As you probably know Cordova does not work in Windows Phone 8.1 – applications based on this framework crashes in the latest Microsoft mobile system. So far, the Apache team has not found a solution. And, in my opinion, there is no need to go looking for.

The latest version of Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 did a little suprise for developers and made several templates of different applications written in all the languages ​​available for Windows Phone developers – from C and JavaScript to… HTML5. Thats right – Microsoft give us templates that supports webview and HTML5. Thus Cordova lost the Windows Phone.

In addition Microsoft templates properly support the audio tag, so Cordova can not cope in Windows Phone 8.1 completely (when you run an application compiled for Windows Phone 8 of course – apps compiled for Windows Phone 8.1 crashes at start). Therefore, if you are upset that there is no way to run properly the Cordova application in WP 8.1, say hello to Microsoft’s runtime application API, which is available here

Code transfer from Cordova takes just a few minutes.