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activelogic
activelogic

Reputation: 1325

Installing phonegap app to android emulator using windows CLI

I'm trying to install my Phonegap application onto an Android AVD/Emulator. I have launched the AVD and it's registering as 5554:Nexus_S.

When using the Phonegap commands at the Windows prompt I am typing:

phonegap build android
phonegap install android

The output I get says it successfully installed the app onto the device, but it never shows up. This is the output of the install command:

[phonegap] detecting Android SDK environment...
[phonegap] using the local environment
[phonegap] trying to install app onto device
cp: dest file already exists: C:\Users\username\app\platforms\android\assets\www\phonegap.js
[phonegap] successfully installed onto device

I've tried variations of targeting the device using options with no luck:

--device=5554
--target=5554

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 13

Views: 16566

Answers (3)

Anas Azeem
Anas Azeem

Reputation: 2830

Okay, I've solved my problem. This solution may not be applied to all, but I was suffering from the same problem as I've mentioned in the comments of the question.

What did I do wrong?

I made some changes in one of the plugins. I was working on my app and added the Vibration plugin. I made some changes in the plugin, both in the generic version [your_project_root\plugins\org.apache.cordova.vibration\src\android\Vibration.java] and also in the platform specific version [your_project_root\platforms\android\src\org\apache\cordova\vibration\Vibration.java].

But when I reverted the changes back, everything went fine.

I say it again, this solution may not be generic but can be useful for at least my type of problem.

And this gives rise to another question, can't we make changes in the Plugins?
I think it is totally fine to make changes in them. Maybe I had done something wrong.

Upvotes: 1

Gunish
Gunish

Reputation: 37

Another quick note is that sometimes even when you have started the emulator phonegap will not recognize it... so you have to start it from phonegap bat file so that the right process number is registered. to do this. Use the following command, 1. List-emulator-images.bat : This will display available emulator images you have 2. start-emulator : This will start the emulator which will register with phonegap.

Also make sure you are running all of this from and ADMIN Enabled command prompt.

Upvotes: 2

activelogic
activelogic

Reputation: 1325

I figured it out. You have to specify the --emulator= in the call, so the command looks like:

phonegap install --emulator=emulator-5554 android

You can find the name/id of your running emulators by running the list-started-emulators.bat under the /platforms/android/cordova/lib/ folder in your project.

Upvotes: 20

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