Building BlackBerry PhoneGap Applications

The default PhoneGap project includes an Ant script that manages the process of building the application plus some additional tasks that help with testing and deploying a PhoneGap application. The script is in a file called build.xml, and it is located in the root of the PhoneGap project folder. I’ll cover the options for that particular file in a minute.

Beginning with PhoneGap 1.3, the PhoneGap development team added support for WebWorks tablet applications (applications built for the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet). With older versions of PhoneGap, all of the supported build processes were implemented in the build.xml file. Beginning with PhoneGap 1.3, the Ant script (described later) calls out to the blackberry.xml or playbook.xml file depending on the platform for which the application is being built.