Building Mobile Apps Using Intel® XDK

Explore how to set up bootstrap for mobile apps with Intel® XDK, install the framework, and build a template page using components like icons, buttons, and badges.

Explore the Topcoat framework’s design-focused, high-performance approach, featuring light and dark themes, a rich set of components, benchmarks, and device-ready demos for desktop, tablet, and mobile apps.

Explore jQuery Mobile, a cross-platform framework widely used by default web developers, with performance concerns noted. View how a Digi-Key mobile app leverages built-in components and renders on different devices.

Explore the Intel app framework for building cross-platform mobile apps with a drag-and-drop app designer, style builder customization, and a rich plugin-driven API.

Learn to create different project types in Intel XDK, including blank, demo, and template projects, using the project menu to name and create, then explore login templates and app designer.

Design with the app designer in Intel XDK, dragging and dropping components without coding, and configuring properties and triggers to navigate pages or run functions.

Explore how to emulate and test mobile apps on a computer using the built-in emulator, debug in a simulator, and simulate devices, geolocation api, compass api, and networking.

Learn to test, debug, and analyze your mobile app by setting up the device, choosing networks, syncing with the server, and using debugging tools to profile performance.

Learn how to build your app for iOS, Android, Windows 8, and web via normal compilers or Cordova, and configure certificates, assets, permissions, and push settings.

Design the demo app with the app designer, set up sdk project, add a welcome header and two buttons, and create a demos page that navigates to the main page.

Learn to configure a mobile app with the Intel XDK using the configuration file, setting id, version, name, description, creator, and whitelisted domains, plus platform-specific icons, splash screens, and plugins.

Learn to use the accelerometer API in Intel XDK to read x, y, z orientation data, display it in a text element, and control updates with watch and clear.

Learn the Intel XDK battery API to monitor battery level and status, handle changes by 1 percent, low and critical events, and display results via a custom script.

Integrate the camera API to take photos or fetch from the gallery, create a camera page with header, footer, and a demos button, and handle success and error messages.

Learn to use the Intel XDK capture API to capture image, video, and audio in a mobile app, and manage results via an array, a for loop, and per-session limits.

Create a compass page in the Intel XDK app, display the magnetic heading in degrees, and use watch and clear buttons to start and stop live heading updates.

Use the connection API, also known as net folk API, to detect online or offline status and inform users when internet access is required.

Learn how the contacts API creates, saves, and edits contacts, including setting the display name and mobile number. Build a simple UI with inputs and a yellow save button.

Learn how the device API in Intel® XDK fetches the device model, os name and version, and unique device id, then integrate via config and Cordova plugins.

Explore the file API to create and write files on the device with a persistent file system, using a browser plugin, a filename and text input, and a writer-driven save.

Learn to implement geolocation in a mobile app with Intel XDK by configuring the geolocation API, watching position during runtime, displaying location data, and controlling with start and stop actions.

Learn how globalization uses user locale data by configuring localization, displaying the local name and first day of the week, and testing with a custom script.

learn to implement the in-app browser using the browser API to open sites inside the app or system browser, using a plugin, input, and trigger actions for full URLs.

Record and manage audio with the media API by creating a media page, wiring up start and stop recording, and handling success and error callbacks.

Build and test native dialogs using the downloads api, implementing alert and prompt triggers, two-button messages, and text input prompts on a new page.

Configure a page and a vibration button using the liberation deliberation API, update the configuration file, and test durations from one second to three seconds.

Conclude the Intel XDK course by applying learned API features to finish your app, and consult the 3.0 documentation for feature examples, plus command line interface tutorials for further learning.