Phonegap / Cordova - set up and 1st app experience

follow installation steps
http://docs.phonegap.com/en/edge/guide_cli_index.md.html#The%20Command-Line%20Interface

download and install android adt-bundle. add tools and platform-tools dir in sys path
install nodejs
install apache ANT. add path to sys PATH
add Java JDK dir to JAVA_HOME sys variable

restart pc
command prompt
npm install -g cordova (if referring to phonegap docs online: for cordova,. just replace all "phonegap" with "cordova")

phonegap / cordova app installed in user dir, eg
C:\Users\{USERNAME}\AppData\Roaming\npm

cordova create hello com.example.hello "HelloWorld"
    $ cd hello
    $ cordova platform add android
    $ cordova build

still need to download cordova library for www & android. may be for first time use

open eclipse
"import existing Android code to workspace"

Clean project to remove errors and build and run.