1. Creating a Cordova Project

Hay Friends today we are going to create a cordova project using CLI

1.    First you have to install node.js(http://nodejs.org/) into your system.Then open your command prompt and type below commands to install cordova.

§  If you’re using windows npm install -g cordva

§  If you’re using mac sudo npm install -g cordova

2.    Then change your directory to the place where you wish to create the project and create your project (FirstApp) using below command.

         cordova create FirstApp com.lightmeal.firstapp FirstApp

3.    Now you have to change your directory to the FirstApp project folder. If not it will give an error message “Currently working directory is not a Cordova base project”?

Time to install the platforms you need to support for your application. In my case I will do it for android. But you can do it for even wp8, windows8, iOS….

          cordova platforms add android

4.    To make sure the selected platforms are installed correctly just type (It will show all the installed platforms and all available platforms for the project).

          cordova platform ls

5.    In future you may need to find out your Cordova version .So to do that just type.

         cordova –v

That’s all for today .In next post we will discuss how to build Cordova android project and emulate/run it :)