Last time out, I started a simple Cordova project. Having got the default project, it’s time to start making some changes. I should probably note that for some not very exciting reasons to do with where I am today and the dev machine to hand, I have used Visual Studio 2013 with Update 4 for this post.
I thought I’d start with something simple. so I added an <h1> tag and put “Starting the Cordova project” inside it. Next thing is to see if it works. That means running the project. With this being a cross platform app, there are several options. The first thing to choose is the platform you want to run the project on:
If, like me, you found that you cannot see the box on the right hand side, you can add the Solution Platforms drop down selector from the Add Or Remove Buttons menu. There are all the familiar Windows Phone Emulators as well as a selection of Android emulators – the simplest being the Ripple emulators that use Chrome to emulate Android. And remember there is a Visual Studio Android emulator that you an install and use, too.
I started with the Ripple emulator, then used the Android emulator, then used a Windows Phone emulator and the app runs on all of them. Here it is on a Windows Phone emulator:
That’s a working – albeit not especially useful or impressive – app running on multiple platforms. Next time I will look at adding some functionality.
