Quickest way to build phonegap apps

[DaveB]

Hi all,

Apologies if this has been asked before. I am trying to get my head around what the fastest build solution for phonegap is? Do you really have to upload to phonegap build AND wait for it to build AND re-install the app on the device AND run it again, every time you make a change? That sounds like a very slow way to develop...?

Could anybody suggest a quicker way to develop with phonegap?

many thanks

David

[jcesarmobile]

Which platform?

if you have a mac you can deploy and install directly to the device (ios, android and blackberry)
if you have windows you can do the same to android, blackberry, wp.

There is no need to use phonegap build, only if you don't want to setup your pc or you don't have a mac and want iOS apps, or don't have windows and you want wp apps

[Libby]

There are many options that are not phonegap build. "Build" is Adobe's

solution for cross-platform build for as many platforms as you support.

You probably have a preferred development environment already..

and that env may support deployment, depending on platform(s).

My company has a cloud solution, AppLaud Cloud, for Android, which

makes development, debug and deploy pretty easy, if your app is

pure HTML/CSS/JS. With the companion app, AppLaud App, you can

run the app on the device immediately after saving code file.

We also have an Eclipse Solution for full on Android development.

Cheers,

Libby

[DaveB]

Thank you all; your answers have been helpful.

I now realise that one develops and debugs via (in the case of Android on Windows) eclipse; then you can use phonegap build to build apps for other OS's (ie. IOS/WP) if you don't want to setup a mac etc. to compile those. That sounds straight-forward enough.

AppLaud is also interesting; it looks like we'd be able to push our apps to phones faster that way... I will also look at that.

thanks

David