Review

ESRI Dev Summit - 2014

Jeff Skahill

Yanlin Ye

Shaunak Vairagare

bit.do/devsummit-2014

Overview

• 10.3 release in Q3
• ArcGIS JavaScript API for Web applications and ArcGIS Runtime for native applications
• Flex and Silverlight will not get future updates
• Chris Wanstrath keynote
• Lots of 3D discussion and coding best practices

New Technologies

• ArcGIS Pro
• Web App Builder
• GeoTrigger
• Beta Community

Improvements

• ArcGIS for Developers (https://developers.arcgis.com/en/)
• Tile caching
• SVG support
• ArcGIS Runtime

ArcGIS Runtime

• For native applications on devices including phones, tablets, laptops, desktops, and embedded.

• Developed in C++ but other language wrappers or SDKs are available, including WPF, iOS, Java, etc.

• Licenses

  • Developer All functions but with developer watermark
  • Basic All online capabilities plus offline map viewing
  • Standard All online and offline capabilities (including offline editing)

• Developing against ArcObjects (including ArcGIS Engine) is not recommended.

Some cool web stuff

• The Angular map directive http://patrickarlt.github.io/dev-summit-talk-angular-js/#/29`
• Image services and Web Development http://video.esri.com/tag/215/wenxue-ju
• Nodejs Webframework designed to work with arcgis https://github.com/DavidSpriggs/Blister
• KOOP https://github.com/Esri/koop
• ESRI GitHub http://esri.github.io/