LEADTOOLS V20, the world leader in the field of digital image development tools, has been officially released. This article introduces the new LEADTOOLS V20 development platform.

LEAD Technologies has officially launched LEADTOOLS V20. This new release extends LEAD’s imaging technology to new and fast-growing development markets, leveraging the new version of the library. NET Standard to target the Xamarin application model. NET Framework,.NET Core and Visual Studio Tools, and Microsoft Azure services. In addition, existing technologies in the LEAD documentation, medical and multimedia product lines have been added with new capabilities and increased speed.

Today we take a look at LEADTOOLS ‘new development platform:

The new platform

Developers can now write a uniform code base, while targeting a wider range. More platforms and devices protected by the.NET standard.

  • .NET Framework – Windows
  • .NET Standard
    • .NET Core – Windows, Linux and macOS
    • Xamarin – iOS, Android and UWP
    • UWP (Universal Windows Platform)

A comparison of all the platforms supported by LEADTOOLS:

If you’d like to see more comparative tables on all the platforms LEADTOOLS supports, check them out here.

Platforms and programming interfaces supported by LEADTOOLS

  • C Windows API – C/C++,Java
  • .NET
    • C#, VB, C++/CLI, XAML
    • WinForms, WPF, Core, Xamarin, UWP
  • HTML5/JavaScript
  • Web Services – JSON, WebAPI, SOAP, RESTful
  • iOS & macOS – Objective-C, Swift, Xamarin
  • Android – Java, Xamarin
  • Linux – Java & C/C++, .NET Core

Azure service

LEADTOOLS V20 contains new libraries that make it easy and fast to create images and identify cloud services that can be used from applications. For more information, visit the Cloud Services page.