Eclipse is a great editor and all, but I’m a much bigger fan of jEdit which I’ve been using since forever (at least 10 years). So, when wanting to do Android development and especially when using PhoneGap most of the existing documentation focuses on Eclipse.
This shows a full manual process, from installing the Android SDK and PhoneGap, creating the initial project and building the sample provided by PhoneGap. The target system is Linux (Gentoo) and we’ll mostly be working in the home directory of a non-privileged user.
Install the Android SDK
At this time of this writing it was version: android-sdk_r15-linux.tgz.
Might take some time to complete all the downloads during update sdk.
wget http://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r15-linux.tgz
tar -zxf android-sdk_r15-linux.tgz
rm android-sdk_r15-linux.tgz
cd android-sdk-linux
tools/android update sdk --no-ui
echo "PATH="${PATH}:~/android-sdk-linux/tools"" >> ~/.bashrc
Install PhoneGap
Download the latest, at this time PhoneGap 1.2.0.
wget https://github.com/callback/phonegap/zipball/1.2.0 unzip cd phonegap-1.2.0
Building the Sample
cd ~/phonegap-1.2.0/Android/Sample android update project --path $(pwd) ant debug
Running the Sample
~/android-sdk-linux/tools/android
Using this UI create a AVD Tools -> Manage AVDs
~/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools/adb devices
Now install to the running emulator
~/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools/adb -e install -r bin/PhoneGapExample-debug.apk