Windows Phone 8 Platform

Windows Phone 8 Platform Guide

This guide shows how to set up your SDK development environment to deploy Cordova apps for Windows Phone devices. It focuses on Windows Phone 8, but provides additional details on how to support Windows Phone 7.

It shows how to use either Windows Phone-specific shell tools to generate and build apps, or the cross-platform Cordova CLI discussed in The Command-Line Interface. (See the Overview for a comparison of these development workflows.) This section also shows how to open Cordova apps so that you can modify them within Visual Studio. Regardless of which approach you take, you need to install the Windows Phone SDK, as described below.

See the following for details specific to the Windows Phone platform: