Monday, February 23, 2015

PhoneGap: Part 2

Bash, Bourne Again SHell, a pun from the Bourne Shell which was the usual shell from Unix. Or at least so says Wikipedia, the source that knows all. Before returning to phonegap I reviewed an UNIX tutorial, to happily find familiar commands (ls, cd) and new concepts such being able to review the rights and running processes.
  1. My commonly used commands that this tutorial skipped
    • $ which : which is looked down on for its inconsistent outputs 
    • $ open -e file : though I think once I set up the subl binary i'll prefer it
  2. Important lesson learned
    • .profile is best to store environment variables as it is consistent across most platforms, a bash will read .bash_profile first so its best to populate it with a path to the .profile file. I found this superuser forum useful.
  3. Favorite concept
    • the bin is filled with most of the systems commands or programs,  also known as binaries, these are precompiled binary code
After all the UNIX excitement I returned to my phonegap project. What took me days before was completed in a few hours.

  1. Recommendations prep before starting phonegap project
    • Familiarize yourself with your shell, where your files are and where you want them to be
    • Beforehand Install/Setup: java, node, Android Studio* (not just the tools), cordova, phonegap, ant, avd, $PATH, $ANDROID_HOME
    • Download the phonegap app and $ phonegap serve your app out easily for testing purposes


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