XDK: A web-based mobile application programming tool

Intel has just released its first version of Web-based programming tools to help developers develop mobile apps for Android and iOS. This free software, called Intel XDK, is actually a repackaging version of the Appmobi software that Intel acquired this February, so it's not new. Developers can use this software to develop HTML5 based applications and to be used in mobile devices.

Intel released XDK at the IDF Developer's Forum in Beijing this week. Perhaps Intel releases programming tools as a very special message, but in fact Intel is more historical in helping programmers write apps. Appmobi technology brings Cross-platform features so developers can reach a broader market.

Intel's previous development tools are designed to involve the bottom of the chip, but Cross-platform XDK are web-based tools, meaning that this is a chip-independent programming tool, as long as the browser engine executes the code. Why does Intel bother to release such a development tool that can run on other architecture chips? The reason is that the mobile market has been controlled by arm, Intel here is the role of Challenger, more Web applications to achieve cross-platform not only for the arm chip, but also for the x86 platform.