Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #2 – Installing PhoneGap and Getting Started

The Installation of PhoneGap is pretty simple and infact its just about copying the files to the Visual Studio template folder to kick start your Windows Phone Development using PhoneGap .

One of the Prerequisite to install the PhoneGap is the Operating System . PhoneGap requires Windows 7 or Windows Vista Service Pack 2 . Note that installing Windows Phone SDK itself requires one of the above

Also make sure that you install the Windows Phone 7.1 SDK which can be downloaded from Create.msdn.com

If you have the above things ready , follow the below steps to get started with PhoneGap

1. Download PhoneGap 1.3 here

2. The downloaded file is a zip file which contains the necessary templates for developing Windows Phone App using PhoneGap for Visual Studio 2010 .

Copy the file and extract it to the Visual Studio c# template folder . This is usually

C:\Users\<USER NAME>\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#

3. Start Visual Studio 2010 and create a new project . In the list of available templates , you should see the Phone templates with the name “PhoneGapCustom” and “PhoneGapStarter” .

Select “PhoneGapStarter” and rename the project as per your need and click ok

Windows Phone and PhoneGap - Article #2 - Installing PhoneGap and Getting Started

4. The Visual Studio Solution will contain the folder “www” and “GapLib” and few other important files .

The GapLib contains the Windows Phone 7 PhoneGap Class library dll where as the www folder contains the HTML and CSS file .

Windows Phone and PhoneGap - Article #2 - Installing PhoneGap and Getting Started

5. Double click on the index.html file inside the www folder and edit the HTML file as per your needs .

6. Press F5 to run our first PhoneGap Windows Phone App on Windows Phone Emulator

Windows Phone and PhoneGap - Article #2 - Installing PhoneGap and Getting Started