By: Martina Jones
Submitted: 2012-02-22 02:42:15 | Word Count: 560
PhoneGap has turned 1.3.0 today. So, let's have a look at its history in summation. I will start by comparing the tools, marketplace as well as devices, and end up with a comparison to developing PhoneGap apps on other platforms.
The Tools
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Developing Windows Phone apps asks for the usage of Visual Studio. Visual Studio functions as the most capable tool and offers to you the advanced, avant-garde templates to make a Windows Phone app. These templates are documented in a well manner and can be understood with lots of easy. These also work fine while getting started. The Visual Studio is written and changed in C# from Objective-C. PhoneGap apps for Windows Phone come with one PhoneApplicationPage and its most work is carried out in the code behind.
Templating
Visual Studio templates are easy! Any project can be turned into a template by simply selecting File?Export Template. Doing some research, you can discover the exacting template identifiers that are replaced automatically when the user brings about a new project from your template.
The Marketplace Test Kit
Visual Studio for Windows Phone comes included with a tool, called the Marketplace Test Kit. It works as an easy method for you to do testing of your app ready to be introduced in marketplace. Automated tests include Capability Validation, Icons and ScreenShots, hence you're sure to have all your resources together in the suitable sizes and cleanup any references to unused SDKs.
Monitored tests entail the capability of checking things such as launch time, back button use and memory consumption.
The SDK + APIs
The functionality level within a Windows Phone app remains compatible with other device such as SDKs. APIs as Contacts can change highly from platform to platform, and Windows Phone is cannot be called differed from it.
The Emulator
The SDK is included with an emulator that suits testing your applications development. It shows you the way of your app sprinting on a device and allows for stimulation of orientation changes, as well as accelerometer and geo-location changes.
The Devices
From an API-SDK point of view, there is better consistency between devices as compared to the Android world, where every device+ carrier appears to be having their own slight changes.
The Browser
Windows Phone Mango offers support for IE9 as the browser that also offers the document in the WebBrowser component used by PhoneGap.
The Marketplace
The Windows Phone marketplace looks a lot like other platforms. Discovery, et al, could take place in the browser, and on the device, or in the Zune software.
The Metro UI
The user interface for Windows Phone comes in a drastic design, and is highly acclaimed for the fact that it is not similar to a run in the iOS litter.
PhoneGap for Windows Phone
On Windows Phone, PhoneGap works amazingly flexible. The API is executed in a user-control. It means that PhoneGap can easily be added to a current WP7 app, or if you opt, you can include Silverlight controls to your PhoneGap app.
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