PhoneGap for Windows Phone 7
Not exactly phonegap… but an easy way to create WP7 (Windows Phone 7) apps without any .NET / XAML / Silverlight knowledge.
Basically, I created a XAML front end as follows:
<phone:PhoneApplicationPage x:Class=”WebBrowserControl.MainPage” xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation” xmlns:x=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml” xmlns:phone=”clr-namespace:Microsoft.Phone.Controls;assembly=Microsoft.Phone” xmlns:shell=”clr-namespace:Microsoft.Phone.Shell;assembly=Microsoft.Phone” xmlns:d=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008″ xmlns:mc=”http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006″ mc:Ignorable=”d” d:DesignWidth=”480″ d:DesignHeight=”768″ FontFamily=”{StaticResource PhoneFontFamilyNormal}” FontSize=”{StaticResource PhoneFontSizeNormal}” Foreground=”{StaticResource PhoneForegroundBrush}” SupportedOrientations=”Portrait” Orientation=”Portrait” shell:SystemTray.IsVisible=”True”> <phone:WebBrowser x:Name=”Browser1″ IsScriptEnabled=”True” Loaded=”Browser1_Loaded” > </phone:WebBrowser> </phone:PhoneApplicationPage>
Then, the MainPage.Xaml.cs file contains:
using System;using System.Collections.Generic;using System.IO;using System.Linq;using System.Net;using System.Reflection;using System.Windows;using System.Windows.Controls;using System.Windows.Documents;using System.Windows.Input;using System.Windows.Media;using System.Windows.Media.Animation;using System.Windows.Shapes;using Microsoft.Phone.Controls;
namespace WebBrowserControl{ public partial class MainPage : PhoneApplicationPage { // Constructor public MainPage() { InitializeComponent(); }
private void Browser1_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) { var _assembly = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly(); var _textStreamReader = new StreamReader(_assembly.GetManifestResourceStream(“WebBrowserControl.Index.html”)); var strHtml = _textStreamReader.ReadToEnd(); Browser1.NavigateToString(strHtml); }
}}
Then Index.Html contains the following:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN””http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”><html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”> <head> <title>Javascript Evalulator</title> <meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=UTF-8″ /> <meta name=”viewport” content=”width=400; user-scalable=no”; </head> <body sytle=”font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;”> <b>Javascript:</b><br> <textarea id=”taJS” rows=”7″ cols=”27″></textarea> <p align=”right”> <a href=”javascript:evaluate();”>Evaluate</a> </p> <b>Result:</b><br> <textarea id=”taResult” rows=”5″ cols=”27″></textarea> <script language=”javascript”> function evaluate() { var JS = document.getElementById(“taJS”); var Result = document.getElementById(“taResult”); Result.value = eval(JS.value); } </script> </body></html>
In order to get a 2/way communication between the WebBrowserControl / Javascript and C#, then The ScriptNotify Event could be used, along with InvokeScript.
Pity the emulator was too slow to see this working properly…
