The Ubuntu SDK contains a full development environment, complete with IDE and support for running apps on your desktop as well as on Ubuntu phone and tablet devices.

With the SDK, you can write apps using a number of different frameworks:

• QML – Based on the Qt project, QML is a neat, high-level declarative language that makes writing beautiful, slick, animated apps simple and easy.
• HTML5 – You can write two types of HTML5 applications with the Ubuntu SDK: a plain HTML5 app or an app using the Apache Cordova (also known as Phonegap) support that is included. Either way, you can use Ubuntu toolkit components so your HTML5 app looks and feels like a real Ubuntu app.
• Scopes – Scopes are ways of searching for and presenting content in the Ubuntu dash, and you can create them easily with the SDK.
• OpenGL – If you have an OpenGL game or other project, you can run this across the Ubuntu platform.

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