A key factor that made me choose Android as a platform on which to learn to develop, is the extreme simplicity and ease of installation development tools, download from the very first Hello World. I can try to retrace the steps taken by key http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing.html .
System Requirements
If you decide to develop on Windows platform, know that I performed the procedure on Windows XP SP3, very ancient operating system, so we can safely say that there are no requirements regarding the system operational.
Operating System: XP - Vista - MacOSX 10.5.8 - Linux
Disk Space: 1700 MB
Internet connection: at least during installation
Download installation packages
next step is to download the required installation packages, which are basically three: the Integrated Development Environment Eclipse, the Java Developer Kit and Android Software Developer Kit
- Eclipse Classic 3.5.2 from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ (166 MB)
- Android SDK R06 from http:// developer.android.com / sdk / (23 MB)
- Java Developer Kit from 1.60 http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/ (79 MB)
- Java Developer Docs Kit from http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/ (58 MB)
the end the folder of downloaded packages should look like in this picture.
Installing packages
The order of installing packages is as follows:
- JDK
- Unzip the docs Eclipse JDK
- Android SDK
Once completed, installations there are in fact other downloads that will be performed during configuration of the various packages.
Installing ADT plugin for Eclipse
This Eclipse plugin development system allows you to configure virtually Eclipse development platform Android, in a completely automatic.
To install: Open Eclipse
- Help / Install New Software / Add ..
- the dialog that opens put
- Name: Android Plugin
- Location: https: / / dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse /
- you check the checkbox to Developer Tools and proceeds
- Once finished restart Eclipse
- Windows / Preferences / Android
- You set the correct SDK Location
- Confirm and you're done
Installation platforms
To install the platforms you need to run the configuration tool content nell'Android SDK, called Android SDK and AVD Manager directly from the Windows menu of Eclipse. In the main screen you must tick all items that are obsolete, so to download to your computer all platforms that Android will ever serve. At the end
installed packages will appear roughly as in the image below.
Next Steps
The official procedure for Android recommended as the next step to enter, compile and run the first application, following the Hello World tutorial . It 's very simple and fast, and makes sure you have correctly installed the entire system development.
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