Demonstrate the build process of the Android development environment, without the need to configure environment variables. All software is the latest version when writing this article
A related download
(1) Java JDK Download:
Go to this page: http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp (or click to download directly) such as:
Select the Download jdk to download only the JDK, without downloading the JRE.
(2) Eclipse download
Go to this page: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/(or click Download: bt download http download) such as:
We chose the first one (ie Eclipse IDE for Java EE developers)
(3) Download Android SDK
Description: Android SDK Two download version, one contains the specific version of the SDK, one is only the upgrade tool, not the specific version of the SDK, the latter is about 20 m, the previous one of more than 70 m.
Full Download (Android SDK 2.1 R01) Upgrade Download (This is recommended, this example is the use of this is not a specific version of this, the version you want to upgrade in Eclipse).
Two software Installation
(1) Install JDK 6u19 installation is complete, no need to configure environment variables
(2) Decompression Eclipse Eclipse without installation, after decompression, directly open the line
(3) Unzip the Android SDK this does not need to install, unzip for later use
(4) Eventually there are three folders, such as:
Three Eclipse configuration
1 Installing the Android development plugin
(1) Open Eclipse and select Help->install New software on the menu bar to see the following interface:
Click the Add button and the following screen appears
Input URL: https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/(If an error occurs, change HTTPS to HTTP)
Name: Android (can be customized here)
Click OK and the following screen will appear
Click the Next button and the following screen appears:
Click the Next button and the following screen appears:
Select I Accept the terms of the license agreements click Next and go to the Install plugin interface
After the installation is complete, the following interface appears
Click the Yes button to restart Eclipse
2 Configuring the Android SDK
(1) Click on the menu window->preferences to enter the following screen
Choose your Android SDK after the extracted directory, the wrong choice will be error, this is the upgrade tool, there is no version of the SDK
(2) To upgrade the SDK version, select the menu Window->android SDK and AVD Manager appear the following interface
Select the Update All button and the following interface appears
Select an item on the left, click on the installation, click Reject to not install, I only choose the SDK 2.1 and samples for API 7, I can arbitrarily customize, OK, select the Install button, enter the installation interface as follows:
The installation is completed as follows:
(3) Create a new AvD (Android Vitural device) as above, go to Android SDK and AVD Manager, check vitural Devices when clicking on the New button
After clicking the New button, go to the following screen:
The name can be easily taken, target select the SDK version you need, SD card size customization, click Create AVD, get the following results
Create AVD complete as shown above
3 New Android Project
(1) Select Menu File->new->other to enter the following interface:
Select New Android Project project, click Next button to enter the following screen
Name customization, application name customization, registration must contain more than one point, Min SDK version must enter an integer
Click Next to display the following screen:
Note: If there is an error such as: Project ... is missing required source folder: ' Gen ', then gen->android.test->r.java this file is deleted and eclipse will regenerate it for us Files, and will not error.
(3) configuration operation
The right-click Project->run AS-a Run Configuration enters the following interface:
The interface, click the Browse button, select the item you want to run
Select target to switch to the following interface
This interface selects the AVD that is running and sets the box in front of the AVD to the selected state.
(4) test project run
Right-click the project name->run as->android application to start running the Android program as follows:
are entering
Test program Run Results
Four concluding remarks
At this point, the Android development environment has been built, please leave a message. Here to note, I just download the ANDROID SDK R4 upgrade tool, not download the specific SDK, but through the eclipse inside the ANDROID SDK management tool upgrade, you can also directly download the specific SDK version , such as: android sdk 2.1 r1 above has this download link, but I task with upgrade tool better.