• Cordova

Cordova a.k.a. PhoneGap

• Cordova is a mobile develepment framework, builing a mobile app with web technologies (js + html + css) and then deploying to multiple platforms.

Notes on starting a Cordova project

Ubuntu/Linux, environment

1. npm - javascript environment node.js  sudo apt-get install npm 

2. cordova  npm install -g cordova 

   • Doing this as normal user gave some errors, created dir and gave user right.  sudo mkdir /usr/local/lib/node_modules 

3. java environment

   • sudo apt-get install nodejs-legacy
     sudo apt-get install default-jre
     sudo apt-get install  default-jdk

4. android build environment. download from google android-sdk_r24.0.2-linux.tgz (134M)
   • BIT VAGUE, needed to launch and download android versions 19/22 ???
5. npm install -g ionic
   • sudo chown -R pes.pes /usr/local/lib/node_modules/ionic
   • sudo chown -R $(whoami) ~/.npm

New Project

1. ionic start kyr2015 blank
   • Output

     •             Downloading: https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-app-base/archive/master.zip 
                   Downloading: https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-starter-blank/archive/master.zip

   • ionic platform add android
   • ionic --help
   • ionic serve #Dev in browser

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