Develop Iconic application using corodova and build apk file using gradle. Setup environment for iconic application development in Ubuntu 12.04.

Setup environment for iconic app development in Ubuntu 12.04.

Install nodejs, ionic & corodova 1.Install nodejs

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_7.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install nodejs
sudo apt-get install build-essential
nodejs -v
npm -v

2.Install globally iconic & corodova:

npm install -g cordova ionic

Install ant as per below command or found latest tar.gz for ant version and extract it.

 wget http://apache.heikorichter.name/ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.8.4-bin.tar.gz
 tar xvfz apache-ant-1.8.4-bin.tar.gz
 sudo mv apache-ant-1.8.4 /usr/local
 export ANT_HOME="/usr/local/apache-ant-1.8.4"
 echo $ANT_HOME
 ant -version

Install Java and set path in environment:

1.Installation java:

 sudo apt-add-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
 sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

2.Edit bashrc file using add below lines then restart terminal:

 nano ~/.bashrc
 export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle
 export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
 source ~/.bashrc

Download android studio and install it 1.Install libs for android studio:
```
 sudo apt-get install libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386 lib32z1 libbz2-1.0:i386
```
2.Download android studio 3.Install depedency and android studio
Set environment path of android sdk

1.Check Path of sdk (open android studio > File > Settings > System Settings > Android sdk > Andoid Sdk Location) 2.Install android 23 from settings 3.set environment ANDROID_HOME(sdk) using export
```
 nano ~/.bashrc
 export ANDROID_HOME=/home/tasol/Android/Sdk/
 export PATH=${PATH}:/home/tasol/Android/Sdk/platform-tools:/home/tasol/Android/Sdk/tools
 source ~/.bashrc
```
Set environment path for gradle 1.Find path using locate cmd locate gradle.bat. 2.export environment path for gradle and check gradle version
```
 export PATH=${PATH}:/opt/android-studio/gradle/gradle-2.14.1/bin/
 gradle -version
```
Iconic app development: 1.create new iconic app with default template(template="tabs/blank/sidemenu")
```
 ionic start todo blank
```
2.Before run ionic app, need to define for which plateform ionic app.
```
 ionic platform android
```
3.Build apk:
```
 ionic build android
```

final environment paths and ~/.bashrc file:

 # JAVA_HOME
 export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle
 export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

 # ANDROID_HOME
 export ANDROID_HOME=/home/tasol/Android/Sdk
 export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/bin

 #Android tools path sets in environments:
 export PATH=${PATH}:/home/tasol/Android/Sdk/platform-tools:/home/tasol/Android/Sdk/tools

 #set gradle path:
 export PATH=${PATH}:/opt/android-studio/gradle/gradle-2.14.1/bin/

Reference Link:

dhavalv/ionic_development_environment.md

Setup environment for iconic app development in Ubuntu 12.04.