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 disadvantages ...
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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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