How To Install Phonegap In Eclipse

What is PhoneGap? [edit | edit source]

PhoneGap allows programmers to build applications for Android and other mobile devices in JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3. PhoneGap (also chosen Apache Cordova) is open source software.

Getting started with PhoneGap for Android on MacOSX [edit | edit source]

• brew update
• brew install node
• npm install -g cordova

Getting started with PhoneGap for Android on Windows [edit | edit source]

To do: describe the "new" approach that uses Android Studio, as described in recent documentation, rather than the "old" arroyo that uses Eclipse.

... npm install -g cordova ...

^{[one] [2]}

As of cordova-android@4.0.0, Apache Cordova has switched to Android Studio and Gradle, and switched away from Eclipse and Ant.

Following the Phonegap documention,^{[iii] [4]}

These outset few steps set up the standard Coffee development environment for Android:

• Download and install Eclipse Classic
• Download and install Android SDK
• Download and install the ADT plugin

The next steps add Apache Cordova, setting up a standard JavaScript HTML CSS evolution environment for Android:

• Download the latest copy of Cordova and extract its contents.
• Setup your PATH environs variable

Plugins [edit | edit source]

Many plugins have been developed for PhoneGap.^{[v] [6]}

One pop plugin is the Barcode plugin.

Barcode plugin [edit | edit source]

(This department describes how to scan a barcode inside a PhoneGap app. An alternate approach scans a barcode from a normal HTML/JavaScript Web page.^[7])

Several people use the Barcode plugin to work with barcodes in their PhoneGap application.^{[8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]}

The standard PhoneGap barcode plugin is often all an Android application needs. If it doesn't nonetheless back up the barcode format you want to use, you may need to build your ain custom PhoneGap plugin, perhaps starting with Barcode development in Java.^[fourteen]

Updating old PhoneGap code [edit | edit source]

Sometimes old functions of PhoneGap are deprecated, and after removed from PhoneGap. Here's a few tips for application writers who desire to update old lawmaking to work with the latest version of PhoneGap:

Follow the steps in the PhoneGap Upgrading Guides: "PhoneGap Upgrading Guides" Various other tweaks: "PhoneGap Android Plugins: Sometimes We Screw Up" "Updating PhoneGap"

                        import            org.apache.cordova.api            public            class            InAppBillingPlugin            extends            CordovaPlugin            {            this            .            cordova            .            getActivity            ();            [            …            ]            }          

Further reading [edit | edit source]

1. ↑ "Lessons learned from trying PhoneGap\Cordova on Windows"
2. ↑ "Installing Cordova on Windows"
3. ↑ "Apache Cordova: Getting Started with Android" Andrew Trice. "Getting started with PhoneGap in Eclipse for Android"
4. ↑ "PhoneGap Project Setup on your Motorcar"
5. ↑ "github: phonegap-plugins"
6. ↑ Adobe PhoneGap – Tertiary party tools for working with PhoneGap
7. ↑ "Using Barcode Scanner on Android to scan from a Web page"
8. ↑ Two-Minute Tutorial: "Add the PhoneGap Barcode Scanner Plugin to a Project, Write an App using Barcode Scanner Technology"
9. ↑ "Barcode Scanner plugin for Phonegap"
10. ↑ Enterprise-Form Barcode Scanner for Mobile Apps
11. ↑ "Apply ZBar barcode reader with PhoneGap"
12. ↑ Barcode Scanner Plugin Instance Projects
13. ↑ "How to scan a barcode from another Android application via Intents"
14. ↑ "Getting Started Developing with ZXing"

• The PhoneGap wiki

Source: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Android/PhoneGap

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