Honestly I've struggled with the PhoneGap SDK based on the official guide provided on the PhoneGap website with a few version releases. First it was PhoneGap 2.0.0 and now PhoneGap 2.7.0. I'm running Windows 7 Professional 64-bit and I have picked the Android SDK (which uses Eclipse) to be my main development environment. I personally prefer the ADT (Android Developer Tools) as it is much more easier to setup on my machine.
After I have gone through few rounds of setting up PhoneGap development machines, I decided to document all the compulsory and "working" steps here to help those who have got themselves lost in the journey too. The latest guide of Getting Started with Android (release of PhoneGap 2.7.0) doesn't seem to work in my case for whatever reason. Hence I fell back on the earlier version of guide (release of PhoneGap 2.1.0) which proved to be still working with the latest release 2.7.0 to date.
