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As you may know, PhoneGap supports the Windows Phone platform including the new capabilities in Windows Phone 8 , including IE 10. We’re excited to announce a fun new challenge from our friends at Microsoft: The PhoneGap Windows Phone Porting Challenge! Do you have an existing PhoneGap app? Port your PhoneGap app to the Windows Phone Store. Not only will you reach a wider audience to expose your app to, but you could also win some cool prizes! 20 winners in total with 3 grand prize... Read more...
Our friends at Microsoft had some exciting news last week: jQuery added full support for Windows Store applications! The popular open source JavaScript Web framework jQuery is adding full support for Windows Store applications in the upcoming v2.0 release, thanks to recent contributions from appendTo with technical support from Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. (MS Open Tech). Considering the opportunity Windows Store apps represent for developers, this is a great news for JavaScript... Read more...
January 7, 2013 Update: We are live! Apache Cordova 2.3.0 with full support for Windows Phone 8 is available. Here’s the quick list of steps to follow to get started: Download Apache Cordova 2.3.0 Watch the 5’ tutorial on Channel9 Read the new ‘Getting Started’ Guide Read the rest of the post below for all the details! Over the last few months, we have been working to bring Windows Phone 8 (WP8) into Apache Cordova. I originally announced the newly supported device at... Read more...
At a recent dinner, I took part in a lively conversation about whether Apple will launch a new suite of home products. Imagine an iToaster, iMicrowave or even an iToothBrush – how would Apple re-imagine our common household appliances by combining its design aesthetic with relevant information? Since the dinner was filled with tech geeks, it wasn’t clear if people’s mouths were watering because of the food or the possibility of an iFridge. The funny thing is this discussion wasn’t... Read more...
It’s been a busy morning here at the //build conference in Redmond, just piecing it all together now… Over the last month and half or so, we have been quietly working away on bringing Windows Phone 8 support to Apache Cordova. The SDK has been in private beta, so we had to fly under the radar, but I am proud to say we can finally talk about it! The majority of the effort has been done by Sergei Grebnov with tech support from the MSOpenTech team. Expect to see the repos landing in... Read more...
A couple weeks ago I had the pleasure of travelling to San Francisco to participate in a mobile app porting event organized and sponsored by Microsoft. This post is a little overdue now, however this was such a great event I just had to write about it. The goal of the event was to get a better understanding of the issues developers face when porting their Apache Cordova apps to Windows Phone. I have been focused on Windows Phone development for the last ~8 months, so it was a great... Read more...
The PhoneGap Build team is proud to introduce Windows Phone 7 as the latest addition to our platform lineup! With the addition of Windows Phone 7, developers are now able to reach a new and rapidly growing market. Haven’t heard of PhoneGap Build? PhoneGap Build is a service that allows developers to compile PhoneGap projects in the cloud. Instead of configuring environments and installing platform specific tools, PhoneGap Build allows developers to focus on writing apps. Simply upload your... Read more...
Yesterday, we announced the release of PhoneGap 1.3.0. This early holiday present included many improvements, new features and bug fixes across many platforms. One of the most exciting parts of PhoneGap 1.3 is the full support of Windows Phone, including the full PhoneGap API and Windows Phone Getting Started Guide. Developers can also enjoy a selection of PhoneGap plug-ins that support social networks - including Facebook, LinkedIn, Windows Live and Twitter - and a solid integration into... Read more...
In early September, we announced PhoneGap for Windows Phone Mango. Since then, we've still been hard at work and Jesse MacFadyen, a core developer for PhoneGap, recently blogged about adding plugin support to WP7 PhoneGap apps: "We recently added plugin support to WP7 PhoneGap apps. I will outline here what you need to do to start extending the functionality for WP7 PhoneGap projects. All WP7 PhoneGap plugins must derive from the PhoneGap base command. More specifically, the... Read more...