Few basic question about IONIC and mobile apps development

Question

1) what is IONIC 2) to develop application with ionic and visual studio developer need VS2015 or VS2013 also work ? 3) what is difference between ionic and phone gap 4) what is cordova and cortana ? 5) cordova and cortana has any relation with ionic ? 6) why ionic is called hybrid apps ? 7) why ionic is called hybrid apps ? 8) what is the meaning of native apps regarding mobile development ? 9) when we develop mobile apps with ionic then how could we create setup file for all platform like windows phone ios android etc from VS2015 IDE ? i do not have development background regarding mobile apps. i work as a web and windows developer using c# winform asp.net. i never develop any mobile apps. so please guide me answering my questions in details. thanks

Nitin Sontakke · Answer

Sincere apologies. I (obviously) meant no offence!

tri_inn · Answer

the person who work with ionic they can answer my easy basic questions. it seems you do not know answer they who force you to post a answer. every one know we can search google but the way i am looking for answer may not be available ? here i did not post question for any suggestion. i am looking for straight forward answer. if anyone does not know that then please do not come with any advise. thanks

Nitin Sontakke · Answer

Much of the answer that you will get will be links to other contents. Your questions are not specific. They are more of a concept level / broad level questions. I suggest you read articles hit by googling the above questions. You will need to start somewhere ask questions on ionic forum etc. It would be a slightly painful but overall enjoyable journey. Trust me!