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the ford developer program is live today and the automobile is now open for business with this program we have done everything possible to make it easy to work with app link to get started just visit developer for calm and sign up everything you need to know is explained on the site from software and sample code to agreements and licences we encourage everyone to log on and start thinking about the types of apps that can bring customers valuable content while keeping their eyes on the road and their hands on the wheel we generally look for apps in the categories of music and entertainment news and information networking location and navigation health and wellness and personal productivity now while we can't write down all the rules for appropriate in vehicle app usage there are some types of apps we can't accept we will instantly deny any apps that attempt to display video content or rich imagery when connected to the vehicle apps that require extensive text or reading of text on the in-vehicle display and absent involve playing games once you have a great idea for an app you can take advantage of the most comprehensive set of resources available from any automaker the software development kits for iPhone and Android documentation sample code test procedures tips and tricks blog posts an online forum and the staff of for developers to help you out we'll even make a technology development kit available it's basically a sink in a box so you can test your app even if you don't own a Ford vehicle but I'd be happy to sell you one over the next few months our team will be releasing even more tooling such as a software Emily emulator self-certification tools and debugging options to get you developing even faster the ford developer program site is available to all developers globally first in english with other languages to come if you have a great idea but you don't want to develop your app on your own you don't have to the ford developer program will connect you with jake apps are approved app development house once you have an app built you can request distribution rights at which point your app will undergo rigorous testing to ensure that it works as intended it meets our criteria for safe driving provided your app passes in the first round of testing all of this can happen at no cost to you if you need help you can use the dev site to engage our testing partner set a calm we know there are a number of options out there but we believe developers can be more successful using the app link API more than any other available for automobiles why it's simple you develop on the same high volume mobile platforms as usual we're not asking you to learn an all-new platform it's easy developers have integrated the API in a matter of a few days it's high volume and global there are more than 1 million cars on the road and more coming this year in markets around the world and there's help we have a dedicated team dedicated to help you with questions that you may have about the SDK and getting an app to market in fact today we are announcing the addition of nine new apps to our ecosystem and they're all with us here today you