Hodentek Mobile

HTML5 is just one of the essential features for HTML based phone apps that provide the scaffolding. You will also need CSS3 to dress it up in more delightful ways and of course JavaScript to power the interactivity of the app without which it is dead in the water. While you could use DOM and vanilla JavaScript, it is lot more easier to use a framework (there is a learning curve), a User Interface Framework which combines JavaScript with CSS to provide a set of programming tools to deliver rich mobile applications. Quite a lot of them use jQuery in one form or another. The frameworks save a lot of development time and effort. There are different kind of devices (iPhones, Androids and Windows Phones) but also different operating systems (iOS, Android, Windows Phone, etc) and it will be desirable if one could use one tool to cover all these variations. This area has developed to the extent that you can develop cross-platform, cross-device (response design!) apps but still there iss...

In a previous post the Intel XDK was described with some details in the context of developing cross-platform apps for smartphones and tablets. The installation of Intel XDK was also described. Herein the details of type of projects that you can create are described. There are several options available for creating projects with Intel XDK. Double click the icon or click the XDK icon on the taskbar to open the Welcome to the Intel XDK Pane as shown. Click on the Visit the Intel XDK Introduction and the Intel XDK Documentation gets  displayed. This is quite a comprehensive documentation that discusses all aspects of Intel XDK including developing cross-platform HTML5 based apps for smart phones and tablets; deploying to devices; monetization etc. In the left hand side there are different ways to work with projects. You could create a blank project but then you do not get many of the design editors you find in others such as Start with App Designer etc. If you ...