How to texture a VBO?

Question

I'm not sure which way is the best way to do this for my purposes.
My purposes being having a textured (with an image) cube.

Also, I've been following a blend of tutorials, so I'm not sure which way is the most right and what I'm doing wrong (currently I haven't had the texture fit right).

1. Do I use glDrawArrays or glDrawElements?

2. For pointers, do I say gl.glVertexPointer(3, GL.GL_FLOAT, 0, vertices); and gl.glTexCoordPointer(2, GL.GL_FLOAT, 0, textureData);
   or
   gl.glVertexPointer(3, GL.GL_FLOAT, 0, 0); and gl.glTexCoordPointer(2, GL.GL_FLOAT, 0, 0);

3. When do I bind/unbind the buffers? (gl.glBindBuffer(GL.GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, VBOVertices); gl.glBindBuffer(GL.GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, vboTextureCoordHandle);) Before I establish the pointers or not in my drawing method at all?

4. Do I need to specify the UV coordinates/Texture Coordinates in the shader? If I'm getting a weirdly stretched texture, does that mean my fragment shader and setting the uniforms is working correctly?

Thank you!
I can supply more code, but I think I just need more information on the basics.

Answer 1

1. Depends whether you use indices(elements) or not (arrays).
2. niether, you should use gl.glVertexPointer(3, GL.GL_FLOAT, stride, (const GLvoid *) offsetOfFirst), unless you lib overrides it ofcourse.
3. no idea, sorry, I use attributes
4. means you pass wrong UVs. To shader you pass only sample location. (make sure UVs are in range 0.0 - 1.0)
5. you really should find alternative tutorial if you dont understand part of one