System requirements for 300.0

This page lists system requirements for the 300.0 release of ArcGIS Maps SDK for Qt. The framework, platform, or operating system version and updates listed below are supported as long as it is also currently supported by its provider for general or public use.

Developing apps on Windows

Using Windows as your development environment, you can develop apps for Windows and Android. See the Deploying apps to Android section later in this document for a list of additional software needed for Android app development.

Supported operating systems:

• Windows 11 (64-bit) version 23H2 (build 22631) or higher
• Windows Server 2025 Standard and Datacenter
• Windows Server 2022 Standard and Datacenter

Software	Minimum version	Notes
Qt Framework for Windows	6.8.2 or higher, MSVC2022 (64-bit)
Qt Creator	18.0 or higher	Using the most recent version Qt Creator is recommended.
DirectX	See Video graphics adapter (below)	DirectX is the recommended rendering API.
OpenGL	4.1 or higher	Qt Widgets only supports OpenGL. SceneView requires 3.2 or higher. LocalSceneView requires 4.5 or higher.
OpenGL ES	3.2 or higher	When working with 3D scene views.
MSVC Toolset	14.44 or higher	Deployed apps must deploy all Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 DLLs required to run.
Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 - 2022 Redistributable (x64)	Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022 Redistributable version 14.44.35207 minimum.

Hardware	Version	Notes
CPU Type	x86 family	Hyper-threading (HHT) or Multi-core recommended.
Video graphics adapter	DirectX 11 - Feature Level 11 1 Direct3D 11.12	See the Rendering section later in this document.

¹ For 3D scene views: DirectX 11 with Feature Level 11 is required.
² For high-performance analysis:

• Direct3D 12 with feature level 11.1 (or feature level 11.0 with Resource Binding Tier 2).
• Shader models 5.1 and above.

Notes

An operating system can only be supported if it is also supported by the Qt Framework from The Qt Group. It is recommended to use the latest supported version of the operating system. Learn more about Qt licensing terms and conditions at The Qt Group.

Developing Android apps that use the high-performance analysis APIs requires a physical device. Running such apps on an Android emulator is not supported.

Developing apps on Linux

Using Linux as your development environment, you can develop apps for Linux and Android. See the Deploying apps to Android section later in this document for a list of additional software needed for Android app development. Also review the Qt documentation Qt for Linux for further details.

Linux	Minimum version	Notes
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (64-bit)	8.6 or higher	GCC 10 is the minimum version compiler.
Ubuntu (64-bit)	22.04 LTS and 24.04 LTS	Ubuntu Releases
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (64-bit)	15 LTS SP4 or higher

Software	Minimum version	Notes
Qt Framework for Linux	6.8.2 or higher
Qt Creator	18.0 or higher	Using the most recent version Qt Creator is recommended.
OpenGL	See Video graphics adapter in the table below.	Using Mesa software rendering is not supported with the ArcGIS Maps SDK for Qt.
OpenGL ES	3.2 or higher	When working with 3D scene views.

Hardware	Version	Notes
CPU Type	x86 family	Hyper-threading (HHT) or Multi-core recommended.
Video graphics adapter	OpenGL 2.1 for 2D map views, 3.2 for SceneView, 4.5 for LocalSceneView Shader Model 1.2; Vulkan 1.1 for high-performance analysis	Hardware video adapter is required. Be sure to use the latest available driver.

Notes

An operating system can only be supported if it is also supported by the Qt Framework from The Qt Group. It is recommended to use the latest supported version of the operating system. Learn more about Qt licensing terms and conditions at The Qt Group.

ArcGIS Maps SDK for Qt and its deployments are only supported on CPUs that adhere to the x86 architecture.

The operating system binary must not be modified. Esri does not provide support if products are installed on the developer's release of an operating system.

Linux patches from Ubuntu will be supported as long as the patches are from Ubuntu without any modification to the latest kernel/glibc version.

Developing Android apps that use the high-performance analysis APIs requires a physical device. Running such apps on an Android emulator is not supported.

Developing apps on macOS

Using macOS as your development environment, you can develop apps for macOS, iOS, and Android. See the Deploying apps to Android and the Deploying apps to iOS sections later in this document for a list of additional software needed for Android and iOS app development.

Supported operating systems:

• macOS 26 (Tahoe)
• macOS 15 (Sequoia)
• macOS 14 (Sonoma)

Supported architectures:

• Apple Mac computer with Intel processor : x86-64

• Apple Mac computer with Apple silicon

Software	Minimum version	Notes
Qt Framework for macOS (OS X)	6.8.2 or higher
Qt Creator	18.0 or higher	Using the most recent version Qt Creator is recommended.
Xcode	15.3 or higher	Including Xcode Command Line Tools. Xcode Release Notes
Metal	See Video graphics adapter (below)	Metal is the recommended rendering API.
OpenGL	4.1 or higher	Qt Widgets only supports OpenGL.

Hardware	Version	Notes
CPU Type	Intel and Apple Silicon are supported	Hyper-threading (HHT) or Multi-core recommended.
Video graphics adapter	Metal 3.0 for Sonoma	See the Rendering section later in this document.

Notes

An operating system can only be supported if it is also supported by the Qt Framework from The Qt Group. It is recommended to use the latest supported version of the operating system. Learn more about Qt licensing terms and conditions at The Qt Group.

Deploying apps to Android

Supported operating systems:

Minimum supported version: Android 9, Pie (API level 28) ; Maximum supported version: Android 16 (API level 36) . High-performance analysis requires a minimum of Android 12 (API level 31) .

Software	Minimum version	Notes
Qt Framework for Android	6.8.2 or higher
Qt Creator	18.0 or higher	Using the most recent version Qt Creator is recommended.
Android SDK Tools	28 or higher
Android SDK Build Tools	31.0.0 or higher
NDK	26b or higher
Java Development Kit (JDK)	17 or higher

To support map view and scene views

ArcGIS Maps SDK for Qt uses OpenGL ES technology on Android to render 2D map views and 3D scene views. Rendering in a map view uses OpenGL ES 3.0 or above if available on the device. Otherwise, it uses OpenGL ES 2.0 or above. Rendering in SceneView or LocalSceneView requires OpenGL ES 3.2. High-performance analysis APIs require Vulkan 1.1.

Notes

Android arm-v7a, arm64-v8a, x86, and x86_64 architectures are supported.

An operating system can only be supported if it is also supported by the Qt Framework from The Qt Group. It is recommended to use the latest supported version of the operating system. Learn more about Qt licensing terms and conditions at The Qt Group.

Deploying apps to iOS

Supported operating systems:

• iOS/iPadOS 26
• iOS/iPadOS 18
• iOS/iPadOS 17

Supported architectures:

• Apple Mac computer with Intel processor : x86-64

• Apple Mac computer with Apple silicon

Software	Minimum version	Notes
Qt Framework for iOS	6.8.2 or higher
Qt Creator	18.0 or higher	Using the most recent version Qt Creator is recommended.
Xcode	15.3 or higher	Including Xcode Command Line Tools. Xcode Release Notes
iOS Simulator	x64 only

Notes

An operating system can only be supported if it is also supported by the Qt Framework from The Qt Group. It is recommended to use the latest supported version of the operating system. Learn more about Qt licensing terms and conditions at The Qt Group.

OpenGL ES

ArcGIS Maps SDK for Qt uses OpenGL ES technology on Android to render 2D map views and 3D scene views. Rendering in a map view uses OpenGL ES 3.0 or above if available on the device. Otherwise, it uses OpenGL ES 2.0 or above. Rendering in SceneView or LocalSceneView requires OpenGL ES 3.2. High-performance analysis APIs require Vulkan 1.1.

You may need to configure graphics acceleration when using an Android emulator. For more information, see the document Configure hardware acceleration for the Android Emulator.

OpenGL ES 3.0 for exploratory analysis

OpenGL ES 3.0 or above is required if you are using the exploratory analysis tools. These exploratory analysis classes primarily perform work on the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU).

Rendering

ArcGIS Maps SDK for Qt renders 2D maps and 3D scenes with different graphics APIs, depending on the platform. The Qt Rendering Hardware Interface (RHI) for Qt Quick applications defaults to Metal for macOS/iOS, Direct3D on Windows, OpenGL on Linux, and OpenGL ES on Android. When developing Qt Quick apps for macOS/iOS or Windows, you will need to include Metal or Direct3D shaders respectively or force the use of OpenGL.

The following table lists the OS and rendering engine combinations supported.

View / UI Combination	Windows	Linux	iOS	Android	macOS
MapView / SceneView + Qt Quick (QML UI)	Direct3D	OpenGL	Metal	OpenGL ES	Metal
LocalSceneView + Qt Quick (QML UI)	Direct3D	OpenGL	Metal	OpenGL ES	Metal
MapView / SceneView + Qt Widgets	OpenGL	OpenGL	N/A	N/A	OpenGL
LocalSceneView + Qt Widgets	Direct3D	OpenGL	N/A	N/A	Metal

See the Deployment page for information on how to include these additional shaders within your apps.

Secure Socket Layer (SSL) support for https

This API requires SSL support to make network requests over https using the Qt Framework. The Qt Framework supports various SSL backends per platform, for example Schannel on Windows, secure-transport on Apple platforms, OpenSSL on Linux, etc. The following Qt documentation provides additional details for SSL configuration and deployment with Qt.

• Secure Socket Layers (SSL) Classes
• Adding OpenSSL Support for Android
• Retrieve the platform's available backends using QSslSocket
• Set the app's active backends using QSslSocket

Minimum recommended hardware

Apps built with ArcGIS Maps SDK for Qt can be deployed to a wide variety of hardware that meet the software system requirements. The tables below outline the minimum recommended hardware to achieve good performance on desktop platforms and mobile devices.

Desktop platforms

Hardware	Minimum Recommended
Processor	Windows and Linux: 2.6 Ghz Intel i7, 6-core / 3.6 Ghz AMD Ryzen7, 6-core. Mac: M1 Apple Silicon
RAM	Maps (2D): 16GB Scenes (3D): 32GB High-performance analysis: 32GB
GPU	NVidia Quadro/AMD Radeon Maps (2D): 2GB GDDR6 Scenes (3D): 4-8GB GDDR6 High-performance analysis: 8GB GDDR6
Disk	1TB, SSD Hard Drive

iOS devices

Hardware	Minimum Recommended
Processor	Maps (2D): A11 Bionic processor Scenes (3D): A12 Bionic processor High-performance analysis: A15 Bionic processor
RAM	Maps (2D): 3GB Scenes (3D): 4GB High-performance analysis: 6GB

Android devices

Hardware	Minimum Recommended
Processor	Maps (2D): 6 core processors belonging to the Qualcomm Snapdragon, Samsung Exynos, Google Tensor, Mediatek Dimensity series Scenes (3D): 8 core processors belonging to the Qualcomm Snapdragon, Samsung Exynos, Google Tensor, Mediatek Dimensity series High-performance analysis: 8 core processors belonging to the Qualcomm Snapdragon, Samsung Exynos, Google Tensor, Mediatek Dimensity series
RAM	Maps (2D): 3GB Scenes (3D): 4GB High-performance analysis: 6GB
GPU	Maps (2D): Adreno 620 or Mali G57 equivalent Scenes (3D): Adreno 620 or Mali G57 equivalent High-performance analysis: Adreno 7xx or Mali G6xx series

ArcGIS software and connected services

Use this table to determine the lowest version of the ArcGIS software that supports a specific functionality.

ArcGIS Software	Version	Functionality supported by ArcGIS Maps SDKs for Native Apps
ArcGIS Enterprise	11.4	Support for attribute rules in sync-enabled geodatabases
ArcGIS Enterprise	11.3	Support for new date fields: Date only, Time only, Timestamp offset Big integer and 64-bit ObjectID fields Utility Network Version 7 Edit traceable utility network from a sync-enabled mobile geodatabase Flow direction-based tracing Support for shared templates
ArcGIS Enterprise	11.2	Advanced editing extension license requirement for editing branch-versioned geodatabases with utility network
ArcGIS Enterprise	11	Utility Network version 6 Reconcile branch version support when synchronizing geodatabase or offline map True curves in sync-enabled geodatabases
ArcGIS Enterprise	10.9	Honor scale expression in a dictionary renderer Take a dictionary web style (referenced in a web map) offline Read a dictionary renderer from a web map Subtype group layers Utility Network version 5 Take utility networks offline Named trace configurations Display filters
ArcGIS Enterprise	10.8.1	Read CIM symbols from a web map Nonspatial association queries Utility Network version 4 Aggregated geometry trace result Filter barriers Read and write utility networks from and to webmap Get utility network state Snapping with the geometry editor against polygon and polyline feature service layers requiring edit mode for quantization support. Edit associations
ArcGIS Enterprise	10.8	Standard and advanced Named User licensing Web styles
ArcGIS Enterprise	10.7.1	Scheduled updates to the feature services involved in the preplanned workflow (offline maps)
ArcGIS Enterprise	10.7	Annotation layers Feature linked annotation Utility Network version 3
ArcGIS Enterprise	10.6.1	Offline maps created using the preplanned workflow Feature tiles Branch versioning Support for attribute rules Arcade console function support Prevent subnetwork controller deletion
ArcGIS Enterprise	10.6	Utility Network traces Session management for branch versioned feature services Branch versioned utility network Element and spatial association queries Honor association deletion semantics when editing Honor server logic for feature service client edits Validate utility network topology
ArcGIS Enterprise	10.5	Curves requested by default from feature services
ArcGIS Enterprise	10.4	Advanced parameters for the on-demand workflow (offline maps)
ArcGIS Enterprise	10.3	Web map and scene support Feature services Tiled services Offline maps created using the on-demand workflow
ArcGIS Pro	3.4	Military symbology standards: APP-6(E), MIL-STD-2525D (change 1), and MIL-STD-2525E IPS-aware maps configuration support IPS-aware maps in mobile map packages support fully-disconnected workflows
ArcGIS Pro	3.3	Utility Network version 7 Support for shared templates
ArcGIS Pro	3.0	Utility Network version 6 Publish mobile map packages that specify labels on left or right of a line geometry WiFi based indoor positioning on Android devices
ArcGIS Pro	2.9	Floor aware maps/scenes in mobile map/scene packages Updated military dictionary styles with ORDERED ANCHOR POINTS support Publish mobile map packages with scale-based and alternate symbols on a feature layer with a unique value or class breaks renderer Display filters Offline tracing on stand-alone mobile geodatabase
ArcGIS Pro	2.8	Floor aware web maps and web scenes Read and write display filters from and to webmap
ArcGIS Pro	2.7	Honor scale expression in a dictionary renderer Take a dictionary web style (referenced in a web map) offline Read CIM symbols from a web map Read a dictionary renderer from a web map Utility Network version 5 Take utility networks offline Named trace configurations
ArcGIS Pro	2.6	Online services (for layers and tables) in mobile map and scene packages Publishing web styles Dictionary web styles in mobile map packages Subtype group layers Utility Network version 4 Read and write utility networks from and to webmap Nonspatial association queries Filter barriers
ArcGIS Pro	2.5	Elevation sources can use raster files in a mobile scene package Transportation networks in a mobile scene package Vector tile packages with custom styles in mobile map packages
ArcGIS Pro	2.4	Expiration of mobile map and scene packages (requires the Publisher Extension) Utility Network version 3
ArcGIS Pro	2.3.2	Create a mobile scene package (.mspk)
ArcGIS Pro	2.3	Create annotation layers and publish in a mobile map package Next generation (.loz) locators
ArcGIS Pro	2.2	Create a mobile map package (.mmpk) Utility network (version 2)
ArcMap	10.3	Create Runtime Content

Local Server version compatibility with ArcGIS Pro

For the Local Server 200.8 documentation, see Local Server (200.x).

Local Server is supported on Windows and Linux. Local Server is not supported on Android, iOS, or macOS.

ArcGIS Maps SDK for Qt version	Local Server version	ArcGIS Pro version
300.x	200.8	3.5

Versions of supported specifications

Standards supported in this release include the following:

• Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards:
  • Web Map Service (WMS) versions 1.1.0, 1.1.1, and 1.3.0
  • Web Map Tiled Service (WMTS) version 1.0.0
  • Web Feature Service (WFS) versions 2.0.0 and 2.0.2
  • API Features Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3
  • GeoPackage versions 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2
  • 3D Tiles 1.1
  • KML 2.2

• Military symbology standards:

  • NATO APP-6(B), APP-6(D), and APP-6(E)
  • United States MIL-STD-2525B (change 2), MIL-STD-2525C, MIL-STD-2525D, MIL-STD-2525D (change 1), and MIL-STD-2525E

• International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) standards:

  • S-52 (Specifications for Chart Content and Display Aspects of ECDIS)
  • S-57 (Transfer Standard for Digital Hydrographic Data)
  • S-63 (Data Protection Scheme)

Indexed 3D Scene Layer (I3S)	Maps SDK 3D view type	Esri I3S versions	OGC I3S versions
3D Object Scene Layer	SceneView	1.6, 1.7, 1.8	1.0, 1.1, 1.2
3D Object Scene Layer	LocalSceneView	1.9	1.0, 1.1, 1.2
Integrated Mesh Scene Layer	SceneView	1.6, 1.7, 1.8	1.0, 1.1, 1.2
Integrated Mesh Scene Layer	LocalSceneView	1.9	1.0, 1.1, 1.2
Point Cloud Scene Layer	SceneView	1.6, 2.0	1.1, 1.2
Point Scene Layer	SceneView	1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9	1.0
Point Scene Layer	LocalSceneView	1.9	1.0
Building Scene Layer	SceneView	Not supported	Not supported
Building Scene Layer	LocalSceneView	1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9	Not supported
Voxel Scene Layer	Both	Not supported	Not supported

On-premises virtualization

On-premises virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)

VDI Requirements

On-premises virtual desktop infrastructure	Notes
VMware vSphere (ESXi) 7.x VMware vSphere (ESXi) 8.x	Use the latest VMware and NVIDIA drivers. Refer to the VMware and NVIDIA websites for the most current versions.
Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 2203 LTSR	Use the latest VMware and NVIDIA drivers. Refer to the VMware and NVIDIA websites for the most current versions. Esri supports Citrix Virtual Desktops. Citrix Virtual Apps is not recommended or supported with ArcGIS Maps SDKs for Native Apps.

Related topics

• Release notes for 300.0
• Install and set up
• Display a map tutorial