Embarcadero Technologies, the leading provider of developers tools for application and database professionals, announced the latest release of their Appmethod for developers. Appmethod enables developers to build highly connected apps for the Internet-of-Things (IoT) using a single app development platform and shared C++ codebase.

The Appmethod September 2014 Release provides a complete app development platform for developers for building natively compiled C++ apps that connect mobile and desktop devices, sensors, gadgets, wearables, cloud services, and data.

Appmethod lets developers create Android, iOS, Windows, Mac and other platform apps with a single C++ codebase using natively compiled languages. The company is now extending Appmethod’s capabilities by adding FireUI, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi App Tethering and Enterprise Mobility Services (EMS) for its RAD Studio XE7 r environment for Delphi/Object Pascal and C++.

FireUI combines a multi-device UI designer, rendering technology and layout components that enables developers apps for multiple platforms to be built using common user interface source code. Bluetooth and Wi-Fi App Tethering allows developers to easily connect apps to any wireless or Internet-connected gadgets, sensors and devices via Bluetooth and WI-Fi app tethering and EMS is a solution that can be deployed on premise, or into a private cloud by a development team, to provide a set of application services, including user authentication, analytics, encrypted embedded and server storage, custom API management, and Mobile Enterprise SQL database connectivity.

Connected apps for the Internet of Things

IoT is enabling a completely new class of application architecture that extends the user experience beyond ‘the screen’ to connected devices, sensors, gadgets, and wearables, aggregating information from multiple devices.

“The device landscape has exploded beyond PCs, tablets and smartphones. Now, wearables, sensors, home automation, and connected cars present a completely new app ecosystem. Apps no longer live on a single device and instead are interconnected across a broad range of ‘things’ to deliver an integrated yet distributed solution,” says Michael Swindell Sr. Vice President of Products at Embarcadero. “With the increasing focus on IoT app development and the potential for the number of connected ‘things’, developers will need to focus more on the creation of innovative and practical apps that leverage IoT, and less on the mechanics of connecting each ‘thing’.”

Embarcadero says revolutionizing applications in industries from health care to smart manufacturing, IoT presents incredible new opportunities, yet developers face challenges in building this new generation of connected applications.

Embarcadero designed Appmethod to make it incredibly simple to build powerful cross-platform apps with C++ that easily connect with and include a wide variety of consumer and industrial devices, sensors, enterprise data, and cloud services. Appmethod is designed as a complete end-to-end platform that can rapidly open the IoT door for developers building the next generation of device-extended applications.

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