ArcGIS Mobile 9.4, What’s Coming Next?

For those that attended the ESRI Developer Summit 2009, there was a good focus on ArcGIS Mobile. A few of the key features and enhancements that’s coming in ArcGIS 9.4 was showcased and demonstrated at the main plenary.

The ArcGIS Mobile Team has summarised a few of the key themes that ArcGIS Mobile 9.4 will be centered around.

• Extending the reach of our application platform support by including a new Tablet application that has all of the capabilities of the Windows Mobile application but targets touch screen windows devices.
• Opening our field applications as a framework for developers to extend. Our goal is to lower the bar for developers that need to build highly focused mobile applications by allowing them to extend our new Tablet application and our existing Windows Mobile application with custom extensions, tasks, and data.
• Improved usability of the Windows Mobile application. We have enhanced the Windows Mobile application so that it is more effective for touch or stylus use, added new GPS data collection functionality, improved editing workflows, support for direct picture capture, enhanced base map support including online map services, and much more.
• Simplifying the management of field projects by introducing a new Mobile Project Center application that field supervisors can use to create mobile projects and deploy them to field devices.
• Key enhancements to the Mobile SDK with exciting new capabilities for data management, consumption of online services, support for .NET 3.5, WPF, and much more.
• Simplified setup and deployment of ArcGIS Mobile technology by including all mobile client capabilities into a separate setup from the Server .NET setup.

This is nice quick summary of some of the key features we can look out for in ArcGIS Mobile 9.4. Information about each of themes can be found by having a look at some of the presentations that are now available on the ESRI Developer Summit 2009 website. This post from the ArcGIS Mobile Team can be found here: http://blogs.esri.com/dev/…