Cordovaįor those of you that don’t know, Apache Cordova – also known as Adobe PhoneGap – provides hybrid mobile Web development technology that lets you use standard Web technologies to build mobile apps. The highlight of these tools is the ability to easily debug Cordova applications using Web developer tools that are integrated directly in Visual Studio, allowing you to debug either the provided emulators and simulators, or debug actual attached live devices including iOS devices. However, I was pleasantly surprised when I actually took this toolset for a spin – it solves a real problem by providing a unified installer for the necessary SDKs and tools to support Android, Windows Phone and iOS, and provides a very well thought out development platform that builds on top of the already awesome Web tooling that Visual Studio provides. To be honest I didn’t have high hopes, given some disastrous presentations I’d recently seen on this toolset. Last week I took a look at the Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova, which is currently available as a CTP preview.
