Nitobi, maker of the PhoneGap mobile cross-platform application development framework, and Microsoft announced a new beta of PhoneGap for the Windows Phone 7 "Mango" release.
Nitobi and Microsoft have announced that the
HTML5-powered
PhoneGap cross-platform mobile application
development framework now supports Windows Phone 7 "Mango" devices.
In a
Sept. 8 blog post, Jesse Macfeyden, senior
software engineer at Nitobi, the maker of PhoneGap, announced a new beta of
PhoneGap for Windows Phone "Mango." Macfeyden also said Nitobi has dedicated
two developers to the project-himself and another engineer named Herm Wong. And
Microsoft is lending engineering resources and technical support for the
project.
"We've been busy dusting off our
Silverlight+C# skills and implementing the other APIs," he said.
In a
separate Sept. 8 blog post, Jean-Christophe Cimetiere,
a senior technical evangelist for interoperability at Microsoft, said, "We'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 for Windows Phone 7 can be downloaded from
https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-wp7.
Describing PhoneGap, Cimetiere said:
"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."
Cimetiere said the beta version
includes most of the basic features, and includes JavaScript APIs to use
Windows Phone Mango features like:
- Access Device Information (UDDI and
more)
- Add and search Contacts
- Connection status (network/WiFi
connection status)
- Alerts/Notification (alert and
confirm)
- Media Capture (Image and Audio)
- Camera
- Accelerometer
- Geolocation
APIs to come include file and storage
APIs, Macfeyden said.
Macfeyden lauded Microsoft for its
standards compliance efforts with Internet Explorer 9. "IE9 is a much more
standards-compliant browser than previous IEs, and implements commonly used
html5 features like DOMContentLoaded events, addEventListener interfaces, and
CSS3," he said. "Be sure to use to get the html5 implementation; otherwise the
browser may fall back to a compatibility mode, and your code will likely choke
and die."
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