The import org.apache.cordova cannot be resolved

Question

For some reason, after going through Phonegap's non-inclusive instructions (it doesn't even mention setting up ANT, or the headaches with Ant and JDK), this doesn't work at all:

package com.HealthTrustSoftware.AndroidTemplate3;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import org.apache.cordova.*;

public class AndroidTemplate3 extends DroidGap
{
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
    {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        super.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/www/index.html");
    }
}

It gives 5 errors referencing the fact that org.apache.cordova can't be resolved. I'm entirely sure what to do at this point. Please help. This is after 3 hours of trying to get the sdk working and finally being able to open a project within eclipse. After following the steps on their documentation, I am left with a wasted 3 hours unless I can figure this out.

Answer 1

I just ran into the same problem. Following what was written in here, I finally made it work.

After you download cordova from phonegap github page, you will find cordova-2.2.0.jar and cordova-2.2.0.js in lib/android folder. After running "./create ...", copy cordova-2.2.0.jar into your projects libs folder and cordova-2.2.0.js into your www folder. Then import the project into eclipse and it should work.

I had to go to "Project -> Properties -> Android" and select a newer SDK (I selected the latest one available on the list) and than run the "Project -> Clean" as well.

Answer 2

In addition to copying cordova-2.2.0.jar from the phonegapp download to the libs folder of the project I had to manually add it to the projects libraries.

Procedure: Project -> properties -> Java Build Path -> Libraries -> Add JARs... Then select the libs from the project itself

Answer 3

Android studio: File -> Invalidate cache / Restart. Worked for me...

Answer 4

I initially got around this using one of the solutions posted above: about downloading the phonegap from github and pasting in the cordova-2.2.0.jar and cordova-2.2.0.js files into the generated directories.

After fiddling around with the path and environment variables these files are already in place (project/libs/cordova-2.2.0.jar and project/assets/www/cordova-2.2.0.js) now for me after running the "create" command on command line.

I am using the ANT that came bundled with Eclipse so my PATH variable includes:

C:\Program Files\Eclipse\plugins\org.apache.ant_1.8.3.v20120321-1730\bin;

and I added an environment variable for ANT_HOME of: C:\Program Files\Eclipse\plugins\org.apache.ant_1.8.3.v20120321-1730

I tested adding \bin or removing it to both the PATH and environment variable for ANT_HOME and this was the winning combination.