In order to work together, the Android SDK and PhoneGap need to be able
to find each other. To facilitate this, you need to configure your
PATH environment variable.Your computer uses environment
variables to store little bits of data that are used by
programs that you run. One of these, PATH, is a list of
directories that tells programs where to look for other programs. So, when
you type the name of a command (such as grep or
findstr) at the command prompt, your computer looks in each
of the directories in your PATH for the command.
On Windows, items in the
PATH are separated by a semicolon, as in: C:\Windows\System32;C:\Windows. On Mac and
Linux, they are separated by a colon, as in /usr/bin:/usr/local/bin.
To add a directory to your PATH under Windows, open up your computer’s System Properties. You can
get to this by left-clicking the Start Menu, right-clicking Computer (or
My Computer), and selecting Properties. On Vista or Windows 7, click the
Advanced System Settings link on the left. On Windows XP, click the
Advanced tab.
In the dialog box that appears, click
Environment Variables. Under System Variables, scroll down until you see
PATH and double-click it. Be careful not to modify anything in there yet
(if you make a mistake, you can always click Cancel and start over). Move
the cursor all the way to the right, and add the following (with no space
before the semicolon):
;C:\Android\tools;C:\PhoneGap\bin
Replace C:\Android with the
location of the Android SDK (such as
C:\Users\yourusername\Desktop\Android)
and replace C:\PhoneGap with the location where you put
PhoneGap. Click OK and dismiss the remaining dialog boxes.
On Mac OS X or Linux, you should find a
.bash_profile file in your home directory. It will be
invisible, so try running this command at the command line:
ls -l ~/.bash_profile
If that file exists, edit it by running the
nano editor as shown below. If it does not exist but you
have a .profile file (use ls -l
~/.profile to find out), edit that file instead (just replace
.bash_profile with
.profile):
nano ~/.bash_profile
Next, scroll all the way to the bottom of the
file using the arrow keys and add the following line:
PATH=$PATH:~/Android/tools:~/PhoneGap/bin
Replace ~/Android with the
location of the Android SDK (such as
~/Desktop/Android/tools) and replace
~/PhoneGap with the location of PhoneGap. Save the file by
pressing Control-O then Enter. Press Control-X to exit.
Close any open Command Prompts or Terminals,
then restart them. You should be able to run commands such as
adb or android at the command line. If not, see
http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing.html#Installing
and review the instructions there.
Note:
The utility in the PhoneGap/bin folder
requires that Ruby be installed on your computer. It should be installed
by default on any Mac or Linux system. If you install it on Windows (see
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/), you may
need to edit your PATH variable again and add the
path to Ruby’s bin directory (such as
C:\Ruby191\bin). Don’t forget to add a semicolon
before the path entry as you did earlier.
