New Free Intel® HTML5 Development Environment

Intel acquired appMobi*'s HTML5 tools in February and make the tools easier to use and more robust.

As part of Intel's commitment, The following feature added:

•Windows* 8 and Windows* 8 Phone support which instantly increases your reach to more users and types of devices
•Windows* 8 and Windows* 8 Phone support in the emulator and build system
•New app creation wizard to make it easier to start your next project from samples or from scratch

Same familiar, powerful cross-platform tools, new names, more capability, and it works with the full set of appMobi* services.
•Go cross-platform: Write once with the Intel® XDK cross-platform development kit
•Jumpstart development: Use the App Starter wizard to create an application
•Leverage cloud: Build HTML5 apps for iOS*, Android*, Amazon*, Nook*, Facebook*, and now, Windows* 8 Store and Windows* 8 Phone Store
•Support: tools, technical guides, tutorials, videos, samples

Visit http://appcenter.html5tools-software.intel.com/ to registered with Intel now.

Intel XDK

Set javaws (Java Web Start) for running appMobi XDK on Ubuntu Linux

Once you install appMobi XDK in Google Chrome, running on Linux(such as Ubuntu). MAY BE it cannot run due to error in javaws (Java Web Start). It's because the default javaws of Ubuntu Linux is from openJDK, you have to set the javaws of Oracle JDK.

Suppose you have installed Oracle JDK correctly. The follow steps show how to set javaws using Oracle JDK.

First of all, Check your installed javaws. Open a Terminal and enter the command.
$ sudo update-alternatives --config javaws

Normally, you have only ONE javaws in aternative javaws list.

You have to re-assign javaws use alternative from Oracle JDK. In my case, my jdk installed at /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_02/, and my javaws is installed at /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_02/bin/javaws.

Enter the command:
$ sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/javaws javaws /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_02/bin/javaws 1

Finally, re-enter the command:
$ sudo update-alternatives --config javaws

and select the expected javaws in the list.

appMobi HTML5 XDK

The appMobi XDK is the world’s first HTML5 powered mobile application development tool. With it, you can create, debug and build customized, robust HTML5 apps in hours. appMobi's cloud-based build system turns your HTML5-based apps into 100% native API-compliant mobile apps for iOS or Android, or you can deploy them as webapps or Chrome apps. All from a single code base!

It can be install from Google Chrome Extention. To know more visit: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/onmkoldigcfmebcinpmineoadckalllb


If you install it on a machine running Ubuntu Linux (or others using javaws of openJDK), you have to set javaws using Oracle JDK version. Refer Set javaws (Java Web Start) for running appMobi XDK on Ubuntu Linux