Post on 30-Dec-2015
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• Google's Android is an open-source platform that's currently available on a wide variety of smart phones.
• Android is a software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications.
• The Android SDK provides the tools and APIs necessary to begin developing applications on the Android platform using the Java programming language.
• Based on the Linux kernel
What is Android?
1. Install JDK 1.6 or above
2. Installing Eclipse IDE
3. Install Android SDK
4. Install the ADT plugin for eclipse
5. Add components needed for development
Installation Packages
What is Eclipse?
A multi-language software development environment
comprising
An integrated development environment (IDE)
Mostly written in Java
Eclipse is used to develop applications
In Java, C, C++, Perl, PHP, Python, R, etc.
For Android (using Java)
Download at http://bit.ly/EclipseClassic
Install Eclipse
For the Android SDK to be installed
The machine should have at least jdk 1.6
Version 1.7 is also ok
Then download the installer file from
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
The installer cannot locate the jdk
Just click the "Back" button and then "Next"
It should work
Install SDK and JDK
Use the Update Manager feature of Eclipse
To install the latest revision of AVD on your development computer
How to download it?
Start Eclipse, then select Help > Install New Software -> Add, in the top-right corner
In the Add Repository
Enter "ADT Plugin" for the Name
Copy for location https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/
Install AVD
In the Available Software dialog
Select the checkbox next to Developer Tools and click Next
In the next window, you'll see a list of the tools to be downloaded
Click Next
Read and accept the license agreements
Then click Finish
Restart Eclipse
Install AVD
To create virtual device
Open Eclipse -> Window -> AVD Manager
Open the Android Virtual Device manager
Add new device
With the Android OS version needed
Why need AVD?
To test your app before deployment to a phone
To test on different versions of Android OS
To find and correct simple mistakes
Create New AVD
Give it some name Better add the OS version
Add SD card Size Select OS version You are done!
Create New ADV
Project Components
src – your source code gen – auto-generated code (usually just R.java) Included libraries Resources
Drawables (like .png images) Layouts Values (like strings)
Manifest file
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