Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Setting up Android Development Environment

Hi guys,

This is my first blog in android Development. It was a little tricky from android home website to setup the environment so i thought of writing a blog for you as well as for me... :)
I'll start sharing with "how to set up Android Development Environment". You can also suggest topics for other blogs. I'll try my best to stay as simple as i can...

Ok now:
For Android Development you just need a pc, Android really make it easy to develop and test in emulator not like symbian which take much time only in loading. Android emulator is very powerfull, almost every application can be tested in emulator.

There are total of 3 downloads to be done...

First of all, download "Eclipse for Java" from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ as Android is in Java... Simple unzip it to C:\program files\ or any where else.

Download Starter package for Android SDK from http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html. Unzip it and run the SDKManager.exe. Select the version of sdk which you want to work with. I prefer to download two versions 1.5 and 2.1/2.2

The last download is the ADT plugin for eclipse. which is a bit tricky. Goto Help->Install New Software and press Add. Insert this in address tab :  "https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/". It will show "Developer Tools", select all and press Finish; Downloading will start. Restart Eclipse after installation....


Also set the android sdk location in Window->Preference->Android in Eclipse.


Thats it.... You have set the Android Development Environment... 


Note: Above is not the only way to develop for android. its just what i thinks to be easy to configure...


Feel free to ask any thing... your comments will be highly appreciated.


Regards,
Farhan Ahmad