Cross-platform development
Cross-platform development is the practice of creating software that runs across multiple operating systems, hardware platforms, or computing environments, often from shared code.
Learn Docker in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition
Multi-platform support is the ability of software or its delivery process to operate across multiple operating-system and processor platforms.
- How it is used
- Supports roadmap planning and container delivery across operating systems, processor architectures, developer machines, clouds, and customer environments.
- How deep it goes
- Explains Dockerfile rules, build-service trade-offs, workflow sequencing, image tagging, and local verification without detailing platform internals.
- Examples
- Uses Linux and Windows images, Intel and Arm architectures, staged workflows, platform-specific tags, and GitHub Container Registry pulls.
- What you can do after
- Build it from scratch with portable Dockerfiles and automate staged Linux and Windows image builds through GitHub Actions.
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Python How-To
The property of software being able to run across multiple operating-system or hardware platforms with little or no platform-specific modification.
- How it is used
- Uses Python and pathlib to keep file operations and applications portable across common operating systems.
- How deep it goes
- Explains portability broadly and demonstrates OS-agnostic paths, without detailing broader platform-specific testing.
- Examples
- Demonstrates portable directory creation, path joining, file writing, and web-app deployment across platforms.
- What you can do after
- Apply it via pathlib to construct portable paths and generate files without hard-coding operating-system separators.
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Related concepts
- MAUIincludes · .NET MAUI is a cross-platform .NET framework for building native applications and user interfaces from a shared codebase.
- native applicationalternative to · A native application is software built or compiled to run directly on a particular operating system or device platform using its capabilities.
- pathlibaddressed by · pathlib is a Python standard-library module providing object-oriented classes and operations for representing and manipulating filesystem paths.
- QEMUuses · QEMU is an open-source machine emulator and virtualizer that runs operating systems and programs for different computer architectures.
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