Opt for the SDK you’ve put in and go away the defaults for the remainder of the choices. Then click on create avd to create the digital gadget. you can now release the emulator (Figure 3-4). for instance, from the command line run . /emulator @phonegap_tester in case you named your digital gadget phonegap_tester. determine 3-4. Create new Android emulator it's going to take some time in addition up because it is emulating the full Android OS and equipment undefined. as soon as it’s booted you could collect and run your apps within the emulator (Figure 3-5). PerchSearch for Android just like what we did for webOS, replica the Android/Sample listing from the place you kept PhoneGap for your improvement listing (probably subsequent to the place you place the phonegap-palm directory). Rename the listing to anything like perchsearch-android. 18 | bankruptcy 3: Getting begun with PhoneGap Figure 3-5. Android Emulator operating Now you want to permit the venture recognize the place you could have put in the android SDK and select the model of the API you will have. You do that by means of operating the subsequent command: android replace venture --path --target i've got downloaded the Android four. zero. three SDK, so i'll use the objective unlock of android-15. you will see that an inventory of put in releases with android record pursuits for instance, on my desktop I did this: ~/bin/android-sdk-macosx/tools/android replace undertaking --path perchsearch-android -target android-15 Now pass into the undertaking listing and construct and set up the applying into the emulator with ant fresh debug set up This command will totally construct the app and set up it within the emulator however it won't really release the app. in its place you need to manually visit the emulator and click the app’s icon to begin it. occasionally ant set up will fail to discover the emulator. If that occurs simply run it back. Now you will have the normal PhoneGap app working Packaging an Android App | 19 in the Android emulator (Figure 3-6). If ant fresh debug set up did not truly set up the app then try out restarting the emulator and run it back. determine 3-6. PhoneGap operating in Android emulator To make our personal app prepared for Android we do a similar factor we did with webOS: reproduction the contents of PerchSearch/war/ to the perchsearch-android/assets/www listing. additionally rename PerchSearch. html to index. html. To rebuild the app run ant fresh debug set up back. at any time when you alter your resource code it is important to replica it over to the www listing and recompile. The app seems like determine 3-7 within the Android emulator. word: If the obvious PhoneGap template works yet your app a lot basically as a white monitor within the Android emulator you then could have stumbled throughout a brand new trojan horse. In Android four+ the webkit implementation brought a brand new safety characteristic which may holiday apps which use iframe. through default GWT will use an iframe as a part of the generated code. Disable this by means of including on your gwt. xml dossier and recompile the GWT venture. Now it's going to paintings in Android 4+. 20 | bankruptcy 3: Getting began with PhoneGap Figure 3-7.