Actually I clicked "Send" too early. A few comments on Andrew's list:
- We use node-webkit, not CEF. - We historically have 2 UI builder tools. One indeed uses Intel's App Framework. Another one (called App Designer) gives an additional choice of using Bootstrap, jQuery Mobile or Topcoat. - XDK is not open source itself - true, but I do have hopes we'll start contributing to Cordova. - Developer license essentially preserves ownership right with developer. We had a question at our support forum at some point which resulted in a nice readable description - https://forums.html5dev-software.intel.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=5472 -----Original Message----- From: Lunev, Serge [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 10:15 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Intel XDK == Cordova IDE? Thanks for this note, Andrew! And I guess it's time to introduce myself at this point. My name is Serge Lunev and I am engineering manager for Intel XDK Andrew is talking about below. We did make a lot of changes to align ourselves from the proprietary AppMobi technology to Cordova and plan to continue doing so. Some other people from Intel XDK team (e.g. Leo Treggiari) are also on this list. So if you are interested to learn more about Intel XDK - feel free to let us know. And we certainly look forward for increasing the connection and collaboration with Cordova project :) Best, Serge @lunarserge -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrew Grieve Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 10:01 AM To: dev Subject: Intel XDK == Cordova IDE? In case this is news to anyone else, Intel's XDK has been morphing into a Cordova IDE over the past year (from their custom runtime, which they now call "legacy build system"). Here's their overview: https://software.intel.com/en-us/html5/articles/using-the-cordova-for-android-ios-etc-build-option Here's my tldr version: It's an IDE built with CEF that: - Uses Brackets as its editor (including it's live preview feature that enables live code changes via DevTools API) - Uses Ripple to emulate within the app - Includes a visual UI designer that works it's own UI framework "App Framework" (https://github.com/01org/appframework) - Uses its own cloud build system to build for each platform (for free) - Also supports building chrome apps and web apps - Supports using Crosswalk - Has a developer companion app call App Preview (https://software.intel.com/en-us/html5/app-preview-overview) - Has a very nice Cordova Plugin UI (https://software.intel.com/en-us/html5/articles/adding-third-party-plugins-to-your-xdk-cordova-app) - Supports remote update of your assets via AppMobi (http://docs.appmobi.com/index.php/live-update/) - NOT open source, and they haven't been involved at all in Cordova development (besides the Crosswalk team helping us out a bit) - Haven't read through their developer license agreement, but we be curious to know if there's any notables there. Some other things: Relevant to minSdk <preference> https://software.intel.com/en-us/html5/articles/cordova-for-android-build-options iOS options that we should support: https://software.intel.com/en-us/html5/articles/cordova-for-ios-build-options
