Chapter 3

Setting the Environment

The PhoneGap environment can be setup in the following two manners:

  • Local development environment on your machine
  • Cloud build environment on PhoneGap Build

The local development environment setup includes the developer setting up environments for each mobile platform that the developer wants to launch a PhoneGap application on. This chapter covers the local environment setup in detail and hopes that the audience won't require any other documentation to run a PhoneGap application on each of the platform emulators.

In order to run the PhoneGap application on a platform specific device, users need to look at platform specific documents. References to that documentation are provided in this chapter.

On the other ...

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