Windows 8
Visual Studio 2012 Professional or better, or Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows 8
Follow the instructions here to submit your apps Windows Store.
You can already build Windows 8 apps using the “HTML/JavaScript track” available in Windows Store apps. The purpose of Cordova in Windows Store apps is to expose the same APIs used on all the other Cordova platforms.
Open Visual Studio 2012 and choose New Project.
Select Installed - Template - Other Languages - JavaScript - Windows Store from the tree, and then Blank App from the projects list. Enter whatever project name you like. We're using CordovaWin8Foo in this guide.
Microsoft continues to use default.html as the default page for use in websites, whereas most “open web” developers use index.html. (Plus it's likely that in the other platform variants of your project you are using index.html as the name of your default page.) To fix this, in Solution Explorer rename the default.html file to index.html. Then double-click the package.appxmanifest file and change the Start page value to index.html.
To include cordova.js in your project, right-click on the js folder in Solution Explorer and select Add - New Item. Locate the corvoda.js file in the lib\windows-8 folder that we called out previously.
Edit the code for index.html. Add a reference to cordova.js. You can do this manually, or by dragging the file from Solution Explorer.
<!-- WinJS references --> <link href="//Microsoft.WinJS.1.0/css/ui-dark.css" rel="stylesheet" /> <script src="//Microsoft.WinJS.1.0/js/base.js"></script> <script src="//Microsoft.WinJS.1.0/js/ui.js"></script> <!-- Cordova --> <script src="/js/cordova.js"></script> <!-- CordovaWin8Foo references --> <link href="/css/default.css" rel="stylesheet" /> <script src="/js/default.js"></script>
<body> <p>Content goes here</p> <script type="text/javascript"> console.log("Subscribing..."); document.addEventListener("deviceready", function () { navigator.notification.alert("The device is ready!"); }); </script> </body>
Run the project from Visual Studio. You'll see the message box appear.
That‘s it! You’re now ready to build Windows Store apps with Cordova.