Android: First Step (Setup)

If you are here, then i am sure that you must be the one with thoughts of playing with android next.

I am heading to explore the android next and on the way will write about my findings about it. Also, I will try to provide the steps followed from scratch just for the guidance for a few novice.

So here is my first in this series, Setup for Android.

1. Download the Android SDK.
2. Once you downloaded the zip file(in first step), unzip it in your development folder(For ex: C:\android) and execute SDK Setup.exe file. It will open “Android SDK and AVD Manager”.
3. As soon as you launch, it will start downloading packaging from internet. In case, it failed(like in my case), select “Settings” on the left panel and from the two available checkboxes at bottom, select “Force https…”.
4. Now come back to “Installed Packages” and click on “Update All…” again.
5. Select the packages that you want to work on(See list below for my choice). In case you are unsure, just click on “Accept All” on the right side of the window.
6. Now it will start downloading the packages required which will take a while.

List of packages to download:

• Documentation for Android SDK, API 8, revision 1
• SDK Platform Android 2.2, API 8, revision 2
• Samples for SDK API 8, revision 1
• Google APIs by Google Inc., Android API 8, revision 2
• SDK Platform Android 2.1-update1, API 7, revision 2
• Samples for SDK API 7, revision 1
• Google APIs by Google Inc., Android API 7, revision 1
• USB Driver package, revision 3
• Market Licensing package, revision 1

Eclipse ADT Plugin:

Install/update this ADT plugin using this URL: https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/

Configuring ADT Plugin:

1. Select Windows > Preferences
2. Select Android on left panel
3. Update the sdk location to sdk folder as you did above(For Ex: C:\android\android-sdk-windows)
4. Press Apply and Ok. You are done configuring ADT Plugin.

And yes.. You are done with your First Step (Setup) here.

In the next post, we will create a Hello World app using Eclipse ADT Plugin.

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