Question

I originally found Nico’s advice https://github.com/nicokruger/android-maven-phonegap/issues/1 as I was browsing to find a maven repository hosting the phonegap .jar file.

While this put me on the path to adding the jar to my local repository, I ran in to all sorts of issues (Maven newbie here) with errors such as:

• [Error]…Goal requires a project to execute but there is no POM in this directory (Tried adding -DgeneratePom=true to the command line, but this didn’t help)
• [Error]…The packaging for this project did not assign a file to the build artifact

After working through the issues, I came up with these steps to install. However, when I look at my local .m2 repository I only see the pom file created below; no jar file is present.

Thanks!

Environment

• Windows 7
• Apache Maven 3.0.4
• Java version: 1.6.0_31, vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.

Steps (Modified: These are the correct steps now. Thanks to Ryan)

1. Download phonegap 1.7.0 from http://phonegap.com/download

2. Extract to temp folder

3. Navigate to: temp/phonegap-phonegap-475bfd2/lib/android

4. Execute the following at a command prompt:

   mvn install:install-file -Dfile=cordova-1.7.0.jar -DgroupId=org.apache.cordova -DartifactId=phonegap -Dversion=1.7.0 -Dpackaging=jar
   

5. Phonegap (cordova-1.7.0.jar) should now be installed in your local Maven repository

6. In your project pom, add the following to your POM file:

   <dependency>
     <groupId>org.apache.cordova</groupId>
     <artifactId>phonegap</artifactId>
     <version>1.7.0</version>
   </dependency>
   

Answer 1

Drop the pom and use the install-file goal instead, like this:

mvn install:install-file -Dfile=cordova-1.7.0.jar -DgroupId=org.apache.cordova -DartifactId=phonegap -Dversion=1.7.0 -Dpackaging=jar