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From reading the front page, I have absolutely no idea what this is. A cross-compiler? A build tool? Some pre-package presets?

In what language will I code? Can I reuse code across platforms? Is all this trouble Solved. when I use Fabric?

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Exactly my thoughts. There are so many dev tools out there but I can never figure out what they actually do by reading the info on their landing pages. All I get is a bunch of buzzwords and empty promises.

Somewhere buried deep in this "experience" is a way to add twitter sign in to my iOS app. Can you just give me a link to the darn framework so I can download it and drag it into my XCode project like EVERY OTHER FRAMEWORK I EVER USE HAS? Why must I install some toolbar client and inject some script into my Xcode build process. Somehow these things are talking to each other. It got me into this state where it broke my iOS app build. And now im stuck.

I share your frustration. All it does it install a framework in the root of the project, then add a build script that calls `<executable> <some ID> <some other ID>`. Boths IDs are available on the website, so you can set up crashlytics without using their stupid toolbar.

The framework's available here as a cocoapod: http://cocoapods.org/?q=crashlytics

Yeah, using "platform" for just a bunch of libraries that are vaguely related is quite linkbaitish. This doesn't solve any of the issues a 'platform' or framework would solve. It just gives you an easy way to link said libraries to your project.

In other words, this is just native advertising.

That appears to be an invention of whoever posted this. They do not call it a platform on the site anywhere I can see.

Great questions and apologies that you're not getting all of those answers from the linked landing page.

There is a lot more information on the developer site http://dev.twitter.com/fabric and there are also now replays of the sessions from Flight available https://twittercommunity.com/t/missed-flight-we-got-you-cove... (YouTube playlist, blog posts and livestream replay linked from there)

They appear to be libraries for iOS and android.

No WP support from a tech company of this scale? Simply embarrassing.

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