Installing PhoneGap/Cordova on Linux

Thursday, January 12, 2017 Unknown 0 Comments

Step 1

Install JDk

Open terminal and type following commands

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer

`Step 2`

Download the appropriate Android SDK package from here. Extract the downloaded files.

now open /etc/bash.bashrc file add the following lines

export ANDROID_HOME=/path/Android/Sdk
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/bin

and install Android build tools

Install Apache Ant by typing this command on terminal

sudo apt-get install ant

Install npm Package Manager

sudo apt-get install npm

Install PhoneGap and Cordova

sudo npm install -g phonegap

sudo npm install -g cordova

create android virtual device from Android studio/Eclipse and Phonegap development environment is all set to start with PhoneGap