Android Development Environment Building

As the saying goes: 工欲善其事, its prerequisite, if we want to learn to develop Android, we must first find a development tool. We can choose Eclipse as our development environment, and many people know that using eclipse as the development environment, but a lot of people download it and don't know how to configure it, this time I'll introduce you.

1 Downloads Eclipse

This reader can go to the Eclipse official online to download, download and unzip directly.

2 download JDK

This is downloaded on Oracle's official website and it is recommended to download the latest version, as some things will not be supported on the lower version.

3 Downloads Android-sdk

We can download it in this website: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html.

We can see that the SDK above is available for download, and we select the downloaded version according to our own system of use. The download is a zipped package that extracts it to a folder. Then we found the following icon in the folder:

Double-click to open, and then you can choose to download the JDK, we can download according to their own needs, generally recommended starting from 1.6 download, because it is possible that we developed software installed on the lower version of the phone.

Here we know that what we download on the Android official website is not the real android-sdk, but rather a ANDROID-SDK management tool, so the name is called Sdkmanger. Download this if you choose More, the download will be very slow, it is recommended that the time to download.

4 Downloads ADT

ADT is a plugin we use on eclipse, we can search the download for Baidu. The ADT we need to download here corresponds to the version of ANDROID-SDK we downloaded. ADT does not need decompression. Of course ADT as an Eclipse plug-in can be installed online, the reader himself Baidu a bit.

5 Configuring Eclipse

1) Installing ADT

Click Help--install New Software on the Eclipse menu bar and see:

Click Add and you'll see:

Fill in the name and click Archive ... button to find the ADT compression package you downloaded. Then confirm, and then restart Eclipse after the next final installation is complete.

2) configuration Android-jdk

After opening eclipse, select Window window--Preferences, open then there will be an android on the left, see such as:

We select our Android-sdk folder from the button at the back of the SDK location and click OK. So our Android development environment is built.

This article turns from http://blog.csdn.net/mengxiangyue/article/details/6930284,

Android Development Environment Building