Have installed ionic box and logged in to the machine. Now what?

ionic -v
v1.1.10

node -v
v0.10.25

cordova -v
3.5.0-0.2.7

I am also trying to create a box from scratch. I will see which path comes to success first. I have gotten Ionic up and running by performing the following:

To get Ionic up and running (successful)
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs
sudo npm install -g cordova
sudo npm install -g bower
sudo npm install -g gulp
npm install -g nvm
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.29.0/install.sh | bash
nvm install 0.12
sudo apt-get install nodejs-legacy
sudo npm install -g ionic

But I haven't understood how to get Android up and running.

I would appreciate help on how to move forward with either. My goal is to be able to build an Android app so that I can copy it to my phone and test it there. I tried my app on Ionic View and got the white screen of death, so I need to test my app with debugging tools.