How to install Phonegap on linux

Introduction:
Phonegap is a Software development framework by Adobe System, which is use to develop mobile applications. To developm apps using Phonegap, the developer does not require to have knowledge of mobile programming language but only web-development languages like Html, CSS and JScript.

This post is all about setting up Phonegap on linux system. After following these steps, you are ready to develop apps using Phonegap.

Steps:
1)  Install JDK.
JDK is Java Development kit (which allows you to compile java).

sudo apt-get install oracle-java9-installer
or
sudo yum install oracle-java9-installer 

if you do not have oracle-java9-installer then go for lower version 8 i.e oracle-java8-installer.

sudo update-alternatives --config java

 if the above commands display this:

 It means you have multiple java installed. Now choose java-9-oracle.
Note: if above command does not show anything , it means you do not have multiple java installed.

2) Download Android Sdk

https://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r24.4.1-linux.tgz 

you can also visit to android website and download sdk for linux.

3) Extract the files and set as environment variable

export PATH=$PATH:/PATH_TO_DOWNLOADED_SDK/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools:PATH_TO_DOWNLOADED_SDK/android-sdk-linux/tools
echo $PATH  

4) Install android tools using Android SDK Manager

android

 click on install packages. it will install all updated packages.

5) For phonegap we are going to use Apache ant build tool.

sudo apt-get install ant 

6) install nodejs

sudo apt-get install nodejs

sudo apt-get install npm

npm install -g npm 

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node 

first command install npm tool. Sometimes, few of tools of npm do not get installed. Therefore, second command is to make sure that all the required tools has been successfully installed or not. If not then it will start installing. So do not worry if last command may not install anything.

7) Install phonegap and cordova

npm install -g phonegap@latest
npm install -g cordova@latest

8) Create virtual device

android avd

 if you do not find android command then repeat 3 step.

 9) Now you can create your project

cordova create hello com.example.hello HelloWorld

you can add platform now(Android in this case)

cd hello/
cordova platform add android 

Now run your project

cordova run android

sometimes, above command fails and ask for packages you will require, in that case repeat step 4 and install the required tools.
Once, device is ready, you can close the emulator and start doing coding in projects www/ folder
We are Done!!

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