ionic installation on windows 7 & 8

Installing Android and Cordova dependencies for Ionic Development 

 http://learn.ionicframework.com/videos/windows-android/ 

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/mobile-frameworks/ 

Hassle Free Installationof Ionic Framework on Windows 7,8 Platform

Requirement:

1.     Java : install java

Go to https://java.com/en/download/   and install java

Preferable Location:

C:\Program Files\Java

Rename package to JDK(instead of jdk_version) and java will ask you for JRE location install in same folder

2.     Apache ant: install Apache ant binary distribution

Go to http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi  and download

apache-ant-1.9.4-bin binary distribution

Preferable Location:

C:\apache-ant-1.9.4

3.     Nodejs : install nodejs

Go to http://nodejs.org/ and install nodejs

Preferable Location:

C:\Program Files\nodejs

4.     Android SDK: install Android SDK not Android Studio

Go to http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html and download install SDK (Install Stand Alone SDK)

Preferable Location:

C:\Program Files\Android

Go to C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk

Right click on SDK manager, and Run As Administarator

Otherwise go to command prompt and type “android”

It will show you SDK manager

 

 

5.     Cordova:

Open command prompt and type

npm install –g cordova

it will install cordova package on machine

6.     Ionic

Open command prompt  and type

npm install –g ionic

it will install ionic on system

Well Upto This You have Everything Installed on your machine

Now next part in adding and checking Environment variables for all above locations.

I just like to write this part separately because It will help you to Install everything without any problem and you can start building projects in ionic .

Environment variable:

Right click mycomputer

Properties

Advance system setting

Environment variable (USER VARIABLES NOT SYSTEM VARIABLES)

         

Click on  New and Add as follow:

Variable name: ANDROID_HOME

Variable value: C:\Program Files\Android;C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\;C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\platforms;C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools;C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\tools;

Click on  New and Add as follow:

Variable name: JAVA_HOME

Variable value: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk7 (please Note do not include semicolon

at the end of the line like “;”)

Then Edit Path and add Following values :

C:\Program Files\nodejs;C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm;C:\Program Files\Android;C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk;C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\platforms;C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools;C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\tools;C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\platforms\android-19;C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\platforms;C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk7\bin;C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\tools;C:\apache-ant-1.9.4\bin;C:\Program Files\nodejs;C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\system-images;