Today I started looking at building a mobile web app for the Samsung Galaxy Tab. After a little research it looks like I'll be using

• Eclipse Helios
• Phonegap
• jQuery Mobile

I fiddled around with the Phonegap Sample app at first and then found http://thoughtsunlimited.net/intro-to-jquery-mobile/ which outlines a simple jQuery Mobile application.

Another thing worth installing is the MDS PhoneGap for Android Plug-In 1.1. This makes starting a Phonegap/Android project as easy as pie! See http://wiki.phonegap.com/w/page/34483744/PhoneGap-Eclipse-PlugIn-for-Android

Gotchas!

I ran into a couple of gotchas trying to get my first app up and running.

The first one is related Eclipse. Make sure you start with the Eclipse for Java version. I started with the PHP version and ran into all sorts of issues with package dependencies and conflict when I tried to install the MDS PhoneGap for Android Plug-In. 

Another one was the order which the Phonegap and jQuery Mobile .js libraries were included. The following order works for me:

<script src="jquery.mobile/jquery-1.4.4.min.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="phonegap.js">

</script><script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="main.js"></script>

<script src="jquery.mobile/jquery.mobile-1.0a2.min.js"></script>

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