Is it possible to create an Android application using PhoneGap strictly inside Visual Studio?

Question

My company wants us to research PhoneGap and need an application deployed on Android, Windows Phone and Blackberry. They want to use one development environment (Visual Studio).

I believe that I read that you can install the application on an Android device using PhoneGap: build from Visual Studio, but I would like to confirm.

thanks

Answer 1

Not. Theoretically, yes, but in practice, no.

This is not a technical problem, but a social problem in your company. Decision makers do not have experience in creating mobile applications and try to apply their existing knowledge in an area that they do not know, and they fail. If they cannot understand their own limitations, you will be screwed.

You can edit the source code using any text editor. However, Visual Studio will not have any IDE properties, for example, for example. launching an Android application from the IDE. Forcing Visual Studio to developers would just hinder the development process.

Sorry for working for such a bad company.

Answer 2

Nomad is a Visual Studio extension that can be created for both iOS and Android directly from the IDE using the PhoneGap-based cloud services creation service.

Answer 3

After developing the application in Visual Studio, you can take your HTML / JS files, upload them to PhoneGap Build ( http://build.phonegap.com ) and compile / generate Android and Blackberry application files for you.

Alternatively, if you do not mind using another IDE for the last step, you can always import your HTML / JS files created in VS into a new Android project or Blackberry Phonegap and compile it.

Answer 4

yes, you can create an application for android telephony using visual studio .. for more information see the link below ..

http://sourcefreeze.com/cross-platform/visual-studio-cordova-plugins-for-cross-platform-mobile-apps/

Answer 5

You can use "Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova" . Since PhoneGap is built on top of Cordoba and is almost the same (see this answer), may this be suitable for your needs?

A review from the linked site reads:

“Create cross-platform mobile applications for iOS, Android and Windows devices using Visual Studio tools for Apache Cordova. With the extension for Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 or Visual Studio 2015 Preview, Visual Studio provides you with the tools you need to get started creating your Apache Cordova’s first HTML, CSS, and JavaScript application. "