Although the ability to see how the apps will be “rendered” across multiple devices in the simulator is really useful, there’s a big need for a debugger, this will be covered in another section.ĭebugging with the Apache Ripple simulator
The “Multi-Device Hybrid Apps” provides a manager for the configuration and plugins of your app, it’s really easy to install or uninstall a plugin via the Config Designer. Notes: In order to test your app in the Windows Phone Emulator your machine should be able to run MS hyper V.
version of the plugin for the scope of this post, you can download the plugin here, (there’s a lot of broken links for this resource but this one is working today June 16, 2014). “Multi-Device Hybrid Apps” allows you to develop for multiple devices with the same source (HTML/JS/CSS) using Visual Studio as your IDE.
The last April 2014 at Build 2014, beside the announcement of Xamarin support in Visual Studio, MicroSoft announced another extension that looks promising, the called “Multi-Device Hybrid Apps” which is a plugin for Visual Studio 2013 Update 2.