The documentation for creating PhoneGap projects in Eclipse is pretty simple (link), but at 6 or so steps it isn't terribly difficult to make a mistake. While there doesn't seem to be an "official" plugin yet, you should check out the MDS PhoneGap Eclipse plugin. I installed this just now and it worked great. A few caveats though...
- The plugin currently ships with PhoneGap 1.0, not 1.1. But if you download PhoneGap and extract it, you can point the plugin to the folder for 1.1 and it will make use of that.
- The plugin will also automatically add jQuery Mobile or Sencha Touch. But the version of jQuery Mobile is quite old. I'd skip that option for now.
All in all - this took a 10 minute process that I had to pay particular attention to into a 2 minute process that even my kitten can do.
Edit: One thing I forgot to mention. When you create the project there will be an error. Open AndroidManifest.xml and remove this: android:xlargeScreens="true". That should clear up the bug that appears on project creation.
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Ray, Would you say that using eclips is better then using DW 5.5? I have been using the DW 5.5 for phonegap stuff right now and I'm really liking that. Although I have had to hack around to get the new version of phonegap on it but all and all it works very well.
DW CS5.5 is still shipping with an older version of PhoneGap. From what I understand this will be updated soon.
I just created a project using this 'plugin' and was able to point it to a copy of the latest jQuery Mobile code and it pulled in that code without issue.
I am, however, getting JS errors in the jQuery mobile pages - and those error are stopping me from being able to 'build' that app.
Weird...the error was in the minified jQuery Mobile file, removing the file made it possible for me to 'build' the app. Very cool...thanx for this info.
Love it!
Can we use CFBuilder? I remember you mentioned something before but for some reason I can't find it.
Thanks
Mike
Absolutely. That's how I run it normally.
I found it here:
http://www.raymondcamden.co...
but for some reason (I have CFB 2 with hotfix1) when trying to install the ADT got an error and the the another error trying to install GEF:
An error occurred while installing the items
session context was:(profile=profile, phase=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.engine.phases.Install, operand=null --> [R]com.adobe.ide.coldfusion.se... 2.0.0.277745, action=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.touchpoint.eclipse.actions.InstallBundleAction).
The artifact file for osgi.bundle,com.adobe.ide.coldfusion.se...,2.0.0.277745 was not found.
Hmm... I'd Google that. It sounds -very- familiar to me. Sorry to punt you to Google, but that's what I'd do. ;) Like I said, I'm pretty sure other CFB users have had this too.
Worse comes to worse, download a new Eclipse install. ;) Remember Eclipse is cool like that, you can have multiple copies.
Thanks Ray,
Home I was able to install it OK. I think I may found a solution:
http://groups.google.com/gr...
Will try tomorrow at work.
Thanks again
Mike
well it's me again.
I just got back to install PhoneGap on CFBuilder 2. In the mean time I have update to CF10 and CFBuilder 2.01
Now when trying to install ADT I get this error:
Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found.
Software being installed: Android Development Tools 16.0.1.v201112150204-238534 (com.android.ide.eclipse.adt... 16.0.1.v201112150204-238534)
Missing requirement: Android Development Tools 16.0.1.v201112150204-238534 (com.android.ide.eclipse.adt... 16.0.1.v201112150204-238534) requires 'org.eclipse.wst.sse.core 0.0.0' but it could not be found.
Googling the error I found a possible solution:
You probably are using a newer version of Eclipse (3.7 Indigo or higher) Try this:
To get around the org.eclipse.wst.xml.core 0.0.0 issue by taking the following steps:
Go to help
Install New Software: Add Name: Indigo/Eclipse 3.7: "http://download.eclipse.org..."
Select 'WST Server Adapters' under 'Web, XML, Java,..." (the last name in list)
Accept licensing agreement
Restart Eclipse
Resume procedure as described.
from this site:
http://www.howtoforge.com/s...
Would I kill my CF builder installation if I follow the example above?
How can I find which version of Eclipse CF Builder is using?
Thanks
Mike
Mike
Mike - not sure what to recommend here. I used to have ADT installed via my CFB2 install, and it worked, but last time I installed ADT I did it with a virgin Eclipse install, and using 3.7.
Well I went through with the suggested fix and I was able to install ADT and everything seems to work fine, knock on wood.
Thanks
Mike