Visual Studio Apache Cordova Tooling preview

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Post by chris-at » Mon, May 12, 2014, 4:54 PM UTC

Visual Studio Apache Cordova Tooling preview
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Re: Visual Studio Apache Cordova Tooling preview

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Post by newsreader » Mon, May 12, 2014, 6:22 PM UTC

I use MS VS 2013 on a daily basis at work and on my own personal projects. This is indeed good news. MS is, without a doubt, moving in the right direction.

Re: Visual Studio Apache Cordova Tooling preview

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Post by andwaal » Mon, May 12, 2014, 6:43 PM UTC

This is actually kinda awsome. I had a terrible experince some months back trying to get a Cordova app made for Android/iOS to work on Win8. As a result of the special javascript rules in Win8, not event the Angular source was possible to run without encapsulation all "insertBefore" in jQuery-lite in "MSApp.execUnsafeLocalFunction".

Together with the toolkit they are even providing example ToDo-apps for Angular, Backbone and WinJs which makes me hope all the issues I struggled with is now fixed.(Possible by running the app inside a webview instead as an native WinJS app).

Re: Visual Studio Apache Cordova Tooling preview

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Post by mox1 » Mon, May 12, 2014, 7:45 PM UTC

This is awesome on multiple levels, but mainly it unchains the "cloud" from Cross Platform app development. Everything but vanilla Apache Cordova (Intel App Framework / AppMobi, PhoneGap, Xamrian) insist on compiling your code on their servers. The effect is they take away a lot of control from the programmer.

If you insist on plain old Cordova, you end up with a text editor (Notepad++), with a cmd.exe window (for cordova/ node.js) and Chrome (for ripple, the Debug env). It will be really nice to get all of this into an IDE.

Re: Visual Studio Apache Cordova Tooling preview

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Post by coreymgilmore » Mon, May 12, 2014, 8:33 PM UTC

Very cool to see MS joining the Cordova bandwagon.

Re: Visual Studio Apache Cordova Tooling preview

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Post by andwaal » Mon, May 12, 2014, 8:38 PM UTC

mox1 wrote: post #4

This is awesome on multiple levels, but mainly it unchains the "cloud" from Cross Platform app development. Everything but vanilla Apache Cordova (Intel App Framework / AppMobi, PhoneGap, Xamrian) insist on compiling your code on their servers. The effect is they take away a lot of control from the programmer. If you insist on plain old Cordova, you end up with a text editor (Notepad++), with a cmd.exe window (for co…

Switch Notepad++ with Webstorm and you got my Corodva stack ;)

Re: Visual Studio Apache Cordova Tooling preview

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Post by cfjedimaster » Mon, May 12, 2014, 9:13 PM UTC

mox1 wrote: post #4

This is awesome on multiple levels, but mainly it unchains the "cloud" from Cross Platform app development. Everything but vanilla Apache Cordova (Intel App Framework / AppMobi, PhoneGap, Xamrian) insist on compiling your code on their servers. The effect is they take away a lot of control from the programmer. If you insist on plain old Cordova, you end up with a text editor (Notepad++), with a cmd.exe window (for co…

You can also debug with Safari Remote Debug and Chrome Remote Debug. Ripple is nice, but you aren't limited to it.

Re: Visual Studio Apache Cordova Tooling preview

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Post by thoughtpalette » Mon, May 12, 2014, 9:28 PM UTC

andwaal wrote: post #3

This is actually kinda awsome. I had a terrible experince some months back trying to get a Cordova app made for Android/iOS to work on Win8. As a result of the special javascript rules in Win8, not event the Angular source was possible to run without encapsulation all "insertBefore" in jQuery-lite in "MSApp.execUnsafeLocalFunction". Together with the toolkit they are even providing example ToDo-apps for Angular, Back…

Installing the Android SDKs, AVD, and dependencies/ENV paths, java installation, etc for cordova/phonegap on Windows took me 2 hours to get the demo app working.

Cordova/phonegap on mac took 10 minutes for the demo app to work.

Re: Visual Studio Apache Cordova Tooling preview

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Post by camus2 » Tue, May 13, 2014, 1:54 AM UTC

andwaal wrote: post #3

This is actually kinda awsome. I had a terrible experince some months back trying to get a Cordova app made for Android/iOS to work on Win8. As a result of the special javascript rules in Win8, not event the Angular source was possible to run without encapsulation all "insertBefore" in jQuery-lite in "MSApp.execUnsafeLocalFunction". Together with the toolkit they are even providing example ToDo-apps for Angular, Back…

and now visual studio potentially depends on java... (android) what a farce.

Re: Visual Studio Apache Cordova Tooling preview

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Post by andwaal » Tue, May 13, 2014, 5:14 AM UTC

thoughtpalette wrote: post #8

andwaal wrote: post #3

This is actually kinda awsome. I had a terrible experince some months back trying to get a Cordova app made for Android/iOS to work on Win8. As a result of the special javascript rules in Win8, not event the Angular source was possible to run without encapsulation all "insertBefore" in jQuery-lite in "MSApp.execUnsafeLocalFunction". Together with the toolkit they are even providing example ToDo-apps for Angular, Back…

Installing the Android SDKs, AVD, and dependencies/ENV paths, java installation, etc for cordova/phonegap on Windows took me 2 hours to get the demo app working. Cordova/phonegap on mac took 10 minutes for the demo app to work.

Think you missed the point. Now you can build your app for win8, something you intill now was only theoretical possible. What you describes is how you setup an android environment on Windows...