Questions tagged [multi-platform]
In computing multi-platform (aka cross-platform or platform independent) is an attribute conferred to computer software or computing methods that are implemented and inter-operate on multiple computer platforms.
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How to make a mobile (flutter) app that also works in VR (unity)
I'm interested to build a VR app which will allow the user to interact with some 2d screens in a 3d world.
I would like these same 2d screens to be available on a mobile app, so that the user could ...
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When to Push or Publish
I'm in the process of redesigning our entire process control system (a daunting task, really!), and want to make the right decisions to how each system in the ecosystem communicates with each other.
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Easy way to debug platform-specific issues of non-GUI software on Windows?
I'm maintaining a couple of software repositories (C, C++ essentially) which I want to also run - or let's start with at least build - seamlessly on Windows.
Now, my desktop machine does not have ...
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How to test something on a machine of another type than mine?
I'm working on a small (and very tame) FOSS utility; and I want to test it to make sure that it builds on Mac OSes. But - I don't have a Mac OS I could use for that. I have access to Linux and to ...
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How's .NET multi-platform approach different than Java's back in the days? [closed]
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How is the new .NET approach to being a multi platform framework
better than what Java did long ago?
What are the key differences in the implementation?
What are the advantages and ...
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Multiplatform app - localization
I am developing C++ based multiplatform app. Core is in C++ and GUI layers are in native languages (Swift, Java, C# etc.). How should I handle localization for this? Should I use native solutions for ...
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Multilayer security concept
I'm working on a security concept of a bigger project. It will be done with Spring,but that's actually not relevant right now.
The whole system is a hierarchical tree of computer nodes that run a ...
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Is it possible to call a function or a script with a REST API?
Let us say that I want to create a workout app and a website, the user enters his workout stats and the app display his stats with graphs percentage and such.
This is an example I don't want to ...
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Best approach to avoid duplication of code meant to run on windows/iOS/Android devices?
I am working on a new version of the following system:
A 'main control' service that runs on Windows Server (C#).
Clients on the following systems, that communicate with the above service via Web ...
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What is it exactly that makes programs platform dependent when they're using cross-platform APIs?
I understand that programming languages can either be run in a VM (Java, etc) on every OS that supports the VM natively or can be compiled to machine code (C, etc) for each platform.
What I don't ...
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Python: Control subprocess from calling thread
I am working on a database interface to a MongoDB using Python Eve as an API.
The database stores several documents containing parameters and values needed for some calculations. I wrote a Python ...
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How to ensure feature parity of a product across different platforms
this question looks like How to plan/manage multi-platform (mobile) products but the answers there suggest using abstractions to ensure a common code repo, which is something that we decided not to do....
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Is it a good practice to develop a video game for many platforms at once (using e.g. Unity)? [closed]
Multi-platform development tools like Unity offer us an ability to quickly deploy games to many platforms at once. However, I'm concerned about whether the final product will be any worse compared to ...
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Starting a Windows task from Linux, what are my options? [closed]
We have server that runs data processing tasks, using Python, Django and Celery, on Linux. Once a batch of data comes in, a number of Celery tasks are scheduled and they run, some of them in parallel, ...
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Expanding Jira DB to include multiple target platforms
I am a member on the QA team but tasked with majority of the management of the Jira instance. We have launched our product on one platform, and will be starting to develop it shortly on 2 more ...
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Write Once - Use Many for server return values?
Well, I was wondering how I could do this or how this is done.
Having a server that accepts HTTP Requests and maintains a database for a mobile app, it is supposed to provide data for Android and iOS ...
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Structure project based on platform or design?
I have a medium sized project (~10,000 lines) that runs on Windows and Linux. However it is only specific components of the program that are platform dependent and are located in a folder called ...
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Creating a web app that authenticates users from two different databases
I am in a bit of an awkward programming situation, and it will help me a lot to get your input in this situation.
I am building a web app which expects to authenticate users from another, separate ...
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Cross Platform Compilation of C++ .exe
I have been asked to re-write an old C/C++ project in C++11. The old project is multi-platform, however, in order to deploy the system on other architectures the current process is to log into a ...
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How to plan for multi-platform application development [closed]
In my earlier days of programming, I was using Visual Basic for learning. It taught me many concepts, and I was able to make some cool programs (in my opinion, anyways...). I have expanded my horizon ...
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How can I say that programming language compiles to other languages?
How can I say in english, that programming language can be compiled to other programming languages?
The example can be Haxe. On the website the language is decribed as "Multiplatform":
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Common Lisp Implementations - threading and multiplatform?
I'm learning Common Lisp, mostly as a "mind gym" hobby thing, but I want to end up with a set of skills that would also be usable "in real life", because when you learn a language you also accumulate ...
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Approach for developing software that will need to be ported to multiple mobile platforms in the future
I am currently doing the preliminary design for a new product my company will be pushing out soon. We will start on Android, but then we will need to quickly develop the IPhone, IPad.... and then the ...
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I seem to be missing a few important concepts with PhoneGap
I'm planning on developing an app on multiple platforms and I'm thinking that PhoneGap might be perfect for me. I had been reading that it's one codebase for all platforms but looking at the PhoneGap ...
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Can applications affect power consumption in a substantial way?
Is there anything that can be done for a single general purpose application to affect the power consumption of the device it is running on?
I am not familiar with how optimizations to individual ...
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What is the best technology for a TRULY portable REST client
I develop a suite of productivity tools, for Mac, iOS and Windows. They all communicate with a sync server via a RESTful interface (using Protocol Buffers), but as we add new platforms, we realize the ...
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What should I be looking for when evaluating unit testing libraries and tools?
I'm in the process of choosing new unit testing tools for soon to be started project. There are plenty of them!
The basic requirements I have would be that it can run tests on at least Windows and ...
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Is it better to develop apps using a platform specific technology or web technologies? [closed]
I happened to read an interesting article the other day that talked about building mobile applications using Javascript and HTML5. One interesting point they brought out was how this approach worked ...
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