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.
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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.
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 It's outdated for more than three years now.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Don't waste your time developing apps against an outdated API.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.
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
I have developed an app using PhoneJs framework for all mobile plateforms like Android, iOs, BleckBerry and Windows Phone. Now I came to know that PhoneJs doesn't support Windows Phone 7. I have to launch my app in next two days everything is ready except WP7. Can anyone suggest me some alternates for WP7 using PhoneJs. or how can I do porting for WP7.
While Windows Phone 7.x platform is not officially supported by PhoneJS, most apps will work, with partially degraded UI and performance. For example, I just checked the TipCalculator demo on HTC Mozart browser.
Packaging for WP7 can be done with PhoneGap Build.
I can obviously run a Android VM and run it.. but I am basically trying to skin the "can a Winwows 8 app run on windows 7" cat a different way. My app is Hybrid - so no OS specific dependencies. My customers have a weird requirement where their companies are not ready to go to Windows 8 yet, but we want to be able to give them a hybrid app that was developed for Android, iOS and (eventually Win8) that will function on a Windows 7 machine. The app itself is very "mouse usable".
You could consider using the Ripple emulator. A beta version is available for Google Chrome in the Chrome Web Store, though it's a bit out-of-date with respect to the latest versions of Phonegap. Otherwise, for phonegap 3.x, you can install it using npm.