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Is there a definitive tutorial for Phonegap with Android? The existing one fails to cover the whole Callback/Apache Cordova naming thing and the deprecation of DroidGap (featured in most PhoneGap forum answers suggesting import org.apache.cordova.DroidGap;). This helps, but I'm short of reading time (after spending a day and most of a night at this) - all I need to do is get a simple skeleton app working so I can start porting an existing PhoneGap-based iOS app to Android.
Update: after much time spent fiddling with Eclipse and installing the necessary, the latest guide or the video still fall at the first hurdle for me - there's no PhoneGap for Android icon in Eclipse, and the Android project wizard now also appears to be broken... so I've ended up paying someone to do the porting from iOS to Android. Every encounter I've had with Eclipse has been fraught with errors - I simply don't have the time to fix them all!
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PhoneGap started as a project to fill the gap between the native and the Web world in 2008. Adobe announced the end of the PhoneGap product line and the end of the investment into Apache Cordova because "PWAs are increasingly bridging the gap between web and native mobile apps (...) without the need for containers."
Apache Cordova Is Retired: Alternatives for Cross Platform Mobile Development in 2022. Future trends of cross-platform mobile development are already starting to emerge, and it appears that Apache Cordova won't be included in the list of frameworks that power hybrid web apps for mobile devices.
Cordova is owned by Apache and will always remain open source and free to use. However, PhoneGap is the distribution of Cordova and may even charge for the additional services. PhoneGap is the proprietary product of Adobe and the framework's future is in the hands of Adobe.
The same is true here: Cordova is the open source version of the framework, while PhoneGap is the Adobe-branded version.
I wasn't able to find that either when upgrading my apps to cordova-1.5.0 but I found my answers in the example app found in the phonegap-phonegap-1.5.0-0-gde1960d.zip It is in the folder phonegap-phonegap-de1960d/lib/android/example
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