I am new to Kendo UI and would like to try to use it to build my first mobile app. I found this article: http://www.kendoui.com/blogs/teamblog/posts/12-08-15/rocking_kendo_ui_in_visual_studio_2012_and_windows_8.aspx but it seems to be more about Kendo UI Web rather than mobile. How does mobile development work? What project type do I start with in Visual Studio? Does Kendo provide some sort of phone emulator? Do the apps just run in your browser window? Are there ways to test/support multiple screen sizes? Does Kendo UI Mobile support intellisense in Visual Studio?
Really exciting to begin using this and if it works out as planned I will definately be purchasing a license. Thanks so much!
Really exciting to begin using this and if it works out as planned I will definately be purchasing a license. Thanks so much!
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answered on 15 Apr 2013, 05:42 PM
I am trying to find out the same thing and so far finding nothing. We have a fairly large solution with MVC projects and web pages and I wiould like to start a mobile project in it. Seems like there should just be a MVC4 Kendo Mobile project template or something like that.
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Hello guys,
I will try to address each of your questions briefly.
@Brandon:
1. We don't offer specific Kendo UI Mobile project templates for Visual Studio, however you can choose the regular Kendo UI Complete for ASP.NET MVC project boilerplates (part of our VS Extensions) and integrate Kendo UI Mobile in their mobile views in case you leverage ASP.NET MVC 4. Alternatively, consider using our cross-platform IDE, Icenium, which leverages Kendo UI Mobile for mobile apps development.
2. You can use the official MS Windows Phone 8 emulator together with Visual Studio. In the case with Icenium, there are built-in iOS and Android emulators. Kendo UI itself does not offer a separate phone emulator tool.
3. By default the mobile app built with Kendo UI Mobile can run on your mobile device browser, as well as on desktop WebKit browsers. You can also use PhoneGap or Icenium to compile and deploy the app on mobile device independently from a browser, as well as distribute it on App Stores. See more info here.
4. Yes, this can be done using view port checks. Additionally, Icenium greatly facilitates the testing process providing emulators for the most popular iOS/Android devices, live sync on multiple devices, etc.
5. Kendo UI Mobile provides VS IntelliSense via vsdoc files or VS 2012 IntelliSense annotations.
@Kent:
See my reply to Brandon, point 1.
I hope this explanation is helpful.
Best regards,
Sebastian
the Telerik team
I will try to address each of your questions briefly.
@Brandon:
1. We don't offer specific Kendo UI Mobile project templates for Visual Studio, however you can choose the regular Kendo UI Complete for ASP.NET MVC project boilerplates (part of our VS Extensions) and integrate Kendo UI Mobile in their mobile views in case you leverage ASP.NET MVC 4. Alternatively, consider using our cross-platform IDE, Icenium, which leverages Kendo UI Mobile for mobile apps development.
2. You can use the official MS Windows Phone 8 emulator together with Visual Studio. In the case with Icenium, there are built-in iOS and Android emulators. Kendo UI itself does not offer a separate phone emulator tool.
3. By default the mobile app built with Kendo UI Mobile can run on your mobile device browser, as well as on desktop WebKit browsers. You can also use PhoneGap or Icenium to compile and deploy the app on mobile device independently from a browser, as well as distribute it on App Stores. See more info here.
4. Yes, this can be done using view port checks. Additionally, Icenium greatly facilitates the testing process providing emulators for the most popular iOS/Android devices, live sync on multiple devices, etc.
5. Kendo UI Mobile provides VS IntelliSense via vsdoc files or VS 2012 IntelliSense annotations.
@Kent:
See my reply to Brandon, point 1.
I hope this explanation is helpful.
Best regards,
Sebastian
the Telerik team
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