Software development kit for aircraft tablet device and airborne application server

A software development kit (SDK) application server system for an aircraft, comprising:

• one or more processing core modules configured to process avionics data;
• a data reader module configured to receive avionics data and send the avionics data to at least one of the one or more processing core modules;
• and
• one or more application logic modules configured to respectively execute one or more applications, the one or more application logic modules further configured to access requested avionics data from the one or more processing core modules and instruct a display module to create a display of the requested avionics data, wherein the avionics data processed by the one or more processing core modules is separated from the one or more application logic modules.

A computer-implemented method for providing avionics data to a portable computing device using a software development kit (SDK) application server, the method comprising:

• receiving, at a data reader module of the SDK application server, avionics data from one or more data sources;
• sending the received avionics data from the data reader module to one or more processing core modules of the SDK application server to process the avionics data;
• receiving, by the SDK application server, a request for avionics data;
• accessing, by one or more application logic modules of the SDK application server, the requested avionics data from the one or more processing core modules, wherein the avionics data processed by the one or more processing core modules is separated from the one or more application logic modules;
• and
• generating, by a display module, a display of the requested avionics data.