There are many ways you can develop mobile applications. Naturally you may have native applications written especially for Android and iOS. On the other hand you may create a multiplatform application that can be compiled to work on both mobile platforms. The two main multiplatform mobile development frameworks are Xamarin and Apache Cordova . You may find that Apache Cordova is equivalent to PhoneGap that also has additional commercial services. Also one of the popular frameworks based on Angular is Ionic that is an kind of wrapper on top of Cordova to speed up writing mobile apps with Angular and also has additional services. In this post I will cover installation of Apache Cordova together with all tools required to run a Hello World application in an Android emulator. So let's start. I'm assuming you have a bare metal Windows 10 installed and you're ready to rock.