Hey folks!
I have been very excited about the fact that one can make Android apps using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Therefore I bought the following book: "O'Reilly - Building Android Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript" by Jonathan Stark. Since then I have been trying to get the AndroidSDK/PhoneGap to work. I've been trying to do so for almost an entire week now. I did try on a MacBook Pro with Mac OS X Lion, and right now I sit in front of a IBM ThinkPad with openSUSE 11.4. *Both times I failed at exactly the point!* Why is it so hard to make it work? I have been closely following Jonathan Stark's directions... So here's what I did. 1. I downloaded the Android SDK (*android-sdk_r12-linux_x86.tgz*), extracted it on my desktop, and renamed the folder - for simplicity's sake - to "Android". 2. Then I opened up "Terminal" and navigated to the "tools" directory, which is located within the "Android" folder: *cd ~/Desktop/Android/tools*/ 3. In order to start the "Android SDK and AVD Manager" I typed in the following: *./android* 4. The "Android SDK and AVD Manager" started properly and I successfully installed the whole "Android Repository". I did not install "Third-party Add-Ons". 5. After quitting the "Android SDK and AVD Manager as well as "Terminal", I downloaded Jonathan Stark's version of PhoneGap (* jonathanstark-phonegap-android-0.9.0-79-ge6b114c.zip*) from https://github.com/jonathanstark/phonegap-android, extracted it on my desktop, and renamed the folder - for simplicity's sake - to "PhoneGap". 6. Next I tried to configure my PATH variable - whatever that is... Neither on Mac nor on Linux the following command worked: *ls -l ~/.bash_profile*Since there apparently was "no such file or directory", I created one. I am totally new to Linux, therefore I did not know how to create a file using "Terminal". So I navigated in my home directory using "Dolphin", right-clicked "Create New" > "HTML File". I then renamed this empty HTML file to ".bash_profile". It immediately became invisible. 7. However, now the file existed. At least I think that. I could now use the following command to edit it using the "Nano-Editor", which was pre-installed on Mac OS X (not so on openSUSE 11.4): *nano ~/.bash_profile* 8. I added the following line of code: * PATH=$PATH:~/Desktop/Android/tools:~/Desktop/PhoneGap/bin* 9. I saved changes and quit everything. At this point, Stark tells the reader to run the following two commands in a new "Terminal" - If they work, proceed, if not, get help. At first, I run * android*. I opens up the "Android SDK and AVD Manager" once again. So far so good. Next, I run *adb*. On Mac OS X simply nothing happened, on openSUSE I get the following information: "If 'adb' is not a typo you can use command-not-found to lookup the package that contains it, like this: cnf adb". On Mac OS X, I simply ignored the fact that adb was not working, therefore I had trouble later on. So this time, I want to do it right. If you have any idea what I've been doing wrong - pleeaase, tell me! Thank you very much in advance! Lucas -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
