Mobile Internet start-up threshold low development engine breaking technical barriers

There are signs that the mobile internet will be the preferred starting point for developers in the 2012. Earlier Zend published "Zend Developer Pulse" (Developer Survey), 66% of developers most wanted to participate in mobile application development in "the type of project that developers want to participate in 2012 years" survey, 67% Developers value mobile application development.

According to the domestic well-known mobile Internet Integrated services platform micro-cloud data, the current micro-cloud platform developers are close to 20,000, more than 2 years ago doubled.

Note: 66% of developers are most interested in mobile application development in the "type of project that developers want to participate in 2012 years" survey

Low barriers to mobile internet technology

How low is the technology threshold for mobile internet? A reminder app developer Mr. Sun told reporters that the company, in addition to running its own products, but also do some outsourcing work, some simple app only need 1 programmers working a few days time can be completed. Micro-Cloud Coo Qi said, game-like app is a more complex application, but its development cycle is not long, to the micro-cloud platform for example, developers use the Wiengine engine to make game applications, only 2 weeks to complete a 三、四十个 checkpoint works.

Qi said that the primary developers on the micro-cloud platform, many of the original Java and C + + developers turned around, they have not even learned the development of iOS or Android. Because the platform itself is open, and the Micro cloud provides many tools, including the game engine. So developers only need to have a certain program development base, you can easily start.

Development engine breaks Technical barriers

According to the reporter understands, at present the market many open platform has provided the development engine, the application is more extensive, also has 七、八款 many. Some of these engines are open source, some are not open source. "Open source is not to determine the quality of a development engine, in addition to the engine itself, but also to see whether the platform's support for developers is not in place." "Qi said. "Engine is just a tool, the engine also needs a lot of supporting software, such as some animation editor, map editor, etc., matching content is not rich, will also affect the development prospects of the engine." ”

Development engine combined with supporting tools, can save development costs for developers. For example, the game often appears in the explosion, water droplets, parabolic trajectory and other special effects, developers can find in the material library, which also eliminates the production time. Not only that, the game code can be streamlined through the development engine. "The code for mobile games is pretty simple compared to computer programs," he said. Qi told reporters. "Using the Wiengine engine to develop games can make your program code leaner." Qi For example, a 5000 lines of code game, on the basis of the Wiengine engine, it becomes more than 1000 lines.

If you say "Angry Birds", "Cut Rope", "Crocodile bath", "empty Arithmetic" and other small stand-alone works represents the brilliant stage of mobile gaming, that networking and social performance is the next step in the development of mobile games. If the developer wants to integrate the social function in the game, must build the network game architecture at the beginning of the development, with the server, sets the interactive way ... In the above series of work also need to be equipped with a large number of personnel responsible for operation, this is undoubtedly to the small and medium-sized developers set a high threshold.

"The micro-cloud platform provides developers with a molded social module, and as long as the developer joins the module in the game, everything becomes very simple." In other words, through the services provided by the micro-cloud platform, developers can not only quickly develop, but also the first time to turn a stand-alone game into a social game. Qi admits.

Open platform for free developer training

Reporter learned that the market to provide mobile game development engine companies, many of the developers to provide free training services. In the case of micro cloud, the service chamber provides a complete Wiengie engine training course. In addition, in the integration with other types of engine, micro-cloud will provide the corresponding technical support. "Like Unreal Engine 3, the Micro Cloud has a series of films that it integrates with, and it's easy for developers to get started." "Qi said.

Wiengine built-in hundreds of footage of the demo, as well as more than 400 game action scenes of the demo, developers on these basis a little modification, it is easy to design a game of the checkpoint. In addition, the micro-cloud platform provides developers with strong follow-up technical support. Qi told reporters that in addition to training courses, micro-cloud almost every month in the country to hold a developer salon, engineers will listen to developers face-to-face feedback, and help developers solve problems. and has the specialized Wiengine technology blog and the developer carries on the development related question exchange.

Qi also revealed that the micro-cloud Wiengine engine is the first in the country to provide two platforms across the Android and iOS services. and supports both Java and C + + dual languages. Next, the micro-cloud will launch a new version of the Wiengine engine for HTML5 and provide developers with detailed tutorials and a wealth of supporting tools.