Cordova Takes Visual Studio Cross-Platform

Earlier this week, Microsoft announced that it would be providing cross-platform mobile development in Visual Studio using Apache’s Cordova. Like most other all-in-one mobile IDEs, Cordova creates independent builds per platform but is coded using web languages (after all, it’s the name that puts the A in LAMP).

While all pre-production simulation can be done within the environment on the Windows host machine for Windows and Android apps, iOS ports will still require a Mac and OSX to build the project. Microsoft has implemented a server/renderbox solution for remotely building the project. Visual Studio users can check it out with a few tutorials on MSDN Magazine.