The Legato Application Framework is designed to simplify embedded IoT development and connect your applications to the cloud and network services. But how do we do that? We've developed a set of conventions and tools that let you easily hook up your custom apps to existing service apps (platform services) which then in turn hook up to the OS and hardware through an adapter. When you are developing your apps for a target you really only need to worry about how to connect to that service and send or receive data.

This section explains all of our concepts and how to integrate the concepts into developing your apps and building your system. Refer to our glossary to define some of our basic terminology.

Develop

At the heart of every app is one or more components, the component is the collection of code or other files that are functionally related and need to exist in the same space. Components communicate with each other and/or other apps through interfaces. The following sections explain our strategies to use components and interfaces in developing your apps:

Section	Description
Definition Files	Use Definition Files to build systems, apps, and components
Components	Learn about components and how to integrate your code into one
Interfaces	Use interfaces to facilitate component and app communication
Inter-process Communication	Use IPC to communicate between different processes
Event-driven Programming	Use Event-driven Programming to trigger callback functions
API Files	Work with the API files to develop Apps
C Language Standards	Learn about the C Language Coding Standards used
Internationalization	Learn about our basic Internationalization standards

Runtime

Once you have created your component(s) and app(s) you will be building them into a system which includes the Legato Runtime Environment. This system can then be installed on your target to and your apps will run along with any service apps that you have included within the Legato Runtime Environment. The runtime environment includes daemons to help you monitor and manage your apps running on your target.

Section	Description
Runtime Architecture	Learn about the daemons that administrate and monitor your apps
Security	Learn about the Legato Security model
App/System Configuration	Learn about our Configuration Management model for systems and apps
Logging	Learn how Legato deals with logging
Updates	Learn the different methods of updating your target
Power Management	Learn about power management strategies within apps