Does Appium or selenium support the older version of Windows operating system for mobile ? Windows 6 operating system.
Appium support page says, that Windows apps testing uses Windows Application Driver, which is only available for Windows 10 devices, so Windows Mobile 6 is definitely not supported. Selenium doesn't seem to support old (or any at all) mobile Windows neither (see "Supported Browsers and Platforms"). I tried searching a bit, but couldn't find any automated UI testing tools for old Windows Mobile at all.
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In reading the Adobe PhoneGap documentation they seem to have left out any information about running in a virtualized environment.
As you probably know, you cannot plug a mobile device into a virtualized desktop. I'm not referring to a desktop that is running virtualized software like Parallels(tm) on a Mac. I'm talking about a truly virtualized desktop running on a Linux Xen Host Server.
I'm running Microsoft Windows 2012 Server O/S on a Citrix Xen Desktop v6.5. The host server does not support GPU nor hardware acceleration, and installing Intel's HAXM fails reporting my computer does not support this technology either.
I've found that I can only create an AVD using the ARM versions of the android emulators from the Android SDK. And yes, they are slow.
I did glean some great info from : How can I run Android emulator for Intel x86 Atom without hardware acceleration on Windows 8 for API 21 and 19?.
So now that I have my s-l-o-w android emulator working with PhoneGap ... does anyone know how I can find a Windows and/or iOS emulator that PhoneGap might work with? Is this even possible?
I see all the Windows emulators requiring the .NET framework - rather than any java SDK's and I've heard that you can just forget about iOS development on anything other than a MAC product.
Thanks all!
Mary B.
I'm developing a windows phone app. I'm using Windows 7 OS.
Which Visual Studio version should I use and also which Windows App version should I target?
Can it be WP7.1?
And also, I would need to use WebView. Is WebView available in 7.1? Or is there any other alternative of WebView in WP7.1?
I've gone through many articles but still unable to decide.
I highly recommend not to develop against the Windows Phone 7.1 API. It's outdated for more than three years now. You can generally install the Windows Phone 8.0 SDK on a Windows 7 system: How to Install Windows Phone 8 SDK on Windows 7
The results will satisfy you and your users more than a Windows Phone 7 app.
The mobile app market turns really fast. Much faster than the desktop application market. You should consider to do the free update to Windows 10 in order to be able to create Windows Phone 8.1 apps. Windows 10 Mobile is about to come this year. It supports the Universal Windows Platform so developers only need to develop an app onnce and run it on desktop PCs, phones and other Windows 10 devices. If I started a new app now I'd definitely create a UWP app.
Don't waste your time developing apps against an outdated API. Maybe you can still develop Windows Phone 7 apps now. But you'll probably don't get them into the stores in the future. It's just a matter of time when Microsoft stops developers to publish these old apps.
Is it possible to run an Adobe Air standalone app (portable, it got packed with the captive runtime) on Windows 8 RT?
No, it cannot. AIR supports Windows 8 desktop mode only. There is zero support for the Metro side. As Windows 8 RT only has the desktop available for Office and Windows Explorer, AIR is not supported.
From the Adobe roadmap for the Flash runtimes:
Adobe AIR is available and supported for Windows 8 Desktop on x86-based computers. Adobe currently has no plans to support Adobe AIR for Windows 8 Modern UI applications or Windows Mobile.
They originally did plan to support it, but cancelled support shortly after Windows 8 launched (and caused quite the stir among the community, too). Additionally, Windows 8 RT is ARM-based, which is not supported either (x86-only).
I have made a Web Application on MVC4 Razor using c#. I have to make my application compatible with tablets running different OS like IPad, Android and Windows 8 or 8.1 on their browser (safari, chrome etc installed on those tablets)
I am using VS2012 and windows 7.
Someone, please tell me any simulator or emulator (dont know the difference) available as desktop version for windows 7 to test my application on tablet's browser.
As buying all these tablet is not possible..
I just had a quick look and got a list of software here. Not sure if they will suit your needs for a windows tablet, but there's a lot of links on google to other OS emulating software.
I am about to develop a PhoneGap Windows-Phone app, since i know PhoneGap uses the native browser of the phone to display the app, i would be happy if someone can clarify the following questions for me.
1) What native browser does windows phone 7.1, windows phone 7.5 and windows phone 8 uses.
2) Can the browsers be upgraded without upgrading the phone OS.
3) when a browser is upgraded, will the app use the new features of the upgraded browser or it will continue to use the features of the old(original) browser.
and lastly
4) Will you recommend I build one app for windows 7 and issue it for windows 8 or I should build separate app for all the OS versions.
Thank you.
1) The WebBrowser control for Windows Phone OS 7.1 is based on Internet Explorer 9, and the WebBrowser control for Windows Phone 8 is based on Internet Explorer 10. Because of this, there are slight differences in the appearance of apps that use the WebBrowser control running on Windows Phone 7.5 compared to phones that run on Windows Phone 8.
Resource: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/ff431797(v=vs.105).aspx
2) No
3) Only with OS upgrade
4) If OS is upgraded, upgrades the WebBrowser and its features
5) The best approach would be developing hybrid app targeting Windows Phone 7.1 and it will work the same on 8.x