Choosing a Mobile Deployment Platform

—Lloyd Heberlie and Tom Brenneman

This session will begin with a high-level discussion of the common (mapping/spatial) functionality that developers want to have in a mobile application. Next we'll talk about some of the issues when targeting multiple devices and the pros/cons for writing a cross-device application instead of building a native application. We'll cover some of the decisions about using a native application (ArcGIS API for iOS/ArcGIS for Android/Windows Phone 7) versus building a nonnative application.