1. How to make it work? Doncho Minkov Telerik Academy academy.telerik.com Technical Trainer http://www.minkov.it

2.  The Android SDK  Installation of Android SDK  Eclipse  Android SDK  Android ADT  Installation of PhoneGap  "Hello PhoneGap" project

4.  Android is a software stack for mobile devices that includes  An operating system  Middleware  Key applications  The Android SDK provides necessary tools and APIs to develop applications  Using Java programming language

5. How to start Android development?

6. 1. Installing Eclipse IDE 2. Install Android SDK 3. Install the ADT plugin for eclipse 4. Add components needed for development

7.  What is Eclipse?  A multi-language software development environment comprising  An integrated development environment (IDE)  Mostly written in Java  Eclipse is used to develop applications  In Java, C, C++, Perl, PHP, Python, R, etc.  For Android (using Java)  Download at http://bit.ly/EclipseClassic http://bit.ly/EclipseClassic

8.  For the Android SDK to be installed  The machine should have at least jdk 1.6  Version 1.7 is also ok  Then download the installer file from  http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

9.  * There is a known bug during installation of the SDK  The installer cannot locate the jdk  Just click the "Back" button and then "Next"  It should work

10.  After the installation of Android SDK  Some components should be installed  Packages for Android versions: 2.1, 2.2, 3.2, etc.  Some other tools like a couple of Google APIs  Start the Android SDK Manager and wait for fetching of packages  This may take a while  Took me two / thirds of a day for all packages

11.  Use the Update Manager feature of Eclipse  To install the latest revision of ADT on your development computer  How to download it?  Start Eclipse, then select Help > Install New Software -> Add, in the top-right corner  In the Add Repository  Enter "ADT Plugin" for the Name  Copy for location https://dl- ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/ https://dl- ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/https://dl- ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/

12.  In the Available Software dialog  Select the checkbox next to Developer Tools and click Next  In the next window, you'll see a list of the tools to be downloaded  Click Next  Read and accept the license agreements  Then click Finish  Restart Eclipse

13. Live Demo

14. How to Create a AVD?

15.  To create virtual device  Open Eclipse -> Window -> ADV Manager  Open the Android Virtual Device manager  Add new device  With the Android OS version needed  Why need AVD?  To test your app before deployment to a phone  To test on different versions of Android OS  To find and correct simple mistakes

16.  Create new AVD

17.  Give it some name  Better add the OS version  Add SD card sieze  Select OS version  You are done!

18. Two ways of creating

19.  How to create a PhoneGap Project?  Create an android project  File -> New -> Android Project  In the root directory of the project, create two new directories  /libs and /assets/www  Copy phonegap.js from your PhoneGap download earlier to /assets/www  Create an index.html file in /assets/www  Copy phonegap.jar from your PhoneGap download earlier to /libs

20.  Copy xml folder from your PhoneGap download to /res  Set the build path of the phonegap.jar  Right click on the /libs folder  Go to Build Paths/ -> Configure Build Paths.  In the Libraries tab, add phonegap-1.0.0.jar to the Project

21.  Make a few adjustments to the project's main Java file  Change the class's extend from Activity to DroidGap  Replace the setContentView() line with super.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/www/index. html");  Add import com.phonegap.*  Remove import android.app.Activity

22.  Right click on AndroidManifest.xml and select Open With > Text Editor  You should edit the xml  By adding new elements  By editing existing elements  You can see how the final AndroidManifest.xml file should look like  http://phonegap.com/assets/guide/manifest.jpg http://phonegap.com/assets/guide/manifest.jpg

23.  This is not so pleasing, right?  Hopefully there is an easier way  Using MDS AppLaud PhoneGap Eclipse Plugin  How to install it?  Open Eclipse  Go to Help -> Install New Software -> Click Add  Like with the ADT plugin  For location type: https://svn.codespot.com/a/eclipselabs.org/mobile- web-development-with-phonegap/tags/r1.2/download https://svn.codespot.com/a/eclipselabs.org/mobile- web-development-with-phonegap/tags/r1.2/download https://svn.codespot.com/a/eclipselabs.org/mobile- web-development-with-phonegap/tags/r1.2/download

24.  After the plugin is installed and ready to go  A PhoneGap icon should be displayed in the toolbar  After than the creation of new project is straight-forward  With AppLaud plugin you can select to include jQuery or Sencha

25. Live Demo

27.  Lets make our "Hello World, PhoneGap!" application  Till now we have an empty PhoneGap project  All we need to do is to edit the index.html file  Created by us  Located in /assets/www  This is the Entry point of our Application

28.  Hello World, PhoneGap!  Open the index.html and copy the following <html><head> First PhoneGap Application First PhoneGap Application <head><body> Hello PhoneGap Hello PhoneGap </body></html>  Go to Build -> Run as Android Application  The emulator should start  And the app run!

29. Live Demo

30. Questions?