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What are some good Intel XDK alternatives?

With Intel changing the focus of their Intel XDK Editor and deprecating lots of important features like their ondevice debugger, what are some good free alternatives to develop cordova/phonegap apps?

Features this editor should have:

  • Plugin management like the Intel XDK

  • Build settings and Build export (apk and ipa)

  • Play Store Publish tools

  • Certificate support allowing to create f.e. Apple .p12 directly

  • Support for ios, android AND windows 10

Solution

  • I develop cordova application more then year, I did it by Visual Studio 2015, WebStorm and Xcode. And I suppose you need to make a choice:

    • As far as I know only Xcode (https://developer.apple.com/xcode/) has App Store Publish tools

    • Support for ios, android AND windows 10 -> only WebStorm

    • Good plugin management -> Visual Studio 2015

    • Build settings and Build export (not ipa) -> Visual Studio

    I like VS2015, by the way for building cordova applications you can use build.phonegap.com