Android Simple Development Tutorial Two: Install development environment

The previous Android Concise development tutorial One: Overview briefly introduces the Android platform, this article describes how to install the Android development environment.

Android Development supports Windows (Windows XP (32-bit), Vista (32-, 64-bit), Windows 7 (32-, 64-bit)), Mac OS (>10.5.8), Linux (Ubu NTU Linux, Lucid Lynx etc). The most common development of Java applications is Netbean and Eclispe. But the Google recommendation is eclipse. Although there are Netbean plug-ins that support Android, the compatibility is not very good. So it's best to use Eclipse.

Install the latest version of the JDK, only the JRE (Java Runtime) is not enough: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

Download Eclipse 3.3 (Europa), 3.4 (Ganymede): http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/

Download the latest version of Android sdk:http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

Download the latest version of the Eclipse ADT plugin: http://developer.android.com/sdk/eclipse-adt.html#installing

Add Android platform and other components. After installing the ADT plug-in, select the Android SDK and AVD Manager under Eclipse's Windows menu.

In avaiable Packages Select the Android platform you want to install and some tools, if your hard drive is big enough, the easy way is to select it all, and even though the Android app can be developed using an emulator, the final test will be on the phone. To be able to run debugging on the device, make sure that Google Usb Driver Package is selected. It can also be installed as needed, and the Android SDK and AVD Manager can run multiple updates.

Create a simulator to manage the Android emulator under virtual Devices

When you create the simulator, you specify the version of the target Android platform, which currently has a version of Android from 1.5 to 2.3, generally with a high version of backward compatibility. You can create a virtual machine for different versions of the Android platform, and it is recommended that you create more than two, which is more convenient for testing sms,phone call applications.

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