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
