PhoneGap Now Supports Windows Phone

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PhoneGapWe're very excited to join Nitobi to announce availability of a PhoneGap beta supporting Windows Phone Mango. This new option to build applications targeting Windows Phone gives more choices to developers. In particular, Web developers will be able to easily leverage their HTML5 skills to target Windows Phone.

The beta version of the PhoneGap libraries can be downloaded from: https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-wp7

In case you've been so busy writing code for months and you've never heard about PhoneGap, it's an open source mobile framework that enables developers to build applications targeting multiple platforms, by using standard web technologies (HTML5, CSS and JavaScript) . On Windows Phone Mango PhoneGap leverages the new HTML5 support provided by IE9.

The current beta version includes most of the basic features, and includes JavaScript APIs to use Windows Phone Mango features like:

  • Access Device Information (UDDI and stuff)
  • Add and search Contacts
  • Connection status (network / wifi connection status)
  • Alerts/Notification (alert and confirm)
  • Media Capture (Image and Audio)
  • Camera
  • Accelerometer
  • Geolocation

This tool makes it really easy for developers to build apps across platforms.

Happy coding!