We are pleased to announce the release of the ArcGIS Runtime SDK for OS X. This is a new SDK release for the Mac platform. Applications created with this SDK can either be installed or be distributed using the Apple Mac App Store.
Some of the features for that SDK are:
- Display web maps that have been authored on www.ArcGIS.com or your own on-premise ArcGIS portals.
- Mashup map services from ArcGIS Online and/or your own on-premise ArcGIS Server to create unique maps.
- Display information about features in a map using popups
- Search for features in a map using spatial or SQL criteria.
- Execute sophisticated geoprocessing tasks and display their results.
- Sketch points, lines and polygons on the map.
- Match addresses to locations (geocode) and locations to addresses (reverse-geocode)
- Perform geometric operations and compute spatial relationships between features.
We invite you to browse the documentation and participate in the forums. You can find documentation for the ArcGIS Runtime SDK for OS X here
Note: the ArcGIS Runtime SDK for OS X supports only OS X Mountain Lion 10.8. We look forward to your feedback. Download the ArcGIS Runtime SDK for OS X on the community beta page.
With the SDK, we are releasing a sample open source application the ArcGIS Runtime Preview, you can download the app here to install on your Mac and the source code here. The application was designed using inspiration from application like GitHub for Mac and Twitter for the Mac platform that include a left hand side menu for easy navigation.
A summary from the related ArcGIS Runtime announcements at the Development Summit this week:
Esri is releasing this week 3 new runtimes SDKs:
To join the 6 existing runtimes available:
- ArcGIS Runtime SDK for iOS
- ArcGIS Runtime SDK for WPF
- ArcGIS Runtime SDK for Windows Phone
- ArcGIS Runtime SDK for Windows Mobile
- ArcGIS Runtime SDK for Java
- ArcGIS Runtime SDK for Android
With the 3 new releases, developers have the choice of 9 native runtime platforms for writing mapping applications. Developers have options to target their native platforms and languages (C#, Objective-C, Java and C++)
Note these 3 SDKs are in Beta, if you find any bugs, we encourage you to use the Community Beta to submit issues.
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