In the second half of the Internet, mobile App development has more stringent requirements on quality and speed. In early April, Tencent Cloud officially launched mobile development platform MobileLine, with Tencent’s mature accumulation in the field of mobile application development, to help mobile developers build flexible, high-quality boutique applications at low cost and fast.
In just a few days, hundreds of mobile developers applied for access.
First, simple, efficient is king, Tencent internal mobile development flowers bloom
Tencent has been actively embracing the mobile Internet, creating a number of boutique applications. As a matter of fact, various services supporting mobile development are flourishing inside Tencent, such as mobile analysis, information push, Crash report and other general services. Tencent cloud MobileLine as Tencent mobile service external output window, Tencent will internal this long-experienced business tempered, with mature experience ability, through the form of cloud output to developers, let mobile development more simple and efficient.
For new App developers, MobileLine offers different features and tools at different stages of the App lifecycle. For developers who want to add mobile services to their existing apps, MobileLine offers seamless integration. At present, apps built based on related services of mobile development platform include: a mobile phone travel to Yunnan, Wechat reading, KEEP, Mogujie, etc.
Second, win at the starting line and create a cloud integrated development model
Tencent cloud mobile development platform MobileLine for developers more common needs, first of all open some developers demand more urgent mobile services, so that mobile developers can enjoy Tencent in mobile development here mature accumulation, to achieve cloud and terminal integration of closed-loop development experience.
1. Mobile Analytics (MTA) : real-time data statistical analysis service, monitoring version quality, channel status, user portrait attributes and user segmentation behavior, and assisting product operation decisions through data visualization.
2. Mobile push (carrier pigeon) : professional mobile App push service, supporting tens of billions of notification/message push, reaching mobile users in seconds.
3. Abnormal Crash detection (Bugly) : Provide professional abnormal reporting and operation statistics for mobile developers, help developers quickly find and solve anomalies, master product operation dynamics, and timely follow up user feedback.
4. Billing (Meter Master) : Provide merchants with professional one-stop billing solutions, integrate mainstream payment channels at home and abroad, provide account custody, security risk control, account reconciliation and settlement, marketing activities, data analysis, three-dimensional monitoring and other multidimensional services, covering multiple types, multiple scenarios and multiple terminals.
5. Cloud storage (COS) : Provides enterprise and individual developers with highly scalable, low-cost, reliable, and secure object storage services. Developers can use COS to store images, audio, video, or other user-generated content.
6. Static resource hosting: Provides fast and secure static hosting for web applications. Developers can quickly deploy static content needed by websites or applications to Tencent Cloud CDN to provide accelerated services.
MobileLine’s ultimate goal is to provide mobile developers with a complete enterprise mobile development solution that covers the entire life cycle from development to operational, and will continue to open up application building, continuous integration, quality control and other services to form a cloud + mobile DevOps solution.
Iii. Full chain and all-round mobile development services, enabling App developers to focus on core business
Tencent has been building mobile development ecology for many years, and has formed a complete set of mobile services in all aspects and chains. Taking the development of mobile games as an example, the game currency account, including recharge, consumption and marketing activities, is completely managed by Mi Master. User operations can be easily solved using mobile analytics (MTA) and mobile push service (Homing pigeon). Pictures and videos are stored in the cloud storage service (COS). In addition, by integrating various social relationship chains, such as nearby players based on LBS ability, as well as QQ and wechat relationship chains, good word of mouth can ignite social circles and create killer apps.
As a result, MobileLine “packaged” all of the peripherals of App development, allowing developers to focus more on the core business logic. Chen Dashu, CEO of Tong Yan, a well-known preschool education app, said, “The new version we built based on Tencent’s cloud mobile development platform is about to go online, which has greatly improved the efficiency of our research and development, and shortened the version launch period significantly than expected.”
Tencent mobile development platform MobileLine as an open window, will continue to open the company’s excellent mobile services, improve mobile development efficiency, help users create more high-quality applications.
Addendum: MobileLine from scratch, fast integration in four steps
Step 1: Create projects and applications from the console. You only need to enter 5 fields to create them easily
Step 2: Download the configuration file from the console and drop it to the specified location.
Step 3: Integrate the SDK with simple configuration dependencies, in the case of Android development, just one line
Step 4: Initialize
For Android development, you only need to add two lines of code to the Application’s onCreate() method
At this point, you have integrated the most basic mobile analytics services. From there, it’s easy and quick to integrate other mobile services.
In fact, for iOS development, the first two steps are exactly the same. The third step integrates the SDK and the fourth step initializes without any pressure. For details, see the documentation for getting started on the mobile development platform.