What is the device driver model for Windows Phone 7/8 ? I heard sometime back Windows using same philosophy as in iOS where in app can run both on desktop and mobile so I was in impression both Windows 7 (Desktop) and Windows Phone 7 will have common device driver model may be WDF (Windows Driver Foundation)?
Your inputs much appreciated.
You missed something.
There are:
Windows Phone 7 applications. You can run them only on WP7 and WP8 devices (or in Emulator on desktop pc).
Windows Phone 8 applications. They can run on WP8 device and in Emulator.
Windows 8 (aka WinRT, Windows Store) applications. They can run on Desktop PC under Windows 8 pro and on portable pc under Windows 8 RT.
Also, WP8 and WinRT apps can use similar API, so you can have shared dlls. But you will have diffetent builds for both platforms.
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I am developing a new cordova app which should be avaible for android, ios and windowshpones. The problem is that you can add cordova platform windows and cordova platform wp8. What is the difference? Is the platform windows not for all windowsphones? Do I have to add another one (wp8)? Also are there more wp8 phones than windows phones so is it enough to just add wp8?
Hope someone can expain me that ;)
cordova platform windows means it's for windows system 8.1 and windows system 10 desktop application and wp8 means windows phone 8 and 8.1 and 10. if you are making only phone applicaiton i preffer add with wp8 only. Because in cordova platform windows has more then one platforms inside it for windows machine, windows phone as well so it will be confusing. so better add wp8 only.
WP8 support all windows phone device.
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 It's outdated for more than three years now.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 developing windows 8 RT app using phonegap technology but now my client wants app support for WP8, IOS and Andriod. So my question is that Do I need to change recode for other platform or I can just export it for other platforms?
build.phonegap.com service doesn't support windows 8 RT build.
I am just confused in Windows 8RT and WP8 phonegap technology support.
Update:
Actually I am coding it for Windows 8 RT using cordova. My question was Can I use same code for IOS, Android and Windows Phone 8?
Windows Phone RT, are the new 8.1 apps, based on new tools and libraries.
They share more common feature with Windows 8.1 RT apps, than its predecessor (Windows Phone 8 Silverlight) and provide new APIs. There is still support for Windows Phone 8.1 Silverlight apps, although they are different from Windows Phone 8.1 RT.
Your might want to edit your description as it is not very clear, you say you develop a Windows 8 RT app (thats a Windows 8.x app, not a Phone app), then on the next line you mention
that build.phonegap.com service doesn't support windows 8 RT build.
Do you develop for the tablet or for the phone?
Is it possible to make a Windows Phone App target only the Windows Phone 7 platform?
I already have the Windows Phone 8 version of the app out, and changed a few things to release for Windows Phone 7 (like resolutions and limitations etc) but when I'm adding it to the marketplace it always has "Supported OS: Windows Phone 7 & 8" and doesn't allow me to change it.
Thanks.
I don't think that is possible, if you upload a 7.5 app it can run on both WP7 og WP8 devices. If you also have an WP8 version of your app, the user with WP8 devices only get the 8 app and not the 7.5 app. Also if the user on WP8 device first download a WP7.5 version of your app, and you later uploads a WP8 version, the WP8 devices will be updated with the WP8 version when ready on the store!
I have developed a windows phone7 application and its target windows phone OS version is 7.1.
The problem is, I saw in some Blogs saying that windows phone 7 apps are not working with new windows phone 8. So I would like to know if my app works in windows phone 8 as well.
Therefore what's the best way to test if my app works in the new windows phone OS version 8.
Thanks inadvance...!!!!
Download the Windows Phone 8 SDK and deploy your .xap to it and try.
http://dev.windowsphone.com/en-us/downloadsdk
They do work in WP8, however will not have as good performance.