recover the NBI_Place structures and use them to add the pins on the map. Since not all recipients of your messages will have NBI installed, we have designed the URL to be a real live URL. If your users receive an NBI map URL and there is no special handling for it, selecting it will launch the browser pointing to the NBI map URL server, and it will be rendered on the browser.
