karniv0re's Journal: More Cordova Hell

By now, I am desperate.

This fucking app has advanced exactly 0 measurable units in the last 3 weeks. I have tried a lot of things, but I always get stopped a few steps in by more shit breaking. This is insanity.

I'm going to continue documenting my struggle, in the hopes that I figure something out and am able to articulate why this has taken so long.

Objective
Since the app I have is completely fucked as-is, I need to start small and add in. I will start with a clean slate. A sample app. My goal, by the end of this, is to have a working app that can take
a picture with my phone's camera. Doesn't have to do much else.

I will start with this sample app:

        git clone https://github.com/gizur/cordova-camera-example

Obeying the readme.md, I started in the directory and did

        npm install

        cd www

sh.exe": cd: www: No such file or directory
Great. I'll assume he means www-src and move on.

        cd www-src
        bower install

sh.exe": bower: command not found

        npm install -g bower

        bower install

bower retry Request to https://bower.herokuapp.com/packages/remote failed with ECONNRESET, retrying in 1.6s ...

Googled grunt ECONNRESET: https://github.com/bower/bower/issues/467

Googled "where is .gruntrc", because honestly, I don't even know where npm is putting shit. Find out it's in AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\bower

Settled on home directory.

Trying to update .gruntrc.
Error: Windows Explorer tells me I can't do that and that I must type a filename.
Find out, I can't do that in Explorer and have to do it on the command line.

        mv bowerrc.txt .bowerrc

Added to .bowerrc:

{
    "directory": "library",
    "registry": "http://bower.herokuapp.com",
    "proxy":"http://:@:/",
    "https-proxy":"http://:@:/"
}

        bower install
        cd ..

        cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-console

Error: Current working directory is not a Cordova-based project.

And at this point, I'm realizing this isn't going to work.

Starting over.

https://github.com/apache/cordova-app-hello-world

        cordova platform add android --save
        cordova build android --verbose

Copy platform\android\build\outputs\apk\android-debug.apk to phone and try to install.

Error: App not installed
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4226132/app-not-installed-error-on-android

Deleted old app and tried again. App installed.

Now I'm back to a starting point.