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i am currently trying to learn how to develop apps for android mobile phones using PhoneGap. i was able to get this book titled "PhoneGap 2x mobile application development". ths book is really nice and self explanatory but the problem i have is when the author want to create d project via the command line, he was using Unix commands because he is running a Unix PC. I am running Windows and to follow his commands using the CMD is a bit hard for me because i dont understand all of his commands.

Below was what he wrote:

mkdir $PROJECT_HOME

cd $PROJECT_HOME

mkdir Android iOS www

cd $PHONEGAP_HOME/lib/android/bin

./create $PROJECT_HOME/Android/QuizTime com.phonegaphotshot.

QuizTime QuizTime

cd $PHONEGAP_HOME/lib/ios/bin

./create $PROJECT_HOME/iOS com.phonegaphotshot.QuizTime QuizTime

cd $PROJECT_HOME

mkdir www/cordova

cp Android/QuizTime/assets/www/cordova-2.2.0.js www/cordova/

cordova-2.2.0-android.js

cp iOS/www/cordova-2.2.0.js www/cordova/cordova-2.2.0-ios.js

cd Android/QuizTime/assets

rm –rf www

ln –s ../../../www

cd ../../../iOS

rm –rf www

ln -s ../www

cd ..

cd www

cp –r $YASMF_DOWNLOAD/framework .

mkdir images models views style

cd ..

cd Android/QuizTime/src/com/phonegaphotshot/QuizTime

edit QuizTime.java

Change "index.html" to "index_android.html"

Save the file.

cd $PROJECT_HOME/iOS/QuizTime

can someone tell me how to do this on the windows cmd. i know what mkdir is but i need a total description and if possible a translation following that if you were to do this on a windows cmd.

I forgot to mention one simple fact. You CAN NOT RUN the unix commands over Windows DOS/CMD
check this link. It gives direct co-relation between dos and unix commands. hope this helps.
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/app2.html

or better still, check this
http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/unix_for_dos_users.html

Once you get the different commands, guess it should not be hard for you to write it in DOS.
Note: The "create" command is part of phonegap/cordova apis..

Also, check this link: http://docs.phonegap.com/en/2.1.0/guide_command-line_index.md.html

Here is a snapshot of the code converted:

 -- make directory ---

 C:> mkdir PROJECT_HOME

 -- go to the directory you created ---

 cd PROJECT_HOME

-- make directories inside ---

C:PROJECT_HOME> mkdir Android

C:PROJECT_HOME> mkdir iOS

C:PROJECT_HOME> mkdir www

-- now navigate to the bin directory- ---

C:PROJECT_HOME> cd libandroidbin

-- now you basically runn the create command, am hereby just putting in what you wrote ---

C:PROJECt_HOMElibandroidbin>create PROJECT_HOMEAndroidQuizTime com.phonegaphotshot.QuizTime QuizTime

----- do same for the ios------------

-------make dir for cordova -------

C:PROJECT_HOME> cd www

C:PROJECT_HOMEwww> mkdir cordova

--then you have to copy the contents of one directory to another, to copy everyrthin in directory recursively, use xcopy-----------

C:PROJECT_HOME> XCOPY AndroidQuizTimeassetswwwcordova-2.2.0.js wwwcordovacordova-2.2.0-android.js

I know this is a quite old question but anyway, have you ever tried a terminal emulator? Try Console. It's a free terminal emulator for windows.

and to get to know what a command does type

man <command>

in the terminal.

The book "PhoneGap 2x mobile application development" is quite old. The phonegap/cordova development has changed quite a bit from 3x onwards. The current/latest version is 4x.

Below are the links pertaining to phonegap/cordova 3x which will work for 3x and 4x versions.

hope it helps.

http://thejackalofjavascript.com/phonegap-3-cli-setup-mac-windows/

http://coenraets.org/blog/cordova-phonegap-3-tutorial/

http://teusink.blogspot.in/2013/07/guide-phonegap-3-android-windows.html

http://sdk.revmobmobileadnetwork.com/phonegap_cordova.html

http://docs.phonegap.com/en/3.5.0/guide_platforms_android_index.md.html#Android%20Platform%20Guide

Phonegap Cordova installation Windows

If you install Cygwin you can use unix commands on Windows CMD as you can see on this website https://lifehacker.com/362316/use-unix-commands-in-windows-built-in-command-prompt