We're just a few hours away from publishing the DMXzone Cordova Builder but until then you can check part 2 of our features in detail article. You can learn more about our smart Cordova command line shell and how to use platform native commands in it. When you run Cordova commands you will see a nice progress circle that
you can even cancel if you want to stop the process. Also full color
coding is supported so you will see various messages in different colors
depending on their status. In addition, the extension comes with great support for BlackBerry 10 simulator and you can try your apps directly in it. These and more you'll find in the list below.
DMXzone Cordova Builder Features Part 2
May 20, 2015
More detailed information about DMXzone Cordova Builder
The Story
- Intelligent actions toolbar - The toolbar of the DMXzone Cordova Builder provides you with shortcuts to most common actions like adding platforms, running emulators, building and more. We call it intelligent because it shows you actions that only apply to the currently selected platform and hides actions that do not apply. This way you know what is available directly. And if you still want to enter some commands by yourself you can, just read on about the DMXzone Cordova Builder integrated shell.
- Smart Cordova command line shell at your disposal - If you like to enter some of the Cordova commands by hand you can do so directly in Dreamweaver. Just type the required Cordova CLI command in the DMXzone Cordova Builder command shell. You can type any Cordova command you wish – just omit the first word “cordova”. You can find a list of available commands at the Cordova Command-Line Interface guide or just type “help”
- Progress and color coding at the DMXzone Cordova Builder shell - When you run Cordova commands you will see a nice progress circle that you can even cancel if you want to stop the process. Also full color coding is supported so you will see various messages in different colors depending on their status.
- Support for platform native command in the DMXzone Cordoba Builder shell - Sometimes a platform requires its own additional shell commands. Those are described in the platform guides / Shell tool guide for the specific platforms. You can run those commands directly in the DMXzone Cordova Builder shell and they will be targeted to the currently selected platform – just prefix them with / for example: /run –target:simulator –keystorepass:123
- Support for Windows universal apps targeting both Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 - Now you can just choose to build Windows Apps! No need to define separately for which Windows – it is all Universal! So your app targets both Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1. You can selected from the dropdown menu which emulator and Windows version you want to try your app on. Note to run the Windows 8 Emulators a Windows 8 Pro is required and Hyper-V enabled.
- Automatic web content switching for Windows apps - Normally Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 apps are very much restricted in the so called local context. This prevents you from accessing any additional web resources like Google Maps, running Ajax or loading some webfonts. DMXzone Cordova Builder automatically converts your app so it runs in Web Context and have all the access you need. This will be the default with Windows 10 but we deliver you this freedom for Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 as well!
- Full Support for BlackBerry 10 and its simulator - Now you can try your app on the latest BlackBerry 10 simulator! Just install it and run it with the VMWare player. You can define targets with the BlackBerry WebWorks UI and those will be automatically detected by the DMXzone Cordova Builder so you can deploy your app directly in the BlackBerry simulator. Note that if you are on Windows 8 Pro – make sure Hyper-V is off otherwise VMWare Player won’t run.
- Full Support for Firefox OS and its simulator - You can try your app on the latest Firefox OS simulator! Just open Firefox WebIDE and run it.
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