Tag: android

Cordova, Facebook, Android and no Eclipse

This post relates to creating an Android application with Facebook support (via phonegap-facebook-plugin using Cordova 3.5 and, specifically, without Eclipse. Most existing documentation expects you to spin up Eclipse to link the Facebook libraries – but, we’re using an automated build system with Grunt so that’s not a possibility.

Firstly – the steps to get it working:

  1. Add the Cordova Facebook plugin: 
    cordova plugin add https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-facebook-plugin \
    --variable APP_ID="1234567890" 
    --variable APP_NAME="Test App"
  2. Edit platforms/android/project.properties and add: 
    android.library.reference.2=FacebookLib

    where n is the next available reference index. Also note the target parameter here as you’ll need it next:

  3. Update the Android project for the plugin: 
    cd platforms/andoird/FacebookLib
android update project --target android-19 -p .

     where android-19 should match the target parameter from above.

  4. Prepare and build your application: 
    cordova prepare android
cordova compile android