Android and iOS Mobile Application Development (Part 3): Creating our first Mobile Application in Visual Studio 2015 using Apache Cordova
Welcome to the third part of the series on Android and iOS Mobile Application Development. Let's begin! Creating our first Apache Cordova project First, in Visual Studio 2015, we will need to select Other Languages > Javascript. From here, we can choose Blank App (Apache Cordova). At first glance, we can see that the project structure is very much different than how we are used to seeing it. However, this project structure is pretty much in line with how we will be writing web applications in the future. Scott Hanselman has a pretty good article explaining the idea behind this which I encourage you to read if you are not already familiar with Bower and NPM. For the purpose of this article, we are going to go straight into downloading the packages we need using Bower. Let's open up the bower.json file. We will be downloading AngularJs, Ratchet and something called Script.js Simply, Script.js helps us by being able to download our javascript files on-demand and lo...