Qualcomm and Microsoft to create Windows 10 based developer kit to test apps
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May 28, 2021 18:13 IST
The collaboration is said to strengthen resources for independent software vendors and application developers who are recompiling, optimising, and testing applications.
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The Snapdragon Developer kit will be commercially available at the Microsoft Store this summer.
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The collaboration is said to strengthen resources for independent software vendors and application developers who are recompiling, optimising, and testing applications.
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Qualcomm and Microsoft have teamed up to create a cost-effective Developer Kit that will enable app developers to test their solutions for an enhanced user experience on Snapdragon-enabled Windows 10 PCs.
Qualcomm introduces the Snapdragon Developer Kit for Windows May 24, 2021 11:50 EDT with 4 comments
Windows 10 devices powered by ARM chipsets have been around for a few years at this point, but if you re a developer making apps for ARM-based Windows 10 PCs, it can be expensive to test them due to the price of most of those devices. To address that, Qualcomm today announced the Snapdragon Developer Kit, an ARM-based PC reference design meant for testing Windows 10 apps.
Unlike most Windows 10 ARM PCs available right now, the Snapdragon Developer Kit is a desktop, so it doesn t have a display or anything that significantly adds to the cost. It s just a small PC you can use with your existing monitor, which makes it more affordable for developers to test their apps on ARM devices. It s powered by the new Snapdragon 7c Gen2 compute platform, which is one of the most affordable ARM chipset that can run Windows 10 right now. Again, this helps