LXer: Android App Build Environment With Eclipse, Android SDK, PhoneGap (Fedora 14)

LXer · 02-01-2011, 08:40 AM

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This tutorial describes how you can set up a development environment for building Android apps on a Fedora 14 desktop using Eclipse, the Android SDK, and PhoneGap. I will describe how to build Android apps from the command line with PhoneGap and from the GUI with Eclipse and PhoneGap and how to test them in an Android emulator and on a real Android device. PhoneGap allows you to develop your Android applications using web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (e.g. with JavaScript libraries such as jQuery/jQTouch), and it will turn these web apps into native Android apps (in fact, PhoneGap supports multiple platforms such as Android, iPhone, Palm, Windows Mobile, Symbian, so you can use the same sources to create apps for multiple platforms).

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Kenny_Strawn · 02-01-2011, 09:02 AM

Why not just use AppInventor? It's easier to program that way, as you don't have to write any code by hand.

easuter · 02-01-2011, 11:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Kenny_Strawn

Why not just use AppInventor? It's easier to program that way, as you don't have to write any code by hand.

Maybe because some people are actually competent programmers who can write code for themselves?