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Asked: 2026-06-09T10:18:53+00:00

i’m starting development with phonegap for tablets and need to clarify some issues. 1)

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i’m starting development with phonegap for tablets and need to clarify some issues.

1) as i understood, i can work in any IDE: Visual Studio, Idea, XCode. All what i need from IDE is emulator to test some specific things, for example interacting with file system, or making JSONP requests to some site’s API. Is this true?

2) after developing of application for one single platform, i can take the ‘www’ folder and build it for other platforms using PhoneGap Build, isn’t it?

3) is there any way to emulate tablet in visual studio?

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  1. Editorial Team

    1) You need the IDEs for target-platform-specific coding. If you want to make a PhoneGap plugin for Windows Phone, you’d use Visual Studio for the native part. If it were a plugin for iOS, you’d use Xcode.

    If you don’t want to use PhoneGap Build, you can also build packages for the target platforms using the respective IDEs.

    IDEs are also the primary way to test your application, since you can’t easily test
    features specific to a mobile device in your browser. If you have the SDKs for your target platforms installed, the respective IDEs should feature a way to run an emulator. You will probably have to set up a project for your app, according to the instructions here.

    2) Generally, your application should run on any supported platform, as long as you stick to the PhoneGap API. Some features might behave differently on different platforms, so you’ll still have to test throroughly on all platforms you indend to support.

    3) If you install the Windows Phone SDK, you can use an emulator. There is some information on what the emulator is capable of on MSDN.

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