At the beginning..
I know this question has been asked too many times and ... I checked all the ansers on SO. I tried every combination and every solution I found, but so far nothing has worked.
Problem
I have successfully installed Cordova by downloading it from the official website, and I am following the Guide.
I added the wp8 platform in the first place. Then I also tried to add android.
After running the cordova platform add android command, I got the following error.
Error: executing command 'ant', make sure you have ant installed and added to your path.
Here is a screenshot with detailed information:
My efforts
I installed ANT, the latest Java JDK, and added all the necessary Enviroment variables to my system.
ANT and JAVA both execute perfectly from any source path.
ant -version outputs
Apache Ant (TM) version 1.9.4 compiled April 29, 2014
java -version outputs
HotSpot (TM) 64-bit Java Server Virtual Machine (build 25.5-b02, mixed mode)
Environment Variables
I set every necessary variable. From ANT_HOME to PATH. Everything is as it should be
ANT_HOME: C:\Program Files\Ant JAVA_HOME: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_05 ANDROID_HOME: C:\Users\Kevin\Desktop\Cellulare\Development\sdk PATH: %JAVA_HOME%\bin;%ANT_HOME%\bin;%ANDROID_HOME%\platform-tools;%ANDROID_HOME%\tools;
As everyone sees, I also added android platform-tools and tools to my PATH . The same goes for Ant and Java (\ bin dirs).
Needless to say, but every path is right.
Having said that, why is it still not working? I also restarted my computer, but without any results.
Decision
Thanks Kerri Shotts .
My problems were from those gaps in my ways.
So, I changed C:\Program Files\... to C:\Progra~1\...
IMPORTANT!
I also noticed that there were 2 □ characters in my lines. Like this ..\C□□ellulare\.. They probably came from the wrong copy-paste format. After fixing these things, everything worked!