The requirements for hardware and system are heavily dependent on the type of application being created by the Softphone SDK. At minimum, CounterPath recommends the following:
Development Environment
| Windows | macOS | Linux | iOS | Android | Xamarin | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Language | C++ .NET Java |
Objective-C Swift |
C++ | C++ Objective-C Swift .NET (with Xamarin) |
Java .NET (with Xamarin) |
.NET |
| Operating System | Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 and above | macOS 10.13 and above | CentOS 7 | macOS 10.13 and above | Windows 7 SP1 and above | Windows 7 SP1 and above |
| Memory | Minimum: 4 GB Optimal: 8 GB |
Minimum: 4 GB Optimal: 8 GB |
Minimum: 2 GB Optimal: 4 GB |
Minimum: 4 GB Optimal: 8 GB |
Minimum: 4 GB Optimal: 8 GB |
Minimum: 4 GB Optimal: 8 GB |
| Hard Disk | 2 GB | 2 GB | 2 GB | 2 GB | 2 GB | 2 GB |
| Framework and SDK | .NET 4.0 (for .NET SDK) JDK 7 or later (for Java SDK) |
devtoolset-6 | iOS 11 SDK or later | JDK 7 or later Android SDK 26 or later |
Xamarin | |
| Development Software | Windows Visual Studio 2015 | Mac XCode 10 or later | Mac XCode 10 or later | Android Studio 3.5 | Mac: Visual Studio for Mac 8.3 or later, Xcode 10 or later. Windows: Visual Studio 2019 | |
| Processor | Intel Core i5 | Intel Core i3 | Intel Core i3 | Intel Core i3 | Intel Core i5 | Intel Core i5 |
Runtime Environment
| Windows | macOS | Linux | iOS | Android | Xamarin | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating System | Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 and above | Mac OS X 10.13 and above | CentOS 7 | iOS 11+ | 5.0 and above | iOS 10 and above or Android 5.0 and above |
| Target architecture | i386 and x64 (via WOW64, Microsoft's compatibility layer). | x86_64 | x86_64 | x86_64 armv7 arm64 |
armeabi armeabi-v7a arm64 x86 via libhoudini |
For iOS: x86_64, armv7, arm64 For Android: armeabi, armeabi-v7a, arm64, x86 via libhoudini |
| Redistributable packages | Visual C++ 2015 |