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Is it possible to build an android application with PhoneGap strictly inside Visual Studio?

My company wants us to explore PhoneGap and needs an application deployed to Android, Windows Phone and Blackberry. They want to use one development environment(Visual Studio).

I believe I have read that it is possible to deploy an app to an Android device using PhoneGap : build from inside Visual Studio, but I would like confirmation.

Thank you

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Banana Man Avatar asked Jan 27 '12 21:01

Banana Man


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Nomad is a Visual Studio extension that can build for both iOS and Android directly from within the IDE using a PhoneGap based cloud build service.

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Mark Cheverton Avatar answered Oct 23 '22 11:10

Mark Cheverton


After developing the application in Visual Studio you should be able to take your HTML/JS files, upload them to the PhoneGap Build service (http://build.phonegap.com) and have it compile/generate Android and Blackberry application files for you.

Alternatively, if you don't mind using another IDE for the last step, you can always import your HTML/JS files created in VS into a new Android or Blackberry Phonegap project and compile.

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csbrookes Avatar answered Oct 23 '22 10:10

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