00:01So I'm going to be talking about the runtime SDKs for iOS and Android.

00:06My name is David Cardella.

00:08I work in Redlands, at Esri in Redlands, and I'm our mobile product manager.

00:15So hopefully by the end of this hour, what we're going to have a good understanding of is...

00:22...what are these runtime SDKs, and why is that word runtime in there?

00:27Because I know that some people are asking, Oh, are these new SDKs?

00:32No, they're not new SDKs, these are the same iOS and Android SDKs we've always had...

00:39...but they are taking on runtime-like capabilities in terms of the runtime capabilities...

00:46...that you may have heard of in the new WPF and Java SDKs.

00:52So we'll get into that.

00:54Who are these SDKs for? We'll talk about that as well.

00:57What can you build with the APIs?

01:01We'll talk about deployment options for these applications...

01:05...and I'll tell you what we do in development at Esri...

01:09...for both deploying apps to the App Store but also deploying apps within our enterprise as well.

01:17And then we'll talk about how we get started.

01:23Who would consider themselves an Android or an iOS developer?

01:30Hands? A couple.

01:32It's actually good news.

01:35Because what this session is not about is diving deep into code.

01:40As a matter of fact, I'm not going to show you one line of code throughout the whole session.

01:44So for those of you who didn't raise your hand, which is actually most of you, don't run away.

01:50You're not going to get lost in this session; it's actually going to be a good overview of what you can do.

01:55And if you work closely with other developers in your company...

01:58...you're going to be able to take this information back to them.

02:02So it's going to be a very understandable session whether you're a developer or a nondeveloper.

02:09Okay, so when we talk about ArcGIS, we talk about it as a complete system.

02:13And so you may have your data locally within your organization...

02:18...and you access that data using some of the desktop tools like ArcMap, ArcCatalog, et cetera.

02:26Your data could be spread throughout the enterprise.

02:29These could be services that are published within your intranet.

02:33Or, you could have data that's exposed outside of your DMZ to the cloud.

02:39Regardless of how you have your data, you are able to do things with this data...

02:43...create, discover it, analyze it, use it, edit with it.

02:49And you're able to do this through various windows into the system.

02:52One of those windows is the desktop and the desktop applications that go along with that.

02:58The other window is the web and the viewers that we provide...

03:02...or perhaps a custom application built with the web APIs.

03:06And the third way is through mobile, mobile devices.

03:10Typically we think of mobile devices as these handheld devices...

03:13...whether it's a ruggedized handheld device or a smartphone.

03:17But mobile devices can also include laptops that are embedded within a vehicle...

03:22...or that you carry out to the field.

03:26So we can categorize these solutions or these platforms really into two different categories.

03:35We've got our ruggedized handheld or ruggedized device category, which includes both the handheld...

03:40...we see here we've got a picture of a Trimble Juno--or a ruggedized laptop.

03:46And then we've got, on the other side, our smartphone and tablet solutions and SDKs...

03:52...which include SDKs for iOS, Windows Phone, and Android.

04:00So when we talk about runtime, when we talk about these different platforms...

04:06...these different platforms each have an SDK.

04:10This SDK is available to you guys, it's more than just an API.

04:15Its samples, it's IDE integration.

04:19So it is really a full SDK rather than just downloading the API.

04:24And so there are runtime SDKs that span many different platforms.

04:29Some of them are very familiar to us in terms of the mobile world...

04:32...and some of them we may not think are mobile; however, they can be...

04:36...like the Java, like the WPF, for example.

04:41So when we talk about runtime SDKs, we're talking about SDKs that share a common framework...

04:47...a common functionality among them.

04:52So today we're going to be talking about the iOS and the Android SDK.

04:55Now, I believe the description tells that for the first half of this session I'm going to talk about iOS...

05:05...and then the second half of this section I'm going to talk about Android.

05:08I'm going to talk about both of them at the same time as we go along...

05:12...and where there are differences, I'll be very specific to point that out.

05:18Okay, so these SDKs are, of course, powerful.

05:22You've got the ability to perform some advanced analysis.

05:26They are native APIs.

05:28That means in iOS you are programming with Objective-C...

05:32...and on Android you're programming with Java.

05:39They have similar object models.

05:41What does that mean?

05:42Well, a map control or a map object in Objective-C is the same as a map object in Java.

05:53Layers that you add to that map object is the same as it is in Java and Objective-C.

06:00So a map is a map is a map, a layer is a layer is a layer.

06:04So from a higher level, they have very similar object models.

06:08Now, you dive down deep into the code, you've got delegates on Objective-C...

06:14...you've got other notification mechanisms that are different based on the platform that you're working with.

06:20But from a high level, the object models are the same.

06:23So for those of you...how many out there anticipate having to build...

06:27...whether it's you or someone else in your office, having to build a native application for multiple platforms?

06:35Okay. So if you have to do that for multiple platforms...

06:40...having similar object models at that high level is actually very advantageous.

06:46So typically, especially in smaller companies, you have one or two developers...

06:50...that do the development for both iOS as well as Android.

06:53And having that knowledge of having the similar object models at a higher level is actually very beneficial.

07:01Communication is REST-based.

07:03What does that mean?

07:04Well, you've got your content that's served out through ArcGIS Server or published.

07:08That could be on-premise, it could be in the cloud; it could be within your DMZ or outside your DMZ.

07:15And the SDKs or the APIs communicate with your data over a REST endpoint.

07:22So while you may be writing Objective-C code or Java code, you're actually communicating via REST.

07:31And so some of the advantages of these SDKs...

07:33...is that it's very easy for you to access your own authoritative data.

07:40So we've got basemaps up on ArcGIS.com that are good basemaps.

07:47However, I know many of you in this room have your own basemap data...

07:50...your own operational data, that's more authoritative that what we have online.

07:56You work with your area of interest, you work with your data on a daily basis...

08:01...and so your data is more authoritative.

08:03You want to use you data. The SDKs give you access to your own data.

08:07It also allows you to perform advanced analysis.

08:10This could be some advanced geoprocessing calculations, which I'll show you some examples of.

08:17It could be measurement, something a little bit more simpler.

08:20The SDKs allow you or your users that you build these applications for to collect or edit data.

08:27Now, they may not know they're doing that.

08:29For example, you may be building an application that is a 311 application for citizens...

08:34...or communities to download and report on graffiti or potholes within your community.

08:41Now, when someone uses that application and they report a problem, they're actually creating data, right?

08:48They're sending you back data that gets created.

08:50They don't think of it that way, but that's what they're doing and that's what the SDK allows you to do.

08:55Now, the SDK allows you to either build your own mobile workflow...

09:00...your own focused, customized application.

09:03Or, if you already have a mobile application that needs mapping...

09:08...that needs some type of GIS analysis...

09:10...you can use the SDKs to build that functionality within an existing application.

09:17So that's one of the advantages of these native SDKs.

09:21Now, what is not possible is, a lot of folks ask us...

09:27...Well, I see you've got an ArcGIS app that's available from the store.

09:30I've downloaded it, I've used it. Some of the stuff is interesting.

09:33I'd like to use that, but I'd like to extend that application and add functionality x-y-z.

09:41Right now, the Objective-C and the Android platform do not allow for building add-ins...

09:47...or plug-ins to existing applications.

09:51Existing applications...that you don't have the source code for.

09:54Now of course, as I just mentioned, if you have an existing application that you've built...

09:59...of course, you can use these native SDKs and build in mapping.

10:02But if you've downloaded an application from the store that you have not developed yourself...

10:06...there is no mechanism by which you can build add-ins.

10:15So who is it for? Well, the SDKs are for developers.

10:18And they're for developers within the GIS world.

10:22So we've got a lot of developers who were trained in GIS first...

10:28...and acquired development skills over a number of years.

10:33We've also got GIS developers who were developers by trade...

10:38...got involved within a company who had a GIS department...

10:41...and built up their GIS knowledge that way.

10:45We've also got several hundred partners that are using the SDKs and have access to the SDKs...

10:51...to build custom solutions and custom workflows for their customers.

10:57And the SDKs are for the developer community as a whole...startups.

11:04Anyone developing applications that need a mapping component.

11:10Could be a student who builds applications as a hobby.

11:13It could be a startup company staring up in their garage, for example.

11:20So these SDKs are for them, too. It's not just for the GIS community.

11:28Okay, so what I thought I'd do was talk about what the SDKs can do for a little bit...

11:35...and then we can take a look at some examples of custom applications.

11:40Some of them in the App Store now, some of them built by our development team to be used as samples.

11:49So we support many different types of map layers.

11:52We support basemaps, otherwise known as tiled layers.

11:57We support basemaps served out through ArcGIS Server.

12:01It could be Bing, OpenStreetMap.

12:04Word of note, remember how I told you how I would explain any differences between iOS and Android?

12:10With the currently released Android SDK, we don't support OSM right now...OpenStreetMap.

12:16We will in the next version, but not now.

12:20We also support dynamic layers or your authoritative layers, your business layers.

12:25For a public works department it could be utilities, it could be water mains, et cetera.

12:31And we support a graphics layer.

12:34Graphics layers like a pop-up that comes up...

12:39...or allowing the user to draw on the map...either editing or measuring.

12:45And we support feature layers.

12:47Feature layers are new at 10.0, so they've been around for a year or two...year and a half.

12:56And these editable feature layers are basically services that can be edited through a REST endpoint.

13:03We support those.

13:05Yes, sir?

13:06[Inaudible audience question or response]

13:08No. And so, the question was, Do you support Tracking Server? No, we don't.

13:14Now, when I say we don't support Tracking Server...

13:18...it means we haven't built an API around the REST endpoint for the Tracking Server service.

13:24That is something we're looking at doing, but we've just had very informal conversations about it.

13:31So it's not on our 2012 road map right now.

13:34However, there's nothing stopping you or your developer from sending and receiving raw REST requests.

13:43Now, of course, it's outside of our native API, but because the Tracking Server service is REST-based, you can still do that.

13:51Little bit more work. It's more handy if we've wrapped it for you, understood, so...

13:59Yeah, if there's any questions, just let's keep this an open discussion.

14:02Just, you know, yell. And we also support web maps. What are these web maps?

14:10Web maps were talked about a lot at the Plenary Session, okay?

14:13Web maps are a way in which we can author data and mashup data together...

14:19...like basemaps, like operational layers. But also author in intelligence, like editing.

14:26What's the user going to see when you click on a pop-up?

14:29So you may be asking yourselves, Well, okay, you support web maps...

14:32...but I'm just going to develop an application that hits our services directly.

14:37Not hits a web map that then hits our services. So what's the advantage of using a web map?

14:42Well, one of the big advantages of using a web map is that you or someone who's not a developer in your company...

14:50...can change the user experience on your custom application simply by editing a web map.

14:57For example, let's say you have a custom application that goes out...

15:02...and opens a web map much like our ArcGIS app.

15:05In that web map you've authored in pop-up functionality...

15:08...that brings to the user attributes...three attributes, let's say.

15:15That user can use your application, tap on the map, and get those three attributes.

15:20But you want to show more to the user. You want to show graphs.

15:23You want to link out to websites.

15:25You want to show more dynamic content, perhaps link a movie there.

15:31What you can do is, you can edit that web map and author in more pop-up functionality...

15:38...that becomes exposed and alive within your application.

15:43So you didn't have to crack open the code again, you didn't have to deliver it via an enterprise account...

15:48...or resubmit it to app store or market; in the case of Apple, wait a week before they either reject or accept it.

15:55Okay, so that's one of the big advantages of working with web maps.

16:02So, a question that I get all the time is offline.

16:06I have to go offline, I have to build applications that allow my customers or my users of the application...

16:12...to work in a totally disconnected state, edit data, modify data, add new features...

16:18...and then when we're connected, sync back up with the server.

16:23So we are working on that. That is on the development road map for 2012.

16:29And we're getting there. What do I mean by that?

16:34The SDKs right now support offline storage and offline use of caches. That's the basemaps.

16:43So in the case of iOS, we support caches that you create using ArcMap Desktop.

16:50We also support tiled packages. Tiled packages are a new way of packaging up basemaps at 10.1.

16:59So at 10.1 you can create a tile package, and that tile package can be used in a custom iOS application...

17:05...it can be used in the new WPF runtime, and it can be used in the new WPF Java as well.

17:13So right now, iOS SDK supports these tile packages. On the Android side of things, we do support caches.

17:21Again, these are the same caches that you can create through ArcMap.

17:25Very soon, we are going to support tile packages as well.

17:29Now, you may be saying, Oh, that's great. You support offline basemaps.

17:33But I can't get my operational data offline, you're not telling me that I can edit and post back.

17:40And the answer is that no, not right now. It's coming though.

17:46We do have a sample, and I'll show it to you later today.

17:49We do have a sample on the iOS resource center that does take both basemaps and operational layers...

17:56...allow you to go offline, edit your operational layers...

18:01...and then sync that data back up with your enterprise GIS.

18:07Now, the thing about that sample is that it uses, it stores these features in memory, right?

18:12It doesn't persist them on the device itself.

18:16More details on that when we look at it.

18:20We also have this concept of graphics.

18:22So graphics can be arbitrary objects; they can be point/line/polygon/text...

18:27...they can be geometry and symbols, they can be attributes...

18:31...and we use this graphics layer extensively throughout the ArcGIS application.

18:38We use it when someone is measuring and they're sketching on the device.

18:43So that could be measuring, it could be editing...We use it for our callouts.

18:47The user taps on a feature, they want to see media, they want to see attributes...

18:53...we put that on a graphics layer.

19:00And of course, analysis. So some of the standard things...

19:04...query, of course geocoding, reverse geocoding. Both of the SDKs have a... Yes, sir?

19:13[Inaudible audience question or response]

19:16Good question.

19:17Support KML, and I'm going add in WMS on top of that.

19:21Right now the SDKs do not support that.

19:25It is coming, and it's coming soon. Look for it this summer.

19:32Both of the SDKs have a native or a local geometry engine.

19:36What does that mean?

19:37That means a lot of geometric analysis, a lot of measuring...

19:43...a lot of overlays (point and poly, edge-type processing)...

19:51...unions, buffers, et cetera, are done locally on the device using the device's...

19:58...using the hardware of the device itself.

20:01So you could go back to a geometry service and process this, or you can do it locally on the device.

20:06And since these devices are getting so powerful, even the phones are getting quad cores now...

20:11...that's actually a very nice feature for your custom applications.

20:15Of course we support geoprocessing tasks.

20:18These geoprocessing tasks can be as complicated or as simple as you like.

20:22These are the same tasks that you author in Desktop, serve out through Server.

20:27Routing...routing is highlighted because routing is supported in iOS natively through the SDK.

20:35In Android it's supported, but it's supported through a geoprocessing task.

20:41We are bringing that functionality in the next release or two.

20:44We are bringing that functionality directly to the SDK as well.

20:53[Inaudible audience question or response]

20:55Sorry?

20:56When would that be?

20:57Routing?

20:58Yes.

20:59Yeah, in the summer time frame.

21:03Just a shameless plug, I am giving a road ahead session tomorrow morning at 8-30.

21:09Little early...maybe I'll see some of you.

21:10You might be wearing the same clothing as yesterday, I don't know, it is an early session.

21:15But if you're interested in our 2012 road map on mobile on all the platforms...

21:20...please come, and come to the 8-30 session.

21:23Of course the SDKs allow you to edit or collect data, as well.

21:28And all this is done against a feature service.

21:30Right now, the SDKs support a connected editing environment.

21:36We also support attachments...one to many.

21:39Many attachments to one feature.

21:41These attachments can be photos, they can be PDF documents...

21:46...they can be videos taken with the device, et cetera.

21:53Okay. So let's take a look at some of these.

21:59Let's go to the iPad. Let's not go to the iPad. Okay, let's go to the iPad.

22:18I've got here an application that was built using the iOS SDK.

22:26And basically it allows first responders to get some information on an accident, a spill of some kind.

22:34So I'm just going to zoom into an area that we're going to work with today.

22:39So I see here that I've got my road network, so I'm going to turn on Aerial CORRECT.

22:45And what I'm going to do is, I'm just going to interact with the map...

22:49So...oops. Let's undo that.

22:54I'm just going to interact with the map. You can't see what my fingers are doing, so I'm going to describe it.

23:00And I'm just going to interact and denote an area of a spill.

23:04At any point I can just tap and hold and get some more fine-grained control.

23:09Some of the other inputs are, I can choose the type of spill; in this case, chlorine.

23:15I've got wind speed here that I can adjust.

23:18And of course, my compass here shows me the direction in which this wind speed is going.

23:24So what I'm going to do is, I'm going to analyze the spill.

23:28So what's happening? Well, this application is going out, and it's calling a GP service.

23:34And it's passing in those inputs that I sent it.

23:37And this GP service is determining, based on the type of material...

23:43...the wind, all the inputs that I put in, an evacuation area.

23:48And then it's taking the result of that evacuation area...

23:52...and it's using that in a selection against some demographic data.

23:56So I see here that I've got some demographic data that's important to me in the rescue operation.

24:01Very young and very old may need some extra help evacuating that area.

24:06So that was all done using a geoprocessing task.

24:12Now, the second part of this problem is that I'd like to figure out where I can evacuate these folks to.

24:20So I have some schools here.

24:23Schools are often used in these types of evacuations...

24:26...and so in order for me to pick some good candidates for this, I can simply tap on it.

24:34We see here in this custom callout that I actually have another map control that I can interact with.

24:40Pinch zoom, double tap...it's the same map control as the big one in this application that I've been using.

24:47So I see here that we've got a nice, big field in which we can do some preliminary processing...

24:52...on these evacuees before we get them in here.

24:54I can also run a service area geoprocessing to determine if, based on a particular drive time...

25:03...if this evacuation location is serviceable at all to my affected area. And I see that it is.

25:13So we'll go ahead and we'll select this as a potential evacuation location.

25:18We'll choose this one too, and we'll choose this one.

25:23Hopefully not too far downwind from the accident.

25:28Now what we'll do is, we will determine of the people that live in this area...

25:34...where they should be allocated.

25:36And so this is going out and it's calling another geoprocessing service...

25:40...and that geoprocessing service just happens to be called location allocation.

25:45So it's going out, it's calling that...Now there's some computation going on here...

25:49...so it's going to take a few seconds.

25:51But these GP services are the same GP services that you author in Desktop...

25:56...that you serve out through Server, and that you can now consume within these SDKs.

26:03So when the response comes back, we should see paths in three different colors...

26:12...denoting where these folks should be allocated in terms of their evacuation location.

26:20So we see here we're getting back the GP results, and we've got our result.

26:27Okay, so that was an example, custom application uses at least three or four GP services that I just showed you.

26:39Great, what else do we have?

26:42Let's go to...let me show you a couple applications that are actually in the app store.

26:50Now, because I don't have an ELMO, which I thought would be here...

26:55...I'm using this very crude USB camera.

26:59James, can you see that back there?

27:02I see there's a picture up there. What am I looking at?

27:05Oh, how many e-mails do I have?

27:06[Inaudible audience question or response]

27:07There you go! All from you, I'm sure.

27:10Anyways, so this camera is not as good as the ELMOs, but bear with me.

27:16So I've got a few examples of applications. Here's one called Where To SG?

27:21This is an application built by the...initially the Singapore government in conjunction with Esri Singapore.

27:31And who it's targeting is both tourists as well as citizens of Singapore...

27:36...where they can determine what is around them.

27:40Now, since we're not in Singapore, obviously I'm not going to use the current location.

27:45But what I am going to do is, I'm just going to zoom in here a little bit.

27:51I'm doing everything on 3G because I've noticed that the wireless is a little bit sketchy.

27:57So that's fine, and we will go ahead and select an area.

28:04So obviously I would use the GP of the device.

28:08But we can determine different...we can determine what's close here.

28:12So that might be a little small at the back, but we've got gas stations, supermarkets...

28:18...we've even got 24-hour clinics and dialysis, which, I don't know...

28:25...I guess there's a lot of kidney problems there.

28:27They have dialysis centers. We'll go ahead and we'll choose the gas stations.

28:31So what this is doing now, it's just finding all the gas stations close to me, it lists them here...

28:36...I can plot them all on the map, I can go to them individually, I can get directions to it.

28:42So that's an application, Where To SG?

28:46It's in the app store.

28:47And at last count, they had mentioned that they had about 150-160 downloads...

28:50...so that's a fairly popular one.

28:54Crime Map, this was put out by the Omega Group.

29:00Crime Map, they partner up with a lot of the police authorities...

29:05...a lot of authorities throughout the states.

29:08This happens to be a Redlands crime map.

29:12I don't know how many of you have been to Redlands. Redlands is not a big place.

29:17Yeah, some of you have been there. There's probably 60,000-70,000 people there.

29:22This looks like a lot of crime, which actually surprised me. So we've got various different types of crime.

29:29Looks like this mask here is probably burglary, which it is, I can go in and I can get some information on it.

29:38Spray can, looks like graffiti, vandalism. Not a lot of information...Oh, yeah.

29:43There you go. Some information there.

29:45So again, crime mapping in the app store. Good use of the SDK.

29:52Let me go over to my Android device here.

30:04Here's an application that the city of Honolulu put together...

30:08...that identifies areas of evacuation zones once a tsunami hits.

30:14So ideally, of course, you would use your current location.

30:21But you can also enter in an address.

30:32I'm sure you guys are all loving me fat-finger this thing.

30:39Do some geocoding...This particular location happens to be in an area of evacuation.

30:45So this data changes, obviously, based on events, based on the time of year, and it's not just tsunamis.

30:51It's really any type of natural disaster.

30:55So that's in the Google market right now.

31:02We've got our friends from CitySourced.

31:08They have built native applications on iOS, Android, and Windows Phone that allow you to submit...

31:19...it's a 311 application, so it allows you to submit various reports or various problems...

31:25...that are going on in your community...vandalism, potholes, streetlights.

31:30So I can either choose, in this case, a photo; I can attach a video.

31:35I'll just choose one from my camera roll.

31:38I can either use my current location, enter address, or just simply tap on the map...

31:44...select a location, and then I have to put in a whole bunch of information, a description...

31:50If I want to get contacted when this particular issue is resolved, there is also a way for that to happen as well.

32:00There is one interesting application I want to show you that does demonstrate offline capabilities.

32:08So, back to the iPad. Okay. I guess I'm not on the iPad.

32:31You should have brought your Apple TV and then you could have...

32:35So true, have you tried that?

32:36[Inaudible audience question or response]

32:37Yeah, it's great.

32:40Yeah, for those of you who don't know, if you download iOS 5 and you've got Apple TV...

32:48...you can stream whatever you're doing on your iPhone or your iPad right to the TV.

32:52Which could be a good or bad thing, I don't know.

32:57Come on...Alright, we're going to use the USB camera.

33:26Okay. That's actually dark. This will work. It worked before. Okay, good.

33:45I've got an application, it's an inspection application.

33:48And we've got some hi-res data here of an oil field.

33:52And a field worker can go out to the field and inspect their oil tanks.

33:59Well, out in the field there's going to be little or no connectivity.

34:02So before that person goes out into the field...

34:06...they've got some sticky notes here to remind them of what they're supposed to do.

34:10So before digital or mobile GIS, and actually, what's happening right now is that...

34:15...we've got energy companies, energy field workers...

34:18...literally taking a clipboard out to the field to do their asset management.

34:24So we built this application, it's a digital clipboard, to try and make them feel a little bit more at home.

34:29So I'm going to go ahead and download my data. Now that happened pretty fast.

34:33So you're probably saying, Okay, I call a little funny business on this one, right?

34:41I will tell you that that hi-res basemap imagery data is already local on the device.

34:47So what did we download?

34:48Well, we downloaded the tank data which is denoted by our green symbology.

34:56We also downloaded an inspection layer which is denoted by the yellow stickies. Alright?

35:02So, when we go out to the field, let's go ahead and go into Airplane mode.

35:10We've got no Wi-Fi, we've got no 3G access. The application even tells us that we're offline.

35:16We still have full control of all of our data.

35:19It's all local on the device, and when we get out to the field, if I just tap on this tank here...

35:28...I can get some information about the tank.

35:30But more importantly, I can bring up a form...

35:33...a digital form that I can use to assess this asset.

35:36And so I'll specify a tank that is in good shape, that looks okay.

35:43We can even attach a photo. Of course, I'd probably take a photo out there.

35:47We'll choose an existing one that represents the asset in which we are taking, and we'll just pin it to our form.

35:56And I'm going to hit the check box in the lower right-hand corner.

36:01So what have we just done? Well, we've inspected this asset.

36:04The inspection is still local to the device, right?

36:09It still hasn't been posted back to the enterprise GIS.

36:12So what we can do is, once we do have connectivity...

36:25...I'm back to the application, we see in the upper left-hand corner it says we've got one inspection to sync.

36:32I can curl up the map and I can hit the Synchronize My Inspection sticky there, and we're good to go.

36:39So what happened there?

36:41Well, essentially, we created a service and...There's a few services going on here.

36:47There's a service that represents the hi-res imagery...

36:51...there's a services that represents the tanks, and there's an editable service that represents our inspections.

36:57And so we downloaded all of that to the device.

37:00I showed you just the two operational layers. But all of the data was on the device.

37:05We edited the inspection layer offline, saved it on the device, and then synced it back up.

37:13That's a sample that's there for you right now. This sample uses or stores those features in memory.

37:21So there's pitfalls with that.

37:23If you've got a lot of operational data, you're doing a lot of editing, you could run out of memory...

37:27...fairly quickly depending on how much data you're actually synchronizing or bringing down.

37:33So a more long-term solution is in our 2012 road map. It's to persist these features on the device.

37:41Persist them on the device. It scales a lot better.

37:45We're going to be building a synchronization mechanism both through the SDK...

37:49...as well as through the out-of-the-box applications as well.

37:57Any questions so far? Yes, sir?

38:03[Inaudible audience question or response]

38:21Yeah, so the first is security. Let's say the device is lost. The SDK supports secure services.

38:28And so token-based, https, as well as token-based...it's all supported.

38:35But you should also secure your...at least, put some deterrent security on your devices, anyways.

38:42Passcode-lock, if your device is issued by your organization, a lot of IT departments...

38:49...the remote administration of these devices is becoming a lot easier now.

38:54You can wipe devices remotely. I think you were getting at the service level, which is supported.

39:00And your second question, sorry. What was that?

39:03The battery life?

39:04Yeah, so battery life is an issue on these devices, right?

39:08How many have an iPad 1 and 2? How many...yeah.

39:11So you've noticed a huge difference I'm sure between battery life on 1 and 2.

39:15One lasts probably double, depending on what you're doing with it, double the time.

39:20Battery life is an issue, and I'll tell you what eats battery up a lot...

39:24...is constant network connection, and pinging, and chatty applications.

39:29Being able to go offline will save your battery. There are also these little battery packs.

39:34James has got one, we were just looking at it before...

39:37...where you charge them up beforehand and then you plug them in.

39:40I expect because these devices, both smartphones and tablets, are getting integrated into organizations...

39:46...at such a rapid rate, that the battery life on these things is going to get better.

39:52[Inaudible audience question or response]

39:55Yeah, great point. So another thing is that you can buy what they're calling a ruggedized case.

40:03It's not the same thing as a ruggedized handheld, but it's a ruggedized case...

40:07...that has both a battery...extra battery life in it.

40:10And James, I've even seen them with a higher-end GPS chip.

40:14Oh, really?

40:15Yeah. So you know, on the iPad you're getting what, five-meter level of air?

40:20Magellan made a case for the 3GS.

40:23I don't have their 4. For the 3GS, that was totally waterproof...

40:28...it floated, but it was also waterproof if it got submerged.

40:31It had the extra battery life as well as a GPS chip that had a much higher accuracy.

40:37[Inaudible audience question or response]

40:48Yes. Excellent point.

41:00So James just pointed out a Catch-22, right?

41:03So I just said chatty applications and when you have network connection on all the time, it uses more battery.

41:10So when you turn network connection off, you're eliminating some of the points...

41:14...in which the device uses to triangulate itself (i.e., Wi-Fi hot spots).

41:19So yeah, you may be getting longer battery life...

41:21...but you're certainly not getting the accuracy that you did before.

41:25That's a great point.

41:27Now the 4S, the iPhone 4S does use a lot of the Russian satellites...

41:33...the GLONASS satellites, which gives it more accuracy than before.

41:41But still, it still hasn't approached the accuracy of these ruggedized devices.

41:46These explorers, these Junos, these Leica devices, things like that.

41:54Yeah, that's a good point. I guess I should get you back over to the slides. Okay, deployment.

42:12How many folks have developed an application...

42:14...or at least had your developers develop an application, and you've gone through deployment hell?

42:19Whether it's to an app store or enterprise?

42:23So, really, when deciding what deployment mechanism is good for you...

42:28...you really have to ask yourself, Who is the target audience for your application?

42:33Is it for consumers? Is it going to be widely distributed?

42:37Or, is it for your enterprise or an app that you're building for your customer...

42:42...and it's going to remain within the enterprise?

42:44Well, if it's for external consumption, public consumption...

42:47...you've got to go through...at least on iOS, you have to go through the App Store.

42:53Now, there are certain pitfalls with that, of course.

42:56You've got an approval time that...we just posted a conference app, and it took five business days...

43:05...from the time we submitted it to the time I got notified that it was in review...

43:12...and then it took probably 12 hours after that to get approved.

43:16So, it got approved, that's great. But they can get rejected.

43:20And we've all heard these nightmare stories, especially early on.

43:24A year or so ago, a year and a half ago, where Apple just rejects these applications...

43:28...sometimes with very little or no explanation.

43:32So Apple has gotten a lot better at giving more detailed explanations should applications be rejected.

43:41On the other side, we've got the Google market.

43:45The Google market is a lot more open. And there's pros and cons to that.

43:51So, you can submit your application, you can get a $25.00 account from Google...

43:56...you submit your application, and it's almost instantaneous.

44:01Your application's probably ready for download in an hour or 30 minutes depending on network traffic.

44:06So there's no one who has to approve your application, it's instantaneous.

44:11The other advantage you have of getting your Android apps out to the public is...

44:16...you can create your own Android market.

44:19Call it Company A-B-C and promote it.

44:22You can put your application on other Android markets like Amazon, for example.

44:29A lot more open, no approval process. Now, that comes at a cost, right?

44:34I don't know if you guys heard the story with Netflix.

44:37So Netflix had an Android application, they put it up into the store, it was there probably for a number of hours...

44:44...maybe half a day, 12 hours, and they realized there were some serious problems with it.

44:48Well, it was up there long enough for someone to see what it looked like.

44:54And when it got brought down, another application took its place, not at the same URL...

44:59...and if you read the fine print it probably wasn't from Netflix, Inc....

45:04...but someone mimicked themselves being from the company, put the app back up...

45:09...and it was collecting information.

45:12That would not have happened in the App Store model.

45:15So there are pros and cons.

45:16It's more open, but there's a danger involved with that.

45:20I even talk to a lot of folks who are now putting virus protection on their Android phones and tablets.

45:27That's how pervasive it's gotten.

45:31Okay, so that's the App Store.

45:34The other option you have is for internal deployment in both models.

45:39So we see here that I've got icons to represent the different types.

45:43On iOS you have the ability to build your binary...

45:47...and have an install through iTunes.

45:51What does that mean?

45:52It doesn't mean the App Store, it means you load the application into your iTunes application...

45:58...running on your laptop or desktop, and then you take a physical wire and you sync that application...

46:04...up to your iOS device, much like you sync songs up or photos.

46:10Awkward deployment. Very awkward deployment.

46:14The other option you do have is to deploy your applications through an internal website.

46:22Apple has two developer programs.

46:26One is a standard program in which you use to only go to the App Store...

46:30...and to do some ad hoc installs for beta testing, that's the standard program.

46:35The other program is the enterprise program.

46:38And the enterprise program allows unlimited installs to any devices...

46:44...that your organization has issued...unlimited.

46:48And it's with this enterprise program that you can install these applications through your internal website.

46:55I'll show an example of it in a moment.

46:57On the Android side of things, it's actually quite easy.

47:02You can take your APK file, your binary file, and you can put it up in an internal website...

47:07...you can e-mail it to someone and they can install it.

47:10You've got a lot of options when it comes to that.

47:14Okay, let's quickly take a look...back to the iPhone.

47:28I'm hoping you guys can see in the upper status bar right beside 3G, I've got VPN enabled.

47:36So what I've done is I've downloaded an application called Juno's Pulse.

47:41It's free in the App Store. And I've signed in via VPN to my internal network.

47:49And what we've done is that when we have daily builds of our ArcGIS application...

47:56...and these daily builds need to be tested on a daily basis.

48:00And so rather than go through the clunky and awkward install process of going through iTunes...

48:05...we've hosted this APK on an internal website.

48:12And so I've bookmarked it.

48:15Now, this isn't a website that's going to win any awards for design or anything like that.

48:21It's a very simple website, that I'm hoping I'm still on VPN for...And all it's got is one button.

48:33And that button says, Install ArcGIS. I'm hoping this will work.

48:56I went to another internal site we have.

48:59All of our samples that we ship with the product...

49:01...we also make available internally through this website.

49:04So again, it's not going to win any design awards.

49:07All they are, are a number of buttons; I click on one of the buttons...

49:11...and I'm asked if I want to install the app. And I click Install.

49:17Much easier, much cleaner way of distributing applications, especially on iOS.

49:24With our daily build, we actually have a very similar website...

49:28...it's just got one-button install ArcGIS.

49:32So while the delivery mechanism for Android is actually much cleaner and much easier...

49:40...iOS does provide an enterprise distribution where, if it's set up properly on the back end...

49:46...the user experience in terms of accessing and installing is the same as it is on Android.

50:01Okay, how do we get started?

50:05I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this, because as I said when we started out...

50:10...I am the only person in between you and the social.

50:15So how do you get started? Very simple. Resources.arcgis.com.

50:20We've got a resource center for each of the mobile platforms.

50:24That includes iOS, it includes Android. You can download the SDKs...

50:29...from either one of those sites, install them, they integrate with the IDE.

50:35On the Android side, we deliver the technology via an Eclipse plug-in.

50:39So the only IDE we support is the Eclipse plug-in.

50:44You install it, the samples get integrated. The technical help gets integrated with the IDE.

50:50Same on iOS.

50:52Not the samples, but we integrate with the Xcode IDE...

50:56...that includes help as well as code completion, all that stuff.

51:03Now, we also have online resources.

51:06Some community resources like forums, code galleries, things like that.

51:10We also provide the latest and greatest help, both API help as well as conceptual help.

51:18So we do get a lot of questions.

51:20Hey, can I develop a native iOS application on a Windows machine?

51:28And, there's two ways to answer this...yes and no. The real answer is no.

51:34If you are going to use a native Objective-C API, you need to develop on an Intel-based Mac.

51:42You need that. Now, people say, Oh, but wait.

51:45I've downloaded...I've got model touch.

51:48It integrates very well with Visual Studio, and it compiles down to native Objective-C...

51:54...same with the latest version of Flash Builder, oh yeah, it's great.

51:58Inevitably, you need to edit the Objective-C code.

52:02It doesn't get translated and converted perfectly.

52:07So inevitably you need to intercede in that process.

52:11So for true native development, you do need an Intel-based Mac.

52:16A device...I don't even recommend a device for development.

52:21It's a requirement.

52:22When you're developing user interface and user experience...

52:25...it's one thing to use the emulator and mouse to click on buttons, a mouse that's maybe two pixels wide...

52:34...versus actually trying it on the device where your finger is 30-35 pixels wide.

52:39And if your finger is like mine, it's probably 45.

52:43So there is no substitute for actually going through the user experience...

52:49...and evaluating user interface design except on a physical device.

52:58Oh, and I mentioned the integration with Xcode.

53:01On the Android side of things, I mentioned that we delivered an Eclipse plug-in.

53:06You can develop on a Mac, you can develop on Windows.

53:09Just download the Eclipse IDE.

53:12Of course, you'll need the JDK, the Java Development Kit.

53:15You will need Google's SDK.

53:20Once you have that, our plug-in works with these technologies...

53:23...you'll be able to develop your GIS and mapping applications.

53:26Now, I will say this, when you go ahead and download the Java SDK...

53:33...you're going to say, and you're going to probably e-mail me, or you're going to post something...

53:37...on the forums that says, Wait a minute, am I doing something wrong?

53:40I can't use the emulator.

53:43You're not doing anything wrong.

53:48Did that happen? Kinda, sorta? Yeah. You're not doing anything wrong. It's not you, it's me.

53:55The emulator doesn't support open GO. Open GO SE2.

54:03We require, and the SDK uses, Open GO for rendering, for performance of rendering, for a lot of good things.

54:12Now, Google tells us that they are going to support it in their emulator.

54:16But until they do, the only way to test out your apps in development is to debug on the device, not the emulator.

54:23So you're not doing anything wrong, don't worry.

54:26At least not that.

54:27At least not that. There's plenty of other pitfalls, yeah. We can talk after.

54:34Alright, so just in conclusion and in general, getting started is actually quite simple.

54:42Of course, you've got some technology you've got to download including our SDK.

54:46You go ahead and develop, then you make that decision...

54:49...whether it's going to the App Store, or market, or whether it's an internal app.

54:54And of course, the deployment or the installation happens.

55:00There are some attribution that we require. Pretty small stuff, actually.

55:05Something in the about box, or your credit of your application...

55:07...that says hey, you know, the mapping components are provided by the SDK by the API.

55:14If you are using our basemaps that we host online, we do require use of the logo in the lower left.

55:23Many of you are going to use your own authoritative content...

55:26...your own authoritative basemaps, you don't need the logo.

55:31And then I've got a couple of...

55:33...just a couple of slides for resources, but don't go furiously writing this down.

55:38I think the slides are going to be made available.

55:40But basically, the Apple iPhone developer center is your friend.

55:46One of the very important documents on there is the HIG, the Human Interface Guidelines.

55:51It's actually a very helpful doc in terms of developing snappy UIs...

55:58...on both an iPhone form factor as well as an iPad form factor.

56:03Also, there are some...I'll call them rules that Apple has implemented...

56:08...whereby if you don't follow them, your app will get rejected.

56:13For example, on the iPad, you can only have one popover window open at the same time.

56:18So if you click a button, it opens a popover, you click another button it opens a popover...

56:26...you need to make sure you kill the original popover window.

56:30Small stuff like that will get the application rejected.

56:35Of course, the resource center that I mentioned has all the resources.

56:38Our resource center, that is.

56:39Some great mockup tools through a plug-in called Mock App.

56:45They actually have a PowerPoint plug-in as well as a Keynote plug-in.

56:51So if you're on Mac and you use Keynote, they have a plug-in.

56:55And basically what it is, is, well, it's a template.

56:58And you bring in the template, and it's got all of the UI elements you could ever imagine.

57:04You click, you drag them on your screen, you copy, you paste them, you move them around, and they're all to spec.

57:10They're all to size. So it is a good way to mock up your applications.

57:16You can make them linkable, and hyperlinked, so you could actually click on your slides...

57:21...on the UI within your presentation and show the next screen that's happening.

57:25Great proof of concept if you're trying to get an app approved by your bosses.

57:30Screen casts, iTunes U has plenty of iOS, Xcode, Objective-C programming videos...

57:40...some great books from Apress if you're beginning; the beginning iOS development...

57:45...using the SDK 5.0 from LaMarche...great book.

57:51Some good Objective-C books there as well. On the Android side it's similar.

57:56We do have training actually, web training that's specific to both creating applications...

58:02...as well as authoring web maps that can be used within the existing ArcGIS app.

58:07But the Android developer site is your friend, right?

58:11They have plenty of resources, it's akin to the iPhone developer site.

58:17I think it's android.develop.com.

58:20Go to it, Google it, it's got everything from deployment...

58:23...they've actually just recently come out with their own guidelines for UI, which is actually good.

58:29Even though there's no acceptance process or no approval process, you want to follow those guidelines as well.

58:36The user interface on Android devices is different...

58:39...because you've got hard keys versus only soft keys on an iOS device besides that Home key.

58:46So do read the interface guidelines, it's going to help you out a lot...

58:50...especially if you're developing native applications between the platforms.