title: Developing with Eclipse and Phonegap/Cordova 3
body: <p>It seem the documentation is a bit thin and I assure you I have tried to find this online, but I really don't get how the development process is supposed to work with phonegap and eclipse.</p>
  
  <p>I followed one of the many tutorials and created the Hello World example using the the cordova command line. I then added the android platform and ran the build. After that, I added the andoridy bit as a project in eclipse with respect to existing source as instructed using the subdirectory platforms/android directory. This allowed me to set up the emulator and all worked very well.</p>
  
  <p>The problem I now have is with the development process. </p>
  
  <p>I understand that I have to edit the top level files, not the ones presented in the assets directory of the project in eclipse as these are created using the "build" command. These top level files don't exist in the project I've created in eclipse as they are above the root of the project.</p>
  
  <p>So, my question is ... can I use eclipse to develop this project in a sensible way?</p>
  
  <p>What I'm doing at the moment is editing the android www files and then to pump it up to the cloud build, I'm copying them back up the tree. This seems insane.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way of having the real files available in eclipse so I can develop them and then build and deploy to an emulator easily?</p>
  
  <p>PS is it my imagination or does cordova build take ages!</p>
  
  <p><strong>Solution</strong></p>
  
  <p>I added a folder within the Android project which is a link to the location of the www in the root. This is under advanced options of creating a folder.</p>