Phonegap Cordova installation Windows

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The documentation for phonegap cordova is absolutely horrible   All I m trying to do is install PhoneGap 3 0 on my Windows environment but having no success   Below are my steps and points of failure   Can anyone advise on solutions   According to the instructions    Install Node js  SUCCESSFUL  From nodes js  install -g cordova  SUCCESSFUL  Add Platform  cordova platform add wp8  NOTHING HAPPENS  Try with phonegap  phonegap install wp8  ERROR project directory could not be found    From  Windows Phone 8 platform guide    Install Windows SDK  SUCCESSFUL   Download and extract the latest copy of  PhoneGap  You will be working in the lib windows-phone-8 wp8 subfolder  lib windows-phone-8 wp7 contains the Windwos Phone 7 version of Cordova    HUH      What location is the directory in      So I ve found the undocumented phonegap directory buried in AppData Local    and there IS a libs directory but there certainly is NOT any WP8 subfolders   Where would one install that from   Presumably the add platform command above  but add that simply returns me to a new command prompt   Tried using the phonegap command  phonegap plaform add wp8  ERROR -  platform add wp8  is not a node   I get its open source but this is brutal spaghetti reference documentation   If anyone has been able to successfully install 3 0 for WP8 any pointers would be help

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Phonegap Cordova Installation on Windows

Requirements

Eclipse + ADT Plugin
Android SDK Tool
Android Platform Tools
Latest PhoneGap zip folder. Extract its contents.

Supported Android Devices

Android 2.2 Android 2.3 Android 4.x Phonegap Cordova Installation

Set PATH environment variable for android

From desktop, right click My Computer and click Properties.
Click Advance System Settings link in the left column.
In the system properties window click the environment variables button.
Select the PATH variable from the System variables section. Select the Edit button. You need to add the path to your Android SDK platform-tools and tools directory. For Example: D:\adt-bundle-windows-x86_64-20130219\sdk\platform-tools;D:\adt-bundle-windows-x86_64-20130219\sdk\tools Save your Edit. Close the Environment Variable dialog.
Additionally, you may need to include %JAVA_HOME%\bin to your PATH as well. To check to see if this is required run a command prompt and type java. If the program could not be found add %JAVA_HOME%\bin to the PATH. You may need to specify the full path instead of using %JAVA_HOME% environment variable.
Finally, you may need to include %ANT_HOME%\bin to your PATH as well. To check to see if this is required run a command prompt and type ant. If program cannot be found then add %ANT_HOME%\bin to the PATH. You may need to specify the full path instead of using the %ANT_HOME% environment variable. Set-up New Project

Open Command Prompt, navigate to bin directory within the android sub-folder of the Cordova distribution.

Type in: ./create

Then press Enter.Launch Eclipse. In File Menu Item and select to Import…

Import Select “Existing Android Code into Workspace” and click ‘Next >’.

Browse the project created through command prompt. And click ‘Finish’. Deploy to Emulator From within Eclipse, press this toolbar icon.

Once open, the Android SDK Manager displays various runtime libraries Install the APIs as per requirement from here. From within Eclipse, press this toolbar icon.

Choose and device definition from the list which comes. (There is only one item in the current list.) Press New… in the above window to create new Android Virtual Device(AVD) and use it to run your project.

To open the emulator as a separate application, Select the AVD and press Start. It launches much as it would on device, with additional controls available for hardware buttons:

Deploy to Device:

Make sure USB debugging is enabled on your device and plug it into your system. Right Click the Project and go to Run As > Android Application.

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Running the CMD as Administrator on Windows got me going and I think it only makes perfect sense because people don t really ever make an effort to install their stuff in a custom directory  So when you install node js in Windows directory and then try to install PhoneGap on a Unelevated CMD it has a hard time setting the path variables

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I was having issues wtih installing phonegap  The issues were fixed when i run cmd as Administrator and then run command   npm install -g phonegap   and it is installed successfully    Then in the directory where it is installed i opened cmd  and run command phonegap and it was working fine   Now going to play with it more      Thanks buddies for all this help

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I had the same problem  I lost hours  then I saw that version of node js installed was 0 8  But I downloaded and installed version 0 10 from node js website   I downloaded and installed again  and now version is 0 10  Result  PhoneGap has been sucessfully installed with this version

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I faced the same problem and struggled for an hour to get pass through by reading the documents and the other issues reported in Stack Overflow but I didn t find any answer to it  So  here is the guide to successfully run the phonegap cordova in Windows Machine    Follow these steps   Download and Install node js from http   nodejs org  Run the command npm install -g phonegap  in case of phonegap installation  or run the command npm install -g cordova  in case of Cordova installation   As the installation gets completed you can notice this    C  Users binaryuser AppData Roaming npm cordova -  C  Users binaryuser AppData Roaming npm node modules cordova bin cordova cordova 3 0 9 C  Users binaryuser AppData Roaming npm node modules cordova  -- ncallbacks 1 0 0  -- open 0 0 3  -- colors 0 6 2  -- semver 1 1 0  -- shelljs 0 1 2  -- follow-redirects 0 0 3  underscore 1 5 2   -- elementtree 0 1 3  sax 0 3 5   -- optimist 0 6 0  wordwrap 0 0 2  minimist 0 0 2   -- xcode 0 5 1  node-uuid 1 3 3  pegjs 0 6 2   -- glob 3 2 6  inherits 2 0 1  minimatch 0 2 12   -- plist 0 4 3  xmlbuilder 0 4 2  xmldom 0 1 16   -- tar 0 1 18  inherits 2 0 1  block-stream 0 0 7  fstream 0 1 24   -- prompt 0 2 7  revalidator 0 1 5  pkginfo 0 3 0  read 1 0 5  utile 0 1 7  winston 0 6 2   -- request 2 22 0  json-stringify-safe 4 0 0  aws-sign 0 3 0  qs 0 6 5  oauth-sign 0 3 0  forever-agent 0 5 0  cookie-jar 0 3 0  tunnel-agent 0 3 0  mime 1 2 11  node-uuid 1 4 1  http-signature 0 10 0  hawk 0 13 1  form-data 0 0 8   -- express 3 0 0  methods 0 0 1  fresh 0 1 0  range-parser 0 0 4  crc 0 2 0  cookie 0 0 4  commander 0 6 1  debug 0 7 2  mkdirp 0 3 3  send 0 1 0  connect 2 6 0   -- ripple-emulator 0 9 18  connect-xcors 0 5 2  colors 0 6 0-1  accounting 0 3 2  request 2 12 0  moment 1 7 2  express 3 1 0   -- npm 1 3 11  -- plugman 0 11 0  ncallbacks 1 1 0  osenv 0 0 3  bplist-parser 0 0 4  underscore 1 4 4  semver 2 0 11  dep-graph 1 1 0  elementtree 0 1 5  xcode 0 6 1  nopt 1 0 10  rc 0 3 0  tar gz 0 1 1  npm 1 3 4   Notice the above line you can see the path were the file is mentioned  Copy that path  In my case it is C  Users binaryuser AppData Roaming npm cordova so use cd C  Users binaryuser AppData Roaming npm  and type cordova  There it is  it finally works  Since the -g key value isn t working you have set the Environment Variables path    Press Win   Pause Break or right click on Computer and choose Properties  Click Advanced system settings on the left  Click Environment Variables under the Advanced tab  Select the PATH variable and click Edit  Copy the path mentioned above to the value field and press OK

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I faced this same error too  And i even tried downloading the PhoneGap master from GitHub but i found out that what i got was Phonegap 2 9  I eventually had to download the Cordova 3 Source   Follow this steps to get it      Download and unzip the Cordova 3 Source   Run the template bat in the cordova-wp8 folder   Copy the generated Zip files to your Visual studio template folder

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In C  phonegap-2 9 0 lib windows-phone-8 there s a batch file called createTemplates bat  You need to execute this file  which will create the CordovaWP8 2 9 0 zip file mentioned in their docs

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Phonegap can be a little tricky for freshers  I spent much time trying to find the optimum way for creating a robust android application which can access the phone s native features    This link provides a step wise method for creating a Phonegap android application using windows  html and javascript

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After hours of frustration    here s what i discovered    Ignore the installation documentation and all the command line  node js stuff  seriously you will waste hours on this  Go to github and simply download the PhoneGap master  zip In that zip are project files for window phone  etc platform    just use those templates    I don t know how such an easy process could have worse documentation   It as if it was written by lawyers

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I have found this  Multi-Device Hybrid Apps for Visual Studio Documentation for CTP1 1 Last updated  May 29  2014   Some of the content from the documentation as follows  This release supports building apps for the following device targets  Android 4   4 4 providing the optimal developer experience  iOS 6  amp  7 Windows 8 0  Store  Windows Phone 8 0 Requirements  Windows 8 1 Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 - Professional  Ultimate  or Premium with the following optional features installed  Tools for Maintaining Store apps for Windows 8 Windows Phone 8 0 SDK Additional system requirements vary by device platform  The Android emulator works best with PCs capable of installing the Intel HAXM driver Windows Phone 8 requires a Hyper-V capable PC to run the emulator Building for iOS and using the iOS Simulator requires a Mac capable of running Xcode 5 1 Third Party Dependencies   Joyent Node js     Enables Visual Studio to integrate with the Apache Cordova Command Line Interface  CLI  and Apache Ripple    Emulator Git CLI     Required only if you need to manually add git URIs for plugins Google Chrome     Required to run the Apache Ripple emulator for iOS and Android Apache Ant 1 8 0      Required as a dependency for the Android build process Oracle Java JDK 7     Required as a dependency for the Android build process Android SDK     Required as a dependency for the Android build process and Ripple SQLLite for Windows Runtime     required to add SQL connectivity to Windows apps  for the WebSQL Polyfill plugin  Apple iTunes     Required for deploying an app to an iOS device connected to your Windows PC

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I too struggled a lot with phonegap  steps   The correct documentation is at the following link     http   docs phonegap com en edge guide cli index md html  There is no more cordova command  It is replaced with phonegap

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This answer was first posted here  cordova phonegap does not make android directory  With the release of Cordova 3 3 0  it seems the PhoneGap team is trying to address the naming confusion  The documentations have been updated to recommend people using the cordova command instead  Do not use the phonegap command anymore   Here is a fresh installation guide for a guaranteed trouble free set up    Install Cordova  forget the name PhoneGap from now on    For PC  C   npm install -g cordova From command prompt  navigate to the folder you want to create your project using  cordova create hello com example hello HelloWorld cd hello Define the OS you want to suppport for example  cordova platform add wp8 Install plugins  If needed   For example we want the following  cordova plugin add org apache cordova device cordova plugin add org apache cordova camera cordova plugin add org apache cordova media-capture cordova plugin add org apache cordova media  Finally  generate the app using  cordova build wp8   Here is a link to the PhoneGapCordova 3 3 0 Documentation http   docs phonegap com en 3 3 0 guide cli index md html The 20Command-Line 20Interface

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I had same issue but finally i got success by doing this please go throw this image Plase Run all the command in the PHONE TOOL COMMAND PROMPT

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