Open the command-line tool and create a new PhoneGap project named MapSample:

$ cordova create MapSample

Change the working directory to the newly created project:

$ cd MapSample

Add the required platform to the project. For example, we will add Android to this project:

$ cordova platform add android

Add the Geolocation API plugin using the following command:

$ cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-geolocation

Go to the www folder, open the index.html file, remove all the existing content, and add a div element with the id value as #map inside the body tag:

<div id='map'></div>

Include the cordova.js file that will be added to the app at runtime:

<script type="text/javascript" src="cordova.js"></script>

Add a new script tag to include the Google Maps JavaScript library. Replace the YOUR_API_KEY value with your actual...