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
No. In theory yes, but in practice no.
This is not a technical problem, but a social problem in your company. The decision makers have not experience of building mobile applications and try to apply their existing knowledge to an area they don't know and they fail. Unless they can understand their own limitations you are screwed.
It is possible to edit source code using any text editor. However, Visual Studio will not have any IDE goodies, like e.g. launching Android application from IDE available. Forcing Visual Studio upon developers would just hinder the development process.
Sorry about being employed in such mismanaged company.
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.
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.
yes you can create android phonegap appliation using visual studio.. for more information pleasee see the below link..
http://sourcefreeze.com/cross-platform/visual-studio-cordova-plugins-for-cross-platform-mobile-apps/
You could use "Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova". As PhoneGap is built atop of Cordova and are almost the same (see this answer) this might be suitable for your needs?
An overview taken from the referenced website reads:
"Build cross-platform mobile apps for iOS, Android, and Windows devices using Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova. With an extension for Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 or Visual Studio 2015 Preview, Visual Studio gives you the tools you need to get started building your first app using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript based on Apache Cordova."
