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Great resource if you want datacentric apps

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This is a very useful site that you should acquaint yourself with. You can create apps that work with SQL Server with all of the following: C# Java NodeJS PHP Python on Windows macOS RHEL UBUNTU SLES (Suse...) You need to start at this link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/developer-get-started/

This is the core of the future of 'Windows', the Universal Windows Platform

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Windows evolved from just windows to include 'phones'. When Windows 8.1 was introduced Windows Runtime(WinRT) which was evolution of Windows app model came up with the Universal Windows 8 apps for both Windows and Windows Phone. Windows and Windows Phone shared a ccommon piece of code. Universal Windows Platform was introduced beginning Windows 10. The target was no more the Windows OS or Windows Phone OS but a common platform with a unified core. This core runs on all devices in the Windows family. Devices running this core can target can not only call WinRT APIs that are common to all devices but also Win32 and .NET APIs that are specific to device family. This means all you need to develop is a single app package that can be installed on a wide variety of devices shown here. UWP_00.PNG On any device, you have therefore, the guaranteed core and you add APIs on top of it specific to the device. You will conditionally access the device specific featur...

What do you need to build apps for Windows 10 Mobile?

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Microsoft has manufacturers' support not only in US but also in emerging markets and Japan. If you are trying to develop apps for the Window platform this is the starting point. Go this link here: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows Download a free copy of Visual Studio 2015 Community Update 3 and it has the required SDK. From desktop to IoT you have plenty of samples based on the Universal Windows Platform(UWP): Windows10MobileAug2016_01.PNG Review this informative video "Designing Universal Windows Platform apps" You can build apps for Windows 8.1, Windows and iOS devices as seen here in the New Project templates.

Building WebRTC apps with Intel XDK

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Intel XDK has the right tools to build WebRTC apps. There are widgets that gets you started shown here. You can use Intel XDK together with Intel Collaboration Suite for Web RTC to build the real time communication apps. With Intel Collaboration Suite for Web RTC (Intel CS for WebRTC ) it is possible to build apps for real time communication over the web. You need to use the Intel CS for WebRTC SDK built on top of W3C standard for WebRTC. You can create apps for broadcast, peer-to-peer and apps for conference. To cater to the major OSs and HTML, the SDK is available in four versions one each for: Android JavaScript iOS Windows There is a server that you need to get used to: Intel CS for WebRTC Conference Server that provides the Video Conference Service that streams the service to many end points with the following quoted features: High performance, VP8 and H.264 real-time transcoding with Intel® Iris™ Pro and Intel HD Graphics Scalable multipoin...

Mobile Game Development Made Easy

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If you are a game developer, I suppose you may not even read this post. Unity is a multi-platform, 2D/3D game development engine and you can learn about it here ( unity3d.com ). It is supported on most platforms and a leader in game development. With just one click you can deploy to: Mobile - iOS, Android, Windows and Tizen VR Desktop Web Console and  TV platforms. Here are the platforms to which you can deploy the games. Unity_01 If you are developing for the mobile area it has lots of built-in stuff: One-click deployment to Android, iOS, Windows Phone, and Tizen. Tons of optimizations thanks to features like occlusion culling, asset bundling, and build size stripping. World class monetization and retention services for mobile games. Dedicated, easy to use 3D and 2D tools and workflows. Unity for VR and AR is already garnering from most vendors shown here: Unity_02 You can develop very immersive and entertaining games for the desktop be it Windows, ...

App analytics with App Annie

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You have worked on an App and you want to know how it is doing. What you need is some analytical information. App Annie which provides App Analytics has several products of which the Store Stats is free. It claims to have 0.5 million registered members. Hourly and daily charts plus ranking for millions of apps is made available using the Staore Stats. Of course there is also a Pro version if you pay $59/month. The other premium products are: Store Intelligence Usage Intelligence Audience Intelligence App Store Analytics Advvertising Analytics In-App Analytics What I like is it covers all the important App Stores like, iOS, Apple TV, Mac, Google Play, Amazon, Windows Phone and Windows. Here is a over view of the dashboard and you can drill down to details in various ways and do filtering. Here is details for iPhone and you can splice and dice. I did not see a search box on this screen. Well your app has to have sufficient tracking before it can make it into the ...

AppMethod - One-stop mulitdevice app development platform

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IoT has to be 'Universal'. Therefore, it has to be multi-platform, multi-device, device-size agnostic and more. This is why you hear more and more 'cross-platform' development. This app works on iPhone but not on Android etc. will not do. AppMethod is one such program from the veteran, Embarcadero. Sign up here to get software that you can use to build apps in record short time. http://www.appmethod.com/sign-up?cid=701G0000000vHaD   Registration is needed, but easy with few elements. Note that the downlaoded program (file size: 3GB) is free for only one year. Read the information on the download page above. See overview here taken from a video on the site Features overview One-stop mulitdevice app development platform Supports Internet of Things FireUI Multi-device designer Enterprisemobility Devices with FireDAC support