Installing Android

ByDurai. S

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Installing Android

● Java JDK/JRE

● Eclipse IDE

● ADT Plugin for Eclipse

● Android SDK

Java

Before you download Android SDK make sure that you have installed Java jdk 5 or 6 on your machine.

If else open the terminal and type

sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jdk

Eclipse IDE

● Eclipse is the most popular open source IDE for Java developers.

● An ADT plug-in must be added to customize the eclipse IDE for android

development.

● Eclipse can be downloaded from

http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/

ADT PLUG-IN FOR ECLIPSE

● Android Development Tools (ADT) is a plug-in for Eclipse IDE which helps

us to build Android application using Eclipse.

● ADT extends the capabilities of Eclipse to let you quickly set up new

Android projects, debug your applications using the Android SDK tools.

● ADT Plugin can be directly added from eclipse.

Installing ADT

● STEP 1:

Goto help->Install New Software

Installing ADT

● STEP 2: Add website to download ADT

https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/

Installing ADT

● STEP 3: Click okay and then next in the subsequent windows.

Android SDK

A software development kit that enables developers to create applications for the

Android platform.

SDK include:

● Device emulator

● Debugger

● Samples

● Tools

Android SDK

Download the Android SDK from Android’s developer Website :

http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

Extract the downloaded tar file and save it in your preferred location.

Installing SDK

● Step 4: Open Eclipse and then goto windows->preferences

Installing SDK

● Select Android, then Browse and locate the extracted SDK file and click OK.

Android SDK Manager

● New API's can be downloaded from Android SDK Manager

● Click on the SDK manager icon(highlighted in Red color in

the image below) to get the SDK Manager Window.

● Select some API's and hit install button.

SDK Manager

Emulator

● New Emulator can be created using Android AVD Manager.

● Click on the AVD manager icon(highlighted in Red color in

the image below) to get the AVD window.

● Click on the new button.

● Name the emulator with your convenient name, select the

desired target from the drop down and mention the SD Card

size(minimum 10Mib) and hit Create AVD button.

Emulator

Emulator

Emulator

● Click on start button to lunch the emulator.

Emulator