setup cordova remote dev box

Setup a Remote Cordova Dev Environment

This will take you step-by-step through the process I use to create a Cordova development environment for Android on CentOS 7.2. The remote environment allows me to build my Cordova projects using the same JDK, Android SDK, and Cordova versions. This can be very useful when trying to develop on different computers (laptop and office desktop). It also provides the ability to use a phone or tablet for developing. Just push code changes to the build server, run your build scripts, then download your .apk. I use SFTP or scp depending on what device I am using.

This tutorial is compiled from other separate tutorials referenced at the end.

Install Java JDK

Download and install JDK

cd /opt/
wget --no-cookies --no-check-certificate --header "Cookie: gpw_e24=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oracle.com%2F; oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie" "http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u101-b13/jdk-8u101-linux-x64.rpm"
rpm -ivh ./jdk-8u101-linux-x64.rpm

Export Java Env Vars

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.8.0_101/
export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME

Install Android SDK

Download Latest SDK Tarball

cd /opt
wget http://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r24.4.1-linux.tgz

unzip, rename, permissions, symlink

tar zxvf android-sdk_r24.4.1-linux.tgz
mv android-sdk-linux android-sdk_r24.4.1-linux
chown -R root:root android-sdk_r24.4.1-linux
ln -s android-sdk_r24.4.1-linux android-sdk

Create SDK environment profile

nano /etc/profile.d/android-sdk-env.sh

Add vars to profile

export ANDROID_HOME="/opt/android-sdk"
export PATH="$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools:$PATH"

Load new profile

source /etc/profile.d/android-sdk-env.sh

Update SDK

cd /opt/android-sdk/tools
./android update sdk --no-ui

This is an example.

/opt/android-sdk/tools/android list sdk --all
/opt/android-sdk/tools/android update sdk -u -a -t 1,2,5,28,102,137,138,144

References and Thanks