If you’re a web developer – already familiar with HTML5/CSS3/Javascript then you don’t need to learn some other languages, in order to create desktop application. With TideSDK, you can create cross-platform apps (supported on Linux based distributions such as Ubuntu, Windows and Mac OS X), just like you create a web app. You can also use your favorite scripting language such as Ruby, Python and PHP.

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What is TideSDK ?

it’s a free and open source software (available under Apache 2.0 License), a new standard for creating multi-platform desktop apps, using your web development skills. Currently, it’s in beta release (latest version: 1.3.1 beta), for the latest updates you should checkout their github page.

What languages I can use ?

  • HTML5
  • CSS3 (you can also try bootstrap, foundation or a preprocessor such as Sass)
  • Javascript
  • Ruby
  • Python
  • PHP

Getting Started with TideSDK!

First read this getting started manual and then setup the development environment. You need to install two packages (for your platform) – TideSDK and TideSDK Developer, the official manual explains everything so just follow the guide.

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Update!

Also check out this new tool for building desktop apps (using web stack) : http://electron.atom.io/ (from GitHub)

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4 Comments

  1. How to install it on ubuntu 12.04. I tried it but no success. can you please let me know where is this location ~/.tidesdk and how to extract the zip file there. I just extracted the zip and put the folder under my Home directory, is it correct.

    Please assist

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