PhoneGap now fully supports Windows Phone
Back in September, Microsoft joined Nitobi to announce a Beta of PhoneGap support for Windows Phone Mango, and at the same time committed to continue working with the PhoneGap Open Source project community to help bring full support.
PhoneGap by Nitobi is an open source mobile framework that enables developers to build applications targeting multiple platforms, by using standard web technologies (HTML5, CSS and JavaScript). This release extends the cross-platform capabilities of PhoneGap, giving more choice to developers in need of a programming environment allowing them to easily deliver the same mobile experience to their users across the various existing and prominent mobile operating systems.
In addition to being able to leverage their HTML5 and Javascript skills to target Windows Phone, developers can now enjoy a selection of PhoneGap Plugins that support social networks and a solid integration into Visual Studio Express for Windows Phone. The plugins are:
- Facebook JS SDK
- Twitter/LinkedIn/WindowsLive status retriever
- Bing Maps Launcher
- LiveTile Update
This release includes many new features, and you can find more details here
Resources
- The popular PhoneGap open source mobile framework support for Windows Phone 7.5 is complete and available for download: https://github.com/cordova/cordova-windows-phone
- Additional PhoneGap plugins that support social networks - Facebook, LinkedIn, Windows Live, Twitter and mapping (Bing Map launcher) - are now available for download here.
- Technical details from PhoneGap.com: PhoneGap for Windows Phone Dissected
https://www.risingj.com/archives/147 - Get Started with PhoneGap on Windows Phone 7.5: https://PhoneGap.com/start#wp
- Video published on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aqYKd5rxr8
- Video published on Channel 9 https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Interoperability
- Series of tips posts on Glen Gordon’s blog: https://blogs.msdn.com/b/glengordon/
- Jesse MacFayden’s blog (PhoneGap’s dev lead): https://risingj.com/
Other resources
- WP7 Porting resources and API mapping: https://windowsphone.interopbridges.com/
- “Leveraging your iPhone development expertise to build Windows Phone applications” https://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/archive/2011/04/29/leveraging-your-iphone-development-expertise-to-build-windows-phone-7-applications.aspx
- “Leveraging your Android development expertise to build Windows Phone applications” https://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/archive/2011/06/09/leveraging-your-android-development-expertise-to-build-windows-phone-applications.aspx