Talk:Software development kit

I think my initial stab here at SDKs is pretty weak. Please add, delete and modify to your heart's content! TIA -Frecklefoot

Picture
Someone added an image of a Sega dev board to this article. Its relevance is tenuous at best, so I've removed it. Pburka 00:09, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Console dev kits?
Nothing in this article about console dev kits? Shame... --150.237.47.3 11:13, 25 May 2006 (UTC)


 * An SDK usually consists purely of software. A console dev kit, on the other hand, consists of special software AND hardware.  Therefore, they are not considered SDKs. &mdash; Frecklefoot | Talk 13:40, 25 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I take it as an umbrella term. Since this page refers to both Software and Driver development kits, I redirected the term "devkit" to this page. Lest you feel that console development kits are sufficiently different from other SDKs, you're welcome to make the clarification in a new edit. — Down10 T / C 22:37, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

DDK & PDK
I have removed the abbreviation of PDK, because they are not recognized standards or generally accepted terms used in the industry such as the GNU Project. --Ramu50 (talk) 15:57, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Contents of an SDK
I want to add the following to the article [end insert]

Contents of an SDK

At a minimum, a well-crafted SDK consists of:
 * Compiled libraries and/or source code
 * Documentation describing the usage of the kit
 * One or more example application with source code illustrating the usage of the SDK.

[end insert]

I'll proceed with this addition unless I hear otherwise within a week.

Nick Alexeev (talk) 20:39, 2 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Unless you have a verifiable reference for that information, it's original research, which is prohibited here on Wikipedia. As it stands, it sounds like an opinion, which is very subjective, also frowned upon. If you find a verifiable reference, you'll have to precede it with something like, "according to so-and-so..." &mdash; Fr&epsilon;ckl&epsilon;fσσt | Talk 17:05, 3 March 2014 (UTC)


 * The proposed text is based on my own experience of using multiple SDK from different vendors over the course of 10 years, and on consensus with my immediate colleagues. Nick Alexeev 00:35, 4 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Which is exactly why it shouldn't be added: you and your immediate colleagues aren't verifiable references. See WP:Verifiability for more information. &mdash; Fr&epsilon;ckl&epsilon;fσσt | Talk 14:35, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Surveillance and Big Brother?
There's a major series published in the New York Times this week - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-cell-phone.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy By Stuart A. Thompson and Charlie Warzel (DEC. 19, 2019) - and it says these are surreptitiously inserted into phones and apps and crucial in undermining our privacy. If this is true, should this article not have a section on this issue? Here's the relevant extract: "Much of the concern over location data has focused on telecom giants like Verizon and AT&T, which have been selling location data to third parties for years. Last year, Motherboard, Vice’s technology website, found that once the data was sold, it was being shared to help bounty hunters find specific cellphones in real time. The resulting scandal forced the telecom giants to pledge they would stop selling location movements to data brokers.

Yet no law prohibits them from doing so.

Location data is transmitted from your phone via software development kits, or S.D.Ks. as they’re known in the trade. The kits are small programs that can be used to build features within an app. They make it easy for app developers to simply include location-tracking features, a useful component of services like weather apps. Because they’re so useful and easy to use, S.D.K.s are embedded in thousands of apps. Facebook, Google and Amazon, for example, have extremely popular S.D.K.s that allow smaller apps to connect to bigger companies’ ad platforms or help provide web traffic analytics or payment infrastructure.

But they could also sit on an app and collect location data while providing no real service back to the app. Location companies may pay the apps to be included — collecting valuable data that can be monetized.

“If you have an S.D.K. that’s frequently collecting location data, it is more than likely being resold across the industry,” said Nick Hall, chief executive of the data marketplace company VenPath." 2A02:8084:6A22:4980:98B5:3818:5D34:24 (talk) 23:49, 21 December 2019 (UTC)