What is Intel® INDE? Why Should I Care?

Imagine yourself in a brain storming session with your colleagues.  You have an idea for the next hit mobile application.  You know what features you want to implement. You know your target user.  At this point your requirements are starting to become defined.

But there is a problem: what platform? What architecture? What operating system?  As a developer, you want your brilliant application to be enjoyed by all.  In a market where there are countless platforms and many prominent OS choices, it’s difficult to choose how to approach the problem.  

There are a couple general approaches. 

You could choose a single platform and operating system to develop for, reducing the total market for you application, but your app will most likely be better performing and have less bugs than other approaches. Possibly you could port your app to a different platform in the future, but the code will be difficult to reuse. 

Another approach would be to develop code that is easily portable between platforms and OSs.  Often this becomes difficult to debug and often requires different IDEs for each platform.  In addition, you pay the price of portable code by giving up native performance and native look-and-feel. 

What a disappointing problem.  The choice between native performance and cross platform development. 

What If I told you that you didn’t have to choose?

(Enter Intel® INDE)

“What is this Intel® INDE you speak of?” says the curious developer.  

Well, it’s the solution to the above problem. 

Intel® INDE is the Integrated Native Developer Experience. Precisely, it gives you the ability to target multiple OSs and platforms while maintaining native look-and-feel and high performance.  Intel® INDE is a fully loaded tool suite that gets your amazing apps to market faster, giving you the freedom to choose your favorite IDE.  Cross-OS, Cross-Architecture is no longer a problem. Create high-performance C++/Java* applications for: Windows* on Intel® architecture, OS X* on Intel® architecture, and Android* on ARM and Intel® architectures.

Get access to many of Intel® INDE’s great build tools such as the Media SDK, Intel® C++ compiler, OpenCL code builder, Intel® Thread Building Blocks, and much more. Plus, many of these feature libraries are directly integrated into your favorite IDE once you install Intel® INDE. 

“Awesome, a full set of build tools. But what else can Intel® INDE offer?” says the ever curious developer.

Glad you asked curious developer.  Intel® INDE also offers amazing debug, analysis, and optimization tools.  As a developer, your time is valuable.  Hence, debugging, analysis, and optimization often sit low on the totem pole.  Intel® INDE makes these tasks much easier, letting you spend time actually fixing your code, knowing precisely the problem.  Easily debug and optimize your graphics applications with Frame Analyzer for DirectX and Frame Analyzer for OpenGL, Analyze your GPU and CPU execution pipeline with Platform Analyzer, speed up your Android app emulation with Intel® HAXM, and much more.

Pretty cool right?

An innovative solution to our rapidly changing device environment. 

“Well where can I get started with Intel INDE?” says the once again, curious developer. 

Getting started with Intel INDE is easy! You can download Intel® INDE Professional for FREE till August 31^st.  Once you have installed Intel® INDE, head on over to the Intel® INDE support pages and check out the getting started guide, code samples, and much more!