It’s time to drive smarter: Waze makes its fully-integrated big-screen debut on Ford SYNC
With 100 million users worldwide, the crowd-sourced traffic-busting navigation app Waze is obviously doing something right – and now, it’s coming to an infotainment screen near you…
AppLink is a suite of APIs that provide the ability for mobile developers to extend the command and control of a mobile application to the in-vehicle Human Machine Interface (HMI).

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SmartDeviceLink (SDL) is an open-source POSIX-compliant technology platform on which the Ford AppLink product is built and allows it to communicate between applications running on a mobile device and our SYNC in-vehicle software.
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OpenXC is a non-production open source interface, designed to attract top developers to experiment with DIY projects in Ford vehicles (with or without SYNC).

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Headquartered in Sweden, developers of the hugely popular podcast app ACast, was one of the winners of our Ford 2017 “Make it Driveable” P... Read more
You’ve listened to NPR in the car before, but not like this. The NPR News App for Ford SYNC offers the variety, choice, and flexibility of our s... Read more
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2000 channels and they’re always on – what’s not to Heart?
As one of the first partners to launch an AppLink enabled app, iHeartM... Read more
Blog Update
SmartDeviceLink (SDL) iOS 6.0.0 has been released
The SDLC has announced that iOS 6.0.0 has been released! Release, including Notes, can be found here: https://github.com/smartdevicelink/sdl_ios/releases/tag/6.0.0 . This release
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The SDLC has announced that Android 4.6.0 has been released!
The SDLC has announced that Android 4.6.0 has been released! The release, including Notes, can be found here: https://github.com/smartdevicelink/sdl_android/releases/tag/4.6.0 . This release includes
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