Hodentek Mobile

I was following Intel XDK for more than a year   with many posts on my blog for mobile devices and participating in Intel's forums.  I have observed that its emphasis was slowly changing and I started looking for alternatives. There are programs for which you need to pay, which I am not ready, as I do not derive any revenue from what I do. I am looking for free programs. Progressively Intel XDK has been shifting their focus to mostly Intel IoT devices. The App Designer support does not exist anymore except for a few features in the interface. The Interface as you knew it is now mostly geared for IoT devices. Intel XDK forum suggests that there are more tools freely available (on the Internet) that may do equally well and a strong recommendation for using Cordova CLI. Well one cannot expect a tool to live eternally and things do change. What is needed on the part of developers\users is to turn somewhat nomadic and look for new pastures. Here is a link to Apache CORDOVA ...

In my previous post  http://hodentekmobile.blogspot.com/2014/08/creating-projects-with-intel-xdk-part-2.html    I covered the various project options that you can choose for designing your apps that can be accessed by multiple devices, iPhones, Windows Phones, iPads etc. In this post I describe the steps to create a ListView App with the Intel XDK using the published templates. A list view consists of a list and when you click on one of the list items, you get a detailed page related to the item. This is a very common type of application. Download the source code for the template from github here: https://github.com/gomobile/template-list-view-ad The following note is from the above site: 'App Designer Ready-This template can be used for simple list view application that has a main view with scrollable list and detail view for each list item, this template can be used for creating applications similar to Mail app, Messages app or Twitter* app' After downlo...