The “Getting Started” page for Ionic looks like it’s really simple! But it’s not really and I’ve struggled with this for the whole day, but I finally got it to work. I hope someone finds this useful.

This is for Android development, I don’t have a Mac so I can’t test this for iOS

Download Android SDK
https://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html#download

Add Android SDK to path (adjust this to your actual paths)
export PATH=$PATH:/home/max/development/adt-bundle/sdk/platform-tools:/home/max/development/adt-bundle/sdk/tools

Install JDK
sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk

MORE PATHS (JDK)
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64

Install node.js
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs

Install ant and git
sudo apt-get install ant ant-contrib ant-optional ant-gcj git

Run android and install Android 19

Run android avd to create an Android emulator

Create a project
ionic start myapp tabs
cd myapp
ionic platform add android
ionic emulate android