Ionic Framework quick setup (Ubuntu 12.04, Elementary Luna)

09 juli, 2014

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


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