Taco roadmap - Update 11 with Cordova 7 support
I think it is safe to assume Microsoft has abandoned TACO platform, putting their focus in this space to Xamarin.
- As you pointed out, the last update to the tool was 2 years ago, Jan 2016.
- The last entry in The Visual Studio Blog ("The official source of product insight from the Visual Studio Engineering Team") was 15 months ago, Oct 2016.
- According to his LinkedIn profile, Jordan Matthiesen, who was Program Manager for VS Taco, is now Program Manager for Visual Studio For Mac.
For myself, a Visual Studio user for 27 years, I have switched to using Cordova CLI and Visual Studio Code on Mac.
After a few try i have found a way:
Follow this steps:
install nodejs 4.8.7 on your machine
in visual studio go under tools>options>"Tools for apache cordova" and deflag chekbox "use a sandboxed version of NodeJS"
Edit taco.json file of your project and set "cordova-cli": "7.1.0"
Open a new console and install cordova on your machine (npm install -g [email protected])
For android build:
- open prompt, digit android and press return
- dovnload API 26 SDK from tool
- download gradle 2.x and put bin folder in your system path
- install jdk 1.8.x and set java_home system var to it reboot