Helo,
I am currently trying to build the base phonegapp android app that's automatically created, so I navigated to the directory... but when I use the command
phonegap build android
I just get this random error, as shown in the attatched picture.
Extra info
I am currently on Windows 8, and am completely new to making apps, and am new to the command line as well. Not very familiar with this stuff...
What I'm trying to do would be called 'compiling', right?
Yeah, I had the same problem yesterday - but with a little help of a colleague I got it!
Step by step tutorial (for Windows)
- Install node js
- Install phonegap using command line:
npm install -g phonegap
- Install Android SDK
- Launch Android SDK Manager and install Android 4.4.2 (API19)
- Because latest phonegap/cordova version requires this
- Documentation for Android SDK and SDK Platform should be enough
- Also update already existing packages
- Create an environment variable called
ANDROID_HOME
which points to destination of Android SDK. e.g. C:\Users\You\AppData\Local\Android\android-sdk
- Download Apache Ant and extract the archive somewhere
- Create an environment variable called
ANT_HOME
which points to destination where you have extracted Ant
- Install JDK (Java Development Kit) for your System. Before you are able to download, you have to accept the licence
- Create an environment variable called
JAVA_HOME
which points to destination of JDK
- If you want to add plugins via phonegap automatically you should also install GIT.
- Last but not least you need to add the following directories to
PATH
environment variable:
%ANT_HOME%\bin;%ANDROID_HOME%\tools;%ANDROID_HOME%\platform-tools;%JAVA_HOME%\bin
- Each folder is separated by a semicolon
Setting environment variables will take effect just for new command line windows. So you should reopen it, after the whole process.
Easy, isn't it? ;-)
Now you can use phonegap build android
after you've created a new phonegap project. If you have your smartphone plugged via USB and installed the USB drivers, and activated the USB Debugging on smartphone, you may use
phonegap run android
And the ready build APK will be transfered and executed on your smartphone. Perfect for testing.
If you want to create a final release APK, go to
YOURPROJECT\platforms\android\ant-build
and enter ant release
.
You'll find the final APKs in YOURPROJECT\platforms\android\bin
.
They are unsigned, here is a Noob guide to signing an APK.
I have tested a Barcode Scanner example, and it works seamlessly.
Have fun!
also check android
in cmd
, if it says: 'xcopy' was not recognized
.
then add to your path:
%SystemRoot%\system32; %SystemRoot%; %SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;
Armin's guide is perfect. But if you still fail you can do this.
Phonegap platform files stay in C:\Users[username].cordova\lib folder. Go there and remove android/ios/bb... driectory.
For best result run this command:
npm cache clear
After that try again, clean platfrom files will be download and build your project.