System requirements for 200.4

The system requirements for version 200.4 are the same for developing apps whether you're using the C++ or the QML API's. See the sections below for the requirements for your development machine and target platform.

Developing apps on Windows

Using Windows as your development environment, you can develop apps for Windows and Android. See the Deploying apps to Android section later in this document for a list of additional software needed for Android app development.

Supported operating systems:

  • Windows 11 (64-bit) version 21H2 (build 22000) or higher
  • Windows 10 (64-bit) version 21H2 (build 19044) or higher
  • Windows Server 2022 Standard and Datacenter
SoftwareVersionsNotes
Qt Framework for Windows6.5.1 or higher, MSVC2019 (64-bit)
Qt Creator10.0.1 or higherQt Creator is the recommended IDE.
DirectXSee Video graphics adapter (below)DirectX is the recommended rendering API.
OpenGL4.1Qt Widgets only supports OpenGL.
Microsoft Visual Studio C++ compiler16.1.6Deployed apps must deploy all Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 DLLs required to run.
Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 - 2022 Redistributable (x64)

Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022 Redistributable version 14.38.33130 minimum.

HardwareMinimumNotes
CPU Typex86 familyHyper-threading (HHT) or Multi-core recommended.
Video graphics adapterDirect3D 11.1OpenGL can be used as an alternative. See the Rendering section later in this document.

Notes

An operating system can only be supported if it is also supported by the Qt Framework from The Qt Group. It is recommended to use the latest supported version of the operating system. Learn more about Qt licensing terms and conditions at The Qt Group.

Developing apps on Linux

Using Linux as your development environment, you can develop apps for Linux and Android. See the Deploying apps to Android section later in this document for a list of additional software needed for Android app development. Also review the Qt documentation Qt for Linux for further details.

LinuxVersionNotes
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (64-bit)Minimum version is 8.4GCC 10 is the minimum version compiler.
Ubuntu (64-bit)22.04 LTS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (64-bit)Minimum version is 15 LTS SP4
SoftwareVersionsNotes
Qt Framework for Linux6.5.1 or higher
Qt Creator10.0.1 or higherQt Creator is the recommended IDE.
OpenGLSee Video graphics adapter in the table below.Using Mesa software rendering is not supported with the ArcGIS Maps SDK for Qt.
HardwareMinimumNotes
CPU Typex86 familyHyper-threading (HHT) or Multi-core recommended.
Video graphics adapterOpenGL 2.1 for 2D map views, 3.2 for 3D scene views Shader Model 1.2Hardware video adapter is required. Be sure to use the latest available driver.

Notes

An operating system can only be supported if it is also supported by the Qt Framework from The Qt Group. It is recommended to use the latest supported version of the operating system. Learn more about Qt licensing terms and conditions at The Qt Group.

ArcGIS Maps SDK for Qt and its deployments are only supported on CPUs that adhere to the x86 architecture.

The operating system binary must not be modified. Esri does not provide support if products are installed on the developer's release of an operating system.

Linux patches from Ubuntu will be supported as long as the patches are from Ubuntu without any modification to the latest kernel/glibc version.

Developing apps on macOS

Using macOS as your development environment, you can develop apps for macOS, iOS, and Android. See the Deploying apps to Android and the Deploying apps to iOS sections later in this document for a list of additional software needed for Android and iOS app development.

Supported operating systems:

  • macOS 14 (Sonoma)
  • macOS 13 (Ventura)
  • macOS 12 (Monterey)

Supported architectures:

  • Apple Mac computer with Intel processor : x86-64

  • Apple Mac computer with Apple silicon : M1 , M2

SoftwareVersionsNotes
Qt Framework for macOS (OS X)6.5.1 or higher
Qt Creator10.0.1 or higherQt Creator is the recommended IDE.
Xcode14.2 or higherIncluding Xcode Command Line Tools.
MetalSee Video graphics adapter (below)Metal is the recommended rendering API.
OpenGL4.1Qt Widgets only supports OpenGL.
HardwareMinimumNotes
CPU TypeIntel and Apple Silicon are supportedHyper-threading (HHT) or Multi-core recommended.
Video graphics adapterMetal 3.0 for Ventura, or 2.0 for MontereyOpenGL can be used as an alternative. See the Rendering section later in this document.

Notes

An operating system can only be supported if it is also supported by the Qt Framework from The Qt Group. It is recommended to use the latest supported version of the operating system. Learn more about Qt licensing terms and conditions at The Qt Group.

Deploying apps to Android

Supported operating systems:

Minimum supported version: Android 8.0 (API level 26) ; Maximum supported version: Android 14 (API level 34) .

SoftwareMinimum versionsNotes
Qt Framework for Android6.5.1 or higher
Qt Creator10.0.1 or higherQt Creator is the recommended IDE.
Android SDK Tools26 or higher
Android SDK Build ToolsRev 31.0.0
NDKMinimum version 25b
Java Development Kit (JDK)11

Notes

Android arm-v7a, arm64-v8a, and x86 architectures are supported.

An operating system can only be supported if it is also supported by the Qt Framework from The Qt Group. It is recommended to use the latest supported version of the operating system. Learn more about Qt licensing terms and conditions at The Qt Group.

Deploying apps to iOS

Supported operating systems:

  • iOS/iPadOS 17
  • iOS/iPadOS 16
  • iOS/iPadOS 15

Supported architectures:

  • Apple Mac computer with Intel processor : x86-64

  • Apple Mac computer with Apple silicon : M1 , M2

SoftwareVersionsNotes
Qt Framework for iOS6.5.1 or higher
Qt Creator10.0.1 or higherQt Creator is the recommended IDE.
Xcode14.2.0 or higherIncluding Xcode Command Line Tools.
iOS Simulatorx64 only

Notes

An operating system can only be supported if it is also supported by the Qt Framework from The Qt Group. It is recommended to use the latest supported version of the operating system. Learn more about Qt licensing terms and conditions at The Qt Group.

OpenGL ES

ArcGIS Maps SDK for Qt uses OpenGL ES technology on Android to render 2D map views and 3D scene views. Rendering in a map view uses OpenGL ES 3.0 or above if available on the device. Otherwise it uses OpenGL ES 2.0 or above. Rendering in a scene view requires OpenGL ES 3.2.

You may need to configure graphics acceleration when using an Android emulator. For more information, see the document Configure hardware acceleration for the Android Emulator.

OpenGL ES 3.0 for geoanalysis

OpenGL ES 3.0 or above is required if you are using the geoanalysis tools. These analysis classes primarily perform work on the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU).

Rendering

ArcGIS Maps SDK for Qt renders 2D maps and 3D scenes with different graphics APIs, depending on the platform. The Qt Rendering Hardware Interface (RHI) for Qt Quick applications defaults to Metal for macOS/iOS, Direct3D on Windows, OpenGL on Linux, and OpenGL ES on Android. When developing Qt Quick apps for macOS/iOS or Windows, you will need to include Metal or Direct3D shaders respectively or force the use of OpenGL. See the Deployment page for information on how to include these additional shaders within your apps. If you want your application to always force the use of OpenGL regardless of platform and not use the target's default rendering API, you can make the following call in your main() C++ method, before constructing any QQuickWindow:

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Secure Socket Layer (SSL) support for https

This API requires SSL support to make network requests over https using the Qt Framework. The Qt Framework supports various SSL backends per platform, for example Schannel on Windows, secure-transport on Apple platforms, OpenSSL on Linux, etc. The following Qt documentation provides additional details for SSL configuration and deployment with Qt.

Apps built with ArcGIS Maps SDK for Qt can be deployed to a wide variety of hardware that meet the software system requirements. The tables below outline the minimum recommended hardware to achieve good performance on desktop platforms and mobile devices.

Desktop platforms

HardwareMinimum Recommended
Processor
  • Windows and Linux: 2.6 Ghz Intel i7, 6-core / 3.6 Ghz AMD Ryzen7, 6-core.
  • Mac: M1 Apple Silicon
  • RAM
  • Maps (2D): 16GB
  • Scenes (3D): 32GB
  • GPUNVidia Quadro/AMD Radeon
  • Maps (2D): 2GB GDDR6
  • Scenes (3D): 4-8GB GDDR6
  • Disk1TB, SSD Hard Drive

    iOS devices

    HardwareMinimum Recommended
    Processor
  • Maps (2D): A11 Bionic processor
  • Scenes (3D): A12 Bionic processor
  • RAM
  • Maps (2D): 3GB
  • Scenes (3D): 4GB
  • Android devices

    HardwareMinimum Recommended
    Processor
  • Maps (2D): 6 core processors belonging to the Qualcomm Snapdragon, Samsung Exynos, Google Tensor, Mediatek Dimensity series
  • Scenes (3D): 8 core processors belonging to the Qualcomm Snapdragon, Samsung Exynos, Google Tensor, Mediatek Dimensity series
  • RAM
  • Maps (2D): 3GB
  • Scenes (3D): 4GB
  • GPUAdreno 620 or Mali G57 equivalent

    ArcGIS software and connected services

    Use this table to determine the lowest Version of the ArcGIS software that supports a specific functionality.

    ArcGIS SoftwareVersionFunctionality supported by ArcGIS Maps SDKs for Native Apps
    ArcGIS Enterprise11
    • Utility Network version 6
    ArcGIS Enterprise10.9
    • Honor scale expression in a dictionary renderer
    • Take a dictionary web style (referenced in a web map) offline
    • Read a dictionary renderer from a web map
    • Subtype group layers
    • Utility Network version 5
    • Take utility networks offline
    • Named trace configurations
    • Display filters
    ArcGIS Enterprise10.8.1
    • Read CIM symbols from a web map
    • Nonspatial association queries
    • Utility Network version 4
    • Aggregated geometry trace result
    • Filter barriers
    • Read and write utility networks from and to webmap
    • Get utility network state
    • Snapping with the geometry editor against polygon and polyline feature service layers requiring edit mode for quantization support.
    ArcGIS Enterprise10.8
    • Standard and advanced user type licensing
    • Web styles
    ArcGIS Enterprise10.7.1
    • Scheduled updates to the feature services involved in the preplanned workflow (offline maps)
    ArcGIS Enterprise10.7
    • Annotation layers
    • Feature linked annotation
    • Utility Network version 3
    ArcGIS Enterprise10.6.1
    • Offline maps created using the preplanned workflow
    • Feature tiles
    • Branch versioning
    • Support for attribute rules
    • Arcade console function support
    • Prevent subnetwork controller deletion
    ArcGIS Enterprise10.6
    • Utility Network traces
    • Session management for branch versioned feature services
    • Branch versioned utility network
    • Element and spatial association queries
    • Honor association deletion semantics when editing
    • Honor server logic for feature service client edits
    • Validate utility network topology
    ArcGIS Enterprise10.5
    • Opt in to request curves from feature services
    ArcGIS Enterprise10.4
    • Advanced parameters for the on-demand workflow (offline maps)
    ArcGIS Enterprise10.3
    • Web map and scene support
    • Feature services
    • Tiled services
    • Offline maps created using the on-demand workflow
    ArcGIS Pro3.0
    • Utility Network version 6
    • Publish mobile map packages that specify labels on left or right of a line geometry
    • WiFi based indoor positioning on Android devices
    ArcGIS Pro2.9
    • Floor aware maps/scenes in mobile map/scene packages
    • Updated military dictionary styles with ORDERED ANCHOR POINTS support
    • Publish mobile map packages with scale-based and alternate symbols on a feature layer with a unique value or class breaks renderer
    • Display filters
    • Offline tracing on stand-alone mobile geodatabase
    ArcGIS Pro2.8
    • Floor aware web maps and web scenes
    • Read and write display filters from and to webmap
    ArcGIS Pro2.7
    • Honor scale expression in a dictionary renderer
    • Take a dictionary web style (referenced in a web map) offline
    • Read CIM symbols from a web map
    • Read a dictionary renderer from a web map
    • Utility Network version 5
    • Take utility networks offline
    • Named trace configurations
    ArcGIS Pro2.6
    • Online services (for layers and tables) in mobile map and scene packages
    • Publishing web styles
    • Dictionary web styles in mobile map packages
    • Subtype group layers
    • Utility Network version 4
    • Read and write utility networks from and to webmap
    • Nonspatial association queries
    • Filter barriers
    ArcGIS Pro2.5
    • Elevation sources can use raster files in a mobile scene package
    • Transportation networks in a mobile scene package
    • Vector tile packages with custom styles in mobile map packages
    ArcGIS Pro2.4
    • Expiration of mobile map and scene packages (requires the Publisher Extension)
    • Utility Network version 3
    ArcGIS Pro2.3.2
    • Create a mobile scene package (.mspk)
    ArcGIS Pro2.3
    • Create annotation layers and publish in a mobile map package
    • Next generation (.loz) locators
    ArcGIS Pro2.2
    • Create a mobile map package (.mmpk)
    • Utility network (version 2)
    ArcMap10.3
    • Create Runtime Content

    Local Server version compatibility with ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Pro

    Local Server is supported with the C++ API on Windows and Linux. Local Server is not supported on Android, iOS, or macOS. Local Server cannot be used with the QML API.

    SDK versionLocal Server versionArcGIS Pro versionArcGIS Desktop version
    200.0-200.4200.13.xNot supported
    200.0-200.4, 100.15100.152.9Not supported
    100.14100.142.9Not supported
    100.12100.122.8Not supported
    100.10100.102.7Not supported
    100.9100.92.610.8
    100.8100.8Not supported10.8

    Versions of supported specifications

    Standards supported in this release include the following:

    • Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards:
      • Web Map Service (WMS) versions 1.1.0, 1.1.1, and 1.3.0
      • Web Map Tiled Service (WMTS) version 1.0.0
      • Web Feature Service (WFS) versions 2.0.0 and 2.0.2
      • API Features Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3
      • GeoPackage versions 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2
      • KML 2.2
    • Military symbology standards:
      • NATO APP-6(B) and APP-6(D)
      • United States MIL-STD-2525B (change 2), MIL-STD-2525C, and MIL-STD-2525D
    • International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) standards:
      • S-52 (Specifications for Chart Content and Display Aspects of ECDIS)
      • S-57 (Transfer Standard for Digital Hydrographic Data)
    Indexed 3D Scene Layer (I3S)Esri I3S versionsOGC I3S versions
    3D Object Scene Layer1.6, 1.7, 1.81.0, 1.1, 1.2
    Integrated Mesh Scene Layer1.6, 1.7, 1.81.0, 1.1, 1.2
    Point Cloud Scene Layer1.6, 2.01.1, 1.2
    Point Scene Layer1.61.0
    Building Scene LayerNot supportedNot supported
    Voxel Scene LayerNot supportedNot supported

    On-premises virtualization

    On-premises virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)

    VDI Requirements

    On-premises virtual desktop infrastructureHypervisorNotes
    VMware vSphere 7.0VMware ESXi 7.0Use VMware Horizon View 7.0.3 and later only. Use the latest VMware and NVIDIA drivers. See the VMware and NVIDIA GRID websites for the most current driver versions.
    Citrix Virtual Apps* and Desktops 7 1912 LTSRVMware ESXi 7.0*Deployment via Citrix Virtual Apps is not supported. Use the latest Citrix and NVIDIA drivers. See the Citrix and NVIDIA GRID websites for the most current driver versions.

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