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.NET
.NET, also known as .NET Core, is Microsoft's cross-platform, open-source developer platform for building web, mobile, desktop, cloud, and game applications, first released in 2002 and hosted on GitHub under the MIT license.
.NET Framework
.NET Framework is a Microsoft software platform for building and running Windows applications and web services, consisting of the common language runtime and a large class library.
.NET Framework version history
The .NET Framework version history tracks Microsoft's Windows-only application platform from version 1.0, released in 2002, through rapid major releases to the frozen, quarterly serviced 4.8.x line.
ActiveX
ActiveX is a Microsoft framework, announced in 1996, for reusable software components built on COM that can embed in applications and web pages, now considered legacy.
Adobe AIR
Adobe AIR, also known as Adobe Integrated Runtime, is a cross-platform runtime for building desktop and mobile apps with HTML, JavaScript, and ActionScript, first released in 2008.
Android Auto
Android Auto is a Google platform that projects a driver-optimized interface from an Android phone onto a car's infotainment display, announced in 2014 and launched in March 2015.
Android Jetpack
Android Jetpack is a suite of libraries, tools, and architectural guidance from Google for building Android apps, announced at Google I/O on May 8, 2018.
Android SDK
The Android SDK is Google's software development kit for the Android operating system. Developers use it in Android Studio, which Google announced in 2013 with Gradle as the build system.
Android software development
Android software development, also known as Android app development, is the practice of building applications for the Android operating system, primarily in Kotlin, Java, and C++ using the Android SDK and Android Studio.
Apache Cordova
Apache Cordova, formerly PhoneGap, is an open-source framework for building native mobile apps with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, with plugins giving access to device capabilities.
Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless
Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW), also called Qualcomm Brew, was a mobile application platform Qualcomm announced in 2001 for CDMA phones, later renamed Brew MP.
Bonjour (software)
Bonjour, originally released as Rendezvous in 2002, is Apple's zero-configuration networking implementation, built into macOS and iOS, that discovers services such as printers without manual configuration.
C++ Standard Library
The C++ Standard Library is the set of headers and components defined in the ISO C++ standard, supplying containers, algorithms, strings, numerics, and concurrency, mostly in namespace std.
Chromium Embedded Framework
The Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) is an open source, BSD-licensed framework, founded by Marshall Greenblatt in 2008, for embedding a Chromium-based web browser in other applications.
Cocoa (API)
Cocoa, also known as Yellow Box and OS X Cocoa, is Apple's object-oriented application framework for macOS, built on the Foundation and AppKit frameworks; its iOS counterpart is Cocoa Touch.
Component Object Model
The Component Object Model (COM) is Microsoft's platform-independent, object-oriented system for creating binary software components that interoperate across languages, processes, and computers, underpinning OLE and ActiveX.
Cygwin
Cygwin is a collection of GNU and open-source tools and a runtime library that provides a Linux-like, POSIX-compatible environment on Microsoft Windows, letting most UNIX software run with few source changes.
D-Bus
D-Bus is an interprocess communication system built around a central message bus, started at Red Hat in 2002 and now a standard part of Linux desktops like GNOME and KDE.
Dalvik (software)
Dalvik, also known as the Dalvik Virtual Machine, was the process virtual machine that executed Android apps until Android 5.0, running register-based DEX bytecode designed for low-RAM devices.
Expo (software)
Expo is a framework and set of tools for building React Native applications, letting developers write one JavaScript or TypeScript project that runs natively on Android, iOS, and web.
Facebook Platform
Facebook Platform is the set of APIs, tools, and policies that let outside developers build software integrating with Facebook, announced by Mark Zuckerberg at the f8 event in 2007.
Flutter (software)
Flutter, also known as Google Flutter, is an open source cross-platform user interface toolkit written in Dart that builds iOS, Android, web, and desktop apps from a single codebase.
Gettext
GNU Gettext is a system of command-line tools and the libintl runtime library for translating a program's messages into many languages without changing the source code.
Google Play Services
Google Play Services is a proprietary background service and software platform on Google-certified Android devices, introduced in 2012, that provides shared, automatically updated implementations of Google's APIs to Android apps.
Ionic (mobile app framework)
Ionic, also known as Ionic Framework, is an open source toolkit for building iOS, Android, and Progressive Web Apps from one codebase with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, announced in 2013 and acquired by OutSystems in 2022.
Java (software platform)
Java, also known as the Java Platform, is a software platform launched by Sun Microsystems in 1995 and stewarded by Oracle, combining a programming language, virtual machine, and standard libraries.
Java Development Kit
The Java Development Kit (JDK) is a software package designed for developers, bundling the Java compiler, standard class libraries, command-line development tools, and a Java Virtual Machine (JVM).
Java Native Interface
The Java Native Interface (JNI) is a standard programming interface that lets Java code call native functions in C, C++, and assembly, first released in 1997 with JDK 1.1.
JavaBeans
JavaBeans is a component architecture for the Java programming language, introduced by Sun Microsystems in 1996, that defines conventions for writing reusable software components called beans.
Javadoc
Javadoc is the documentation generator included in the Java Development Kit that reads Java source files and produces HTML API documentation from specially formatted code comments.