BeoSound Moment

A product ahead of its time

Bang & Olufsen • Android App Developer • 2013–2014

BeoSound Moment product was a custom Android Tablet originally using NVIDIA Tegra process for SOC.

But it does not look and feel like Android Tablet because the Android OS was modified from UI to OS kernel level to give a whole different experience.

The launcher starts a Music app that can seamless integrate with streaming services such as Deezer and TuneIn.

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Live Product

Bang & Olufsen BeoSound Moment

Key Features

The Device has many cool features that were way ahead of its time:

Multi-service music integration — A unified browsing and playback experience across Deezer, TuneIn Radio, DLNA media sources, and Gracenote metadata.

Mood Wheel discovery — Custom UI components, animations, and interactive controls supporting B&O's Mood Wheel interface for music discovery.

Device setup and connectivity — System-level settings and onboarding for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth pairing, account management, and product activation.

Over-the-air updates — On-device software distribution, firmware downloads, and update management.

What I Built

• Android system applications for music browsing, playback control, and device management
• Content-provider integrations for Deezer, TuneIn, DLNA, and Gracenote behind a shared abstraction layer
• Custom UI components, animations, and interaction patterns matched to B&O's design language
• An OpenCV motion-detection pipeline processing the camera feed to drive motion-aware behavior in the interface
• Onboarding flows for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, user accounts, and device provisioning
• Services for product registration, activation, crash reporting, and OTA updates
• A port of legacy C++ service components to Java, simplifying maintenance and Android integration
• Build and deployment automation with Apache Ant and Python

Technical Highlights

Cross-device communication

I helped built the messaging layer between the audio system and the Android Nexus tablet over Wi-Fi, keeping metadata, playback state, and controls synchronized across both.

The interface (Jukebox) and hub (SoundHeart) are connected via your wireless network.

Original code was in CPP API. With aid of automated tools we translated CPP to Java. However, it was not clean, and we had to still do a lot of work to clean the code

Service modernization

Migrated native C++ components into Java service layers, cutting maintenance overhead and making integration with the Android apps far simpler.

Embedded Android — Worked below the application layer, integrating platform services, hardware drivers, connectivity modules, and system settings on an embedded Android target.

Challenges & Approach

The system depended on several external music providers, proprietary hardware, and system-level Android features that all had to behave as a single product.

I isolated each content provider behind a common interface, built the device-communication services that kept the two devices in sync, and worked directly with the hardware and firmware teams on driver integration.

The result was a shipping multimedia platform — cloud streaming, local media, hardware controls, and OTA updates — running in a Bang & Olufsen consumer product.

Technology Stack

• Mobile & platform — Android, Java, Android Framework, Android Settings, Fragments
• Media & connectivity — Deezer API, TuneIn API, DLNA, Gracenote, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, socket communication
• Computer vision — OpenCV (motion detection)
• Backend services — Java web services, REST APIs
• Systems programming — C++, Java
• Build & automation — Apache Ant, Python
• Hardware integration — Custom device drivers, embedded Android platform development