Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #1 – Introduction
With the recent release of PhoneGap 1.3 that includes full Windows Phone 7 support , it looks like we got another way to develop Windows Phone App but using HTML5 and PhoneGap .
In the current and the next few posts , i will explain how the Windows Phone 7 Developers can use PhoneGap to develop apps .
What is PhoneGap ?
PhoneGap is a open source mobile development framework that enables the developers to build Mobile Apps using JavaScript and HTML5 .
PhoneGap is developed by Nitobi which is now aquired by Adobe .
PhoneGap currently supports
- iOS
- Android
- Wndows Phone 7
- BlackBerry
- WebOS
- Symbian
- Bada
Did you see that PhoneGap supports 7 different platforms and interestingly Windows Phone 7 is the 7th ( newest ) one to be included .
As per the PhoneGap website , the following features are supported in PhoneGap for Windows Phone 7 .
- Accelerometer
- Camera
- Compass
- Contacts
- File
- Geolocation
- Media
- Network
- Notification (Alert)
- Notification (Sound)
- Notification (Vibration)
- Storage
If you are Windows Phone Developer and wish to develop Apps using HTML5 , CSS and JavaScript , then can make use of the PhoneGap and develop Windows Phone Apps 
PhoneGap can be downloaded from the PhoneGap site
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