There are many ways where applications can be developed in Windows 8. HTML5 and Javascript implementations bridges web developers to creating desktop apps for Windows 8. However, pure HTML and Javascript are sometimes not sufficient. Various HTML5 libraries will enable more features to be added to your application. Why code extra if you can just make use of something awesome which is already there?
appMobi and jqMobi is a HTML5 library which allows users to code in HTML5 technologies and port these applications nicely into any kinds of platforms. Android, iOS, Blackberry, etc. Previously, with my experience with Windows Phone 7, it simply did not work as well. However, today appMobi announced the full support of appMobi for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 devices. We finally can be seeing true HTML5 mobile web applications on the Windows Phone 8 platform, giving web app developers a wider market to expand.
| appMobi and jqMobi now support Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 |
 Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 is the third major supported smartphone OS. Now you can create mobile and desktop apps and games using JavaScript and HTML5, then build them for phones and tablets on iOS, Android and Windows. Because Visual Studio is Microsoft's main tool for creating Windows 8 apps, appMobi has created Visual Studio templates and scripts that make it easy for you to port your existing apps and games.
These new app templates provide code for supporting generic apps, Web apps, accelerated games, and Facebook apps. Below is a video that shows how to get your appMobi app running on Windows 8.
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 The jqMobi open source mobile framework has also been updated to work with Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.jqMobi 1.2 supports both Webkit and Internet Explorer 10-based mobile browsers. All of jqMobi's core and base plugins have been extended to support the IE10 browser in Windows Phone 8, including fixed headers and footers, CSS3 transitions, and JS-based scrolling. The new version adds commands to allow the developer to detect which OS it is running on and adds the $.os.ie prefix to support IE10-specific commands. Get the jqMobi 1.2 preview. |
