How to upgrade from phonegap 2.9 to phonegap 3.5 (project directory could not be found error)

Question

I have an android application that i built on PhoneGap 2.7.I installed phonegap 3.5 using cmd and tried to upgrade an app as shown here

How do I upgrade Phonegap in my P

Answer 1

I don't think phonegap platform update works for upgrading from something older than 3.x.

For phonegap/cordova cli to work it has to detect a project with the structure of 3.x projects.

To upgrade your project in 2.x you have to

• install phonegap or cordova cli (which you seem to already have done, but if you don't plan on using phonegap build, I suggest you use cordova instead of phonegap. if not please replace cordova by phonegap in next steps)
• open a cmd and cd to a folder in wich you will want to put your project

• create the new project from the www folder you had in your old project:

  cordova create nameforprojectfolder com.test.app Testapp --copy-from=pathtooldwwwfolder

• change current dir to the newly created folder

• add the android platform:

  cordova platform add android

• in cordova/phonegap 3.x no plugin is added by default so you will have to add all the plugins you use :

  cordova plugin add uri.of.plugin

• customize config.xml to your needs

• build the android project (this will create files in the platforms/android folder)

  cordova build android

• You may need to customize AndroidManifest.xml in platforms/android/AndroidManifest.xml

Now you can use the CLI to work with your project.