Once you are done with your development, you might want to test the application on a real mobile device. Each mobile platform will have a different kind of binary format for the applications. For example, Android application files will have the .apk extension. Similarly, each platform will have a different format for the application.
To create binary files for all platforms from your source code, you need to build the application either locally or by using a cloud service.
If you are building the application locally, you need to run the command-line interface, and the required platform's SDK should be installed on the machine. The CLI supports the following combinations on each operating system:
|
Windows |
Linux |
Mac |
|---|---|---|
|
Amazon Fire OS Android BlackBerry 10 Windows Phone 7 Windows Phone 8 Windows 8 Firefox OS |
Amazon Fire OS Android BlackBerry 10 Firefox OS |
iOS (only on Mac) |
This table makes it clear that you can't build an iOS application on a Windows machine or a Windows...