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 ...

This post is continued from here: http://hodentek.blogspot.com/2015/04/getting-dream-factory-backend-part-2.html If you have seen this screen than you have created an instance of the DSP and you are the Administrator of this instance. Now you have to get the API-Key which when called from your side orchestrates the application. There are some restrictions regarding the name of Application ID you choose. I chose something I could remember. You also need to choose which kind of application you are going to create. There are two options. I chose the one that uses browser based using HTML/CSS. May be next time around I will play with native apps.   Click Continue. You are taken to the Home page of the instance as shown. The next choice to make is the location where you want to develop you application, the choices are locally on your computer or on another platform such as Azure, Amazon etc. Even if you have a subscription, my suggestion is to develop locally and when...