Mobile App Development Toolkit??

Unknown said:

Is it posibile for select users to download  the mobile ~SDK  or do you need to be a BD?

Yes, BDN membership (both Commerical or SELECT) is required.

Unknown said:

Is this using MDL / VC++ 2005 ?

How it can be, if it works on platforms that know nothing about MDL and even C++? So the answer is not.

It's wholly new thing, so probably not many people has tried it yet.

Regards,

  Jan

Unknown said:

Platforms that know nothing about MDL and even C++

Well, Android definitely knows nothing about MDL, but as an operating system it's likely to be written in C.

Microsoft doesn't support Android, nor is it ever likely to, so Viz Studio for Android is probably not on the horizon.  However, you can find out about C/C++ for Android from their website...

There's also C4Droid.

Unknown said:

Not many people have tried it yet

That includes me.  Well, not a single customer has even asked the question!

As Jan mentioned, BDN membership is required. The Mobile App Development Toolkit, including the Android and iOS SDKs, is available upon request. Please go here for more information and to send a request for access.

Thanks!

Ben

Addition to Jon's post about languages: Each mobile platform uses different development language as its primate technology ... and it's never C/C++ (suprisingly :-):

• iOS / iPad: ObjectiveC. Other languages like C/C++ can be used also (as far as I know it was prohibited in the past) and because Apple world is well standardized from hardware point of view, the situation is simple.
• Android: Java is the primary tool ... but be aware it's not the standard Java designed originally by Sun, because Android doesn't use JRE, but Davlik. But with some level of simplification, it's Java ;-) You can also use C/C++ using NDK, but I suppose it's not binary compatible over different CPUs used in Android devices, so you should compile and maintain different installations, which is costly.
• Windows 8 / 8 RT / Phone 8: As expected, it's NET (preferably C#, but) and if you want to use Direct3D, C++ is your tool.

At the same time there are tools there are common to all platfroms, despite of their support is not alwasy the same: Two the most important are HTML5 and JavaScript.

Mobile SDK follows this reality and based on what platform you choose, you will have to use proper development tool.

With regards,

  Jan