the iPhone SDK provides with MapKit a simple solution for maps und reverse geocoding without any additional costs. Does anyone know if there is a similar Framework for Cocoa on OSX? I know that google maps is capable of that but as far as I know and understand I have to pay while using google maps in a commercial application?
Thanks for your answers
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You won't have to pay as long as you don't use the quota.
The api documentation is here :
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/geocoding/
If you plan to use it reasonably, this will remain free (no api key is required anymore by google)
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our project is in China, where all google services are blocked.
does Tango need any google services, or is it self-sufficient and is able to operate on its own? if it needs services, it is basically useless to our case.
Basically,
Normal Project Tango device's features didn't need online google services.
MotionTracking, AreaLearning and Depth should do well.
you can download the sample apps sources code on here
like c samples :
https://developers.google.com/project-tango/apis/c/
try that, it won't need online google services.
But there maybe some apps which integrated Tango feature with other google services do.
Unfortunately, since Google Services is blocked in China, you can't get the BSP OTA and Play store apps updated, which means at some point you can't get new features and bugs fixed on your devices.
If you need further help. better contact project-tango-help#google.com.
AFAIK it does not. I can confirm that I've been using my devkit offline most of the time.
More generally, the core Tango services are all hosted on the device, and they were preinstalled on my devkit when I got it about 3 weeks ago. However, updates to these services come OTA via Google Play.
The three services Tango provides are motion tracking, area learning and depth sensing. Depth sensing is provided directly by the sensors, and motion tracking obviously cant be done online in a performant way. AFAIK, area learning too happens offline, but you can find more info here.
I have seen both sites, which are CloudKit and parse, also i have been read the articles as well about the comparison. Still i am not clear of that which is the best backend platform for mobile apps. I am looking forward your answer only for mobile platforms, it can be android or IOS.
Also i need to know about the performance and capacity allocation on each level.
First and foremost CloudKit don't quite support cross-platform. It generally only works with iOS. On the other hand, Parse support cross-platform. From your question, you seem to want to go for both iOS and Android. So for me to answer this question I would say Parse.
For deeper details, this link should tell all you need to know.
UPDATE:
ClouldKit now supports web services API.
Can anyone point me to a good tutorial on how to use the MapKit Framework to enable users to see nearby friends/users on a map? I'm working on an app that resembles the Grindr/Blendr functionality only with a completely different purpose...
There are several good tutorials on how to use the map kit framework in general.
Here's a link to something that will get you started.
If you are interested in a framework that will create the map and add the nearby users to it (which is not a built-in feature in the map kit framework. You have to get these users' locations and add them yourself), you should take a look at Scringo
I would like to develop a WP7 application that has a map in one portion of the display. Since it needs to be stand-alone, I need a utility that has built-in maps and does not need to surf the internet in order to operate. Is there any technique present there in wp7 to do the same. Please help me to find a solution.
Not possible, since Bing Maps doesn't work offline.
I think you might be able to use your own maps in the Bing Maps control, so you could include them in your application, see here.
Does anyone know how to access SkyDrive programmatically from Windows Phone 7? What API do I use? I need to upload files from the Phone to SkyDrive and vice versa.
Some code samples would be great. :-)
You can now officially integrate parts of SkyDrive with Windows Phone 7 applications.
Details outlined here.
There is a new Live SDK available from Microsoft which I think can do this. It's also in a very early alpha or beta state:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb264574.aspx
I have developed a sample based on SkyPad (Developer Preview). Please install the Windows Live Developer preview SDK.
The sample allows to save a file to SkyDrive and dowload it again after saving.
Here the link:
http://blog.mecum.biz/2011/10/windows-phone-7-mango-skydrive-sample/
You can use the Live SDK to integrate SkyDrive into your Windows Phone applications. Please see our code samples on GitHub.
Not an answer, but there's hope that an answer is on the way:
However, when Mike Torres was asked about features such as better usability, third-party API support, Windows Live Mesh integration, and expandable storage, he acknowledged that these are "top asks" for SkyDrive and said that they are currently "hard at work on SkyDrive as we speak"
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Your requirements sound pretty much like mine - you just want to use skydrive as a basic cloud filesystem.
I thought Matt's suggestion was an outstanding idea. I obtained the library and set out to port it, but unfortunately the codebase is huge and elaborate and absolutely riddled with the [Serializable] attribute which is not compatible with WP7. It also makes extensive use of several pieces of framework not available in WP7x, including X509Chain and Authorization.
SkyDriveApi is not even compatible with VS2010 - an attempted conversion produced a big mess so I just tried it out in VS2008.
We could always write one. This looks like a fair bit of work so I invite you to collaborate.
Well, it's feature complete and working a treat. I'd like to thank people for all the support and assistance I received reverse engineering the protocol using Fiddler, and coding, testing and debugging the prototype into production ready code. I'd like to, but nobody contributed a damn thing. Good luck writing your own.
SkyDrive doesn't have an official API but here are some unofficial ones. I'd start by looking at http://skydriveapiclient.codeplex.com/.
It doesn't claim support for WP7 but you may be able to port it.