AppCan Open Source: Sharing Technology Value to Connect Enterprises and App Developers

In today's IT world, the brightest lights come from software open source companies, such as Red Hat, which has become a billion-dollar company, and Facebook, which has pushed the open source model to the world. The market is also positive about open source. According to Gartner research, in 2013, open source software with lower costs will grow at a rate of 22.4% to reach a scale of 8.1 billion US dollars. More and more practices have shown that open source is the inevitable path for software manufacturers to become world-class companies.

According to a CIO survey conducted by a famous media on open source, 38% of CIOs believe that the advantage of open source is strong development autonomy, and the rest are: 33% cost savings, 13% good security, 10% extensive technical support, etc. CIOs, development teams, and individual developers have all set their sights on open source software. Using open source software, companies can build IT systems more freely, save costs, and reduce risks; and for individual developers, choosing open source software undoubtedly increases the chances of winning, and can develop mobile applications in a customized manner. Looking at the domestic IT field, there is no shortage of cutting-edge manufacturers like AppCan, which are constantly exploring the value of open source, constantly researching open source products, and regard open source as the company's mission.

Open source is the first step, establishing rules is the second step

Open source is not only about opening the source code, but more importantly, it is about improving the source code in an orderly and continuous manner. When talking about open source, Wang Guochun, founder of AppCan, believes that "the core of open source is to establish a standardized and long-term system with source code as the core under the spirit of freedom, and to build relationships between developers in the virtual world."

AppCan has been working in the field of domestic mobile application development for many years and has made many innovative moves around open source. For example, the free + open operation ideas, plug-in source code open source, and free training mechanism. The open source of AppCan mobile engine in December 2014 was a landmark event. At present, the number of registered developers of AppCan has reached 700,000, and the number of corporate customers has reached 6,000. Open source will bring huge innovation and collaboration efficiency. Open source is only the first step. All actions for the sake of open source are invalid. The maintenance mechanism after open source is crucial. When everyone gathers materials, the flames will rise. AppCan will increase investment in multiple directions such as engines, plug-ins and applications. On the one hand, the official will increase research and development efforts and release corresponding materials regularly every week and every month; on the other hand, AppCan will form a core developer team and encourage developers to share technical experience in the form of rewards. Open source will eventually expand the influence of AppCan, not only contributing to the mobile developer community, but also attracting positive energy from the community, so as to better improve the version, provide higher-quality services to users, and achieve the common growth of developers and AppCan.

Open source accelerates the optimization of commercial versions and is the preferred choice for building enterprise mobility

There is no doubt that enterprise mobile information construction has become a "first-level IT strategy" that must be implemented. IDC predicts that the market size of China's enterprise-level mobile application solutions will reach US$1.63 billion in 2014, with a compound growth rate of more than 30% from 2014 to 2017. When choosing a mobile information platform, enterprise CIOs will focus on products with high freedom and maturity. Starting from Alibaba's proposal to de-IOE, the industry has completely subverted the traditional product model, and the underlying IT architecture has also become a major object of transformation by Internet thinking. The open source platform is scalable, easy to maintain, and has a high degree of freedom. It abandons high and expensive costs and is more in line with the needs of today's enterprises.

AppCan is one of the few manufacturers in China that takes into account both the B2B and B2D markets. After the mobile engine is open sourced, enterprises can customize their needs according to their own needs without over-reliance on external manufacturers, which greatly reduces operating costs and risks. Based on AppCan's standardized open source platform, enterprises can freely choose partners to avoid being "kidnapped" by manufacturers.

Open source platforms are more conducive to mobile developers' innovation and entrepreneurship

AppCan has always adopted the free and open Internet spirit to serve developers, constantly honing its products and helping developers innovate and start businesses. Many front-end developers have changed their fate through AppCan, quickly and efficiently entering the mobile App market, successfully transforming from web staff and webmasters to mobile entrepreneurs, and establishing their own niche markets; there are also many young people with dreams who quit their jobs to start their own businesses after meeting AppCan. These developers are very typical. In combination with the needs of developers, AppCan proactively chooses to open the mobile engine source code to help developers respond to market changes more flexibly.

AppCan continues to integrate existing resources to facilitate developers' innovation and entrepreneurship. Specifically, the advantages of the AppCan platform include:

·Open source: plug-in open source, mobile engine open source;

Platform technology: low threshold, easy operation, fast iteration, and emphasis on R&D;

· Maturity: stable team, large number of customers/users, stable capital chain;

·Service system: quick response, dedicated personnel, front-line technical answers, free training mechanism;

Extended value: Enter the enterprise market and obtain financial and technical support.

From a technical perspective, AppCan encapsulates multimedia APIs, interface APIs, terminal device call APIs, network APIs, third-party APIs, etc. through JavaScript APIs, and can call the core functions of mobile devices in a very simple way, including cameras, address books, multimedia, files and networks, as well as Baidu maps, Alipay, WeChat sharing/payment, Weibo sharing and other functions. With AppCan, developers can use familiar front-end development technologies to write apps that are comparable to native effects. After open source, native developers can obtain all the code of the AppCan application engine, use the newly added custom engine upload function, develop their own application engine according to their needs, and complete mobile projects more freely and flexibly.

In today's ever-changing mobile Internet, open source is the inevitable destination of IT technology development. However, the road to open source is very long. Open source means taking on more social responsibilities, requiring a clear profit model, a fast-responding technical team, and a forward-looking decision-making layer. AppCan's open source will catch up with the latest technology boom and help enterprises and developers move forward quickly.