M4 Platform Feature List

Custom UI Creation

• Build your app the way you want it to look, with 100% of your own artistic style and branding.
• No need to follow the cookie-cutter approach, rely on platform UI features, or end up with an
  app that looks like all the rest.
  
  

Full Cross-platform Client

• Build your UI and client functionality once, and deploy for iOS, Android, Blackberry, J2ME, and more.
• Easily support low-end phones to high-end tablet devices, with the same content.
• Easily support the fractured mobile display environment - screen sizes and aspects, resolutions, portrait and landscape.
• Easily support the fractured mobile input environment - touchscreen,
  D-pad, trackball, QWERTY keyboards, in all the various combinations.

 

Graphical Tool for Rapid App Development

• Most applications can be built without
  scripting or custom code
• Rich library of widgets and functional
  pre-made module examples.
• Data model is automatically generated
  and exported for easy integration into
  existing MMO servers.
• Modules can be easily skinned with
  custom graphics, or use a library of
  existing skins.
  
  

Revolutionary On-device Prototyping and Iteration

• Prototype applications able to run on real devices immediately
• Instantly view changes to your application on real devices in real-time

Live Application Updates

• Application changes can be pushed from the server without releasing a new client binary

Messaging Architecture Designed for Mobile,
Connected Apps

• Downloaded content is streamed to the client in the manner appropriate for high-latency cellular networks.
• Caching architecture ensures efficient access to all resources.
• Connected mobile applications perform better.
  
  

Mobile Ad Support

• Easily include banner or richly animated advertising in your app without having to rely on 3rd party ad networks.
  

 

Extensible Client Architecture

• Easily integrate to device features: camera, GPS, gyro, compass, notifications, calendar, etc.
• Full source code license
  
  

Deploy Apps Directly to Mobile Browser Clients using HTML5 (Soon)

 

Mobile Game Support

• Include twitch-style mobile mini-games as part of your client application, with full online gaming support.
• Scripting interface for Lua or Javascript game logic code (Soon)
• 2D physics engine (Soon)
  

 

Cross-platform Push Notification System

• Easily send messages and event notifications to your user community
• Web-based dashboard makes creating and sending messages quick and easy.

Centralized Business Logic Implementation

• Thin client allows you to implement much of your application's logic on the m4Proxy
• Write once and use for all the cross-platform clients
• Common C++ language and familiar development environment (Visual Studio, etc.)
• Protocol translation ability for interfacing to virtually any legacy back-end or online game
• Easily interface to 3rd party web services
• Effectively isolates back-end system enhancements and prevents them from "breaking" mobile clients

Load-balancing Server Infrastructure

• Horizontal scaling allows the infrastructure to grow quickly based on current demands
  
  

Mobile Analytics

• Allows detailed reporting on application usage, user locations, devices, sales, and popularity.
• Web-based dashboard allows you to customize your metrics and view usage as it happens.