Imagine you are 1 of 2 people running an entire department, and your boss says:
“Get those interactive maps out there to our public. You have 2 days to make it happen. Oh, and put them in that app store thingy my family keeps talkin’ about.”
You’ve never had a computer science course in your life. This is the 11th hat you need to start wearing.
You’ve used native Android and iOS apps on your device, of course, but never imagined building one of those.
Now, imagine that you found a way to use a “Markup” approach, similar to HTML/JavaScript/JSON markup structures, to make a single app that runs on any iOS phone, Android phone, iPAD, Samsung tablet (Yay!) , Microsoft Surface Pro, Windows laptop, Windows desktop, Linux device….embedded or stand-alone….connected, and/or disconnected from a network…any environment…any device….anything.
Introducing Esri’s new QML API, coming in a few short weeks in a Beta of the ArcGIS Runtime SDK for Qt.
This new Runtime API makes great native application development easily achievable for a much wider audience and workforce.
Read a little more on GeoNet!
Thank you Digia!