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The Power of Location

ArcGIS is a mapping platform accessible to developers. It offers an effective way to create and manage geospatial applications. Regardless of your development experience, build web, mobile, and desktop apps that incorporate mapping, visualization, analysis, and more.

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Building Apps

Use ArcGIS to build and deploy apps with spatial capabilities that will inspire your users.

Extending the Platform

Extend ArcGIS products with your own custom functionality and script common workflows.

Accessing Content & Services

Access to a variety of authoritative and curated content and services for use inside your apps.

Esri GeoDev Meetups

Looking to connect with fellow geospatial developers? So are we! Come spend some time talking "location" with us. Find a GeoDev Meetup near you.

ArcGIS Runtime - Quartz Beta

New and updated, experience and test drive Quartz before anyone else! Dive into Esri's newest developer SDKs for iOS, Android, Java, and introducing Xamarin.

ArcGIS API 4.0 for JavaScript

Try out Esri's next generation JavaScript API. It sports a clean design and cutting-edge capabilities for building compelling 2D and 3D web apps.

ArcGIS Marketplace

After you’ve put the finishing touches on your app, get it discovered by making it available in the ArcGIS Marketplace.

Esri Startup Program

The Esri Startup Program is a free three year program that gives developers and emerging businesses the tools to build mapping and location capabilities into their products.

Esri Partner Program

You can expand your technology offerings, increase sales, and enable other developers to do amazing work with geography and GIS when you become an Esri Partner.

Go to the Source

Esri is on GitHub. Browse our open source code and get started quickly using the ArcGIS platform. Check out samples, templates, viewers, and solutions built with a variety of languages and APIs.

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May 9, 2016

ArcGIS Runtime SDK for Android v10.2.8 released

We are excited to announce a new release to the ArcGIS Runtime SDK for Android v10.2.8.  This patch release updates the SDK OpenSSL to version 1.0.2g to address security vulnerabilities.  See this Google FAQ for more information. To apply this … Continue reading

May 3, 2016

It’s here! ArcGIS API for JavaScript 4.0 Released

It is with great pleasure we announce the first release of the 4.x series of the ArcGIS API for JavaScript. You can now starting building web apps with the production release of the ArcGIS API 4.0 for JavaScript! Version 4.0 … Continue reading

April 28, 2016

New ArcGIS Pro SDK Learning Resources Available

Some good news on Pro SDK learning resources – a number of informative videos have just been posted online this week — Dev Summit sessions and a new Live Training Seminar recording. The 2016 Esri Developer Summit technical sessions are … Continue reading

April 27, 2016

ArcGIS Online Live Feeds Update

The Esri Live Feeds team has just released a new layer and added it to the ArcGIS Online Living Atlas, and also made some improvements to existing layers. In this post we will provide an overview of the updates. USA Weather … Continue reading