I just started my adventure in Android development (I’m not a big fan, you know I love maemo in my old Nokia N900) a few days ago so I want to share with you my little experience first of all with the installation of SDK..

First of all, you need jdk, you can get it from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

Once you have jdk, you need Eclipse, you may have it already and if not, here’s the link http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ (Classic)

Ok, we are almost done.. now that you have Eclipse you need Android SDK, download it from http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

Once you have installed Android SDK launch the SDK Manager, you should see something like this

There you can choose the version(s) you are targeting, for now Google and Iktwo recommends 2.1, you can choose whatever you want, even all of them..

*Some packages ask for a user and password, this happens with APIs by third party companies, if you are not registered and don’t want to just skip them..

Once the installation it’s finished you are almost done, you just need to install ADT Plugin for Eclipse as it’s mentioned here http://developer.android.com/sdk/eclipse-adt.html

Go to Help > Install New Software…

Click Add… you will see something like this

Name: ADT Plugin

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

Click OK, you will see Developers Tools section, check it and click next, after you installed the plugin you need to restart Eclipse, then a configuration dialog for the Android SDK should be launched, there you need to set the location of the SDK (you can see it in the SDK manager) and that’s it, you should be able to create a new Android project

Summary:

• Install Eclipse
• Install Android SDK and download the packages for the version you are targeting
• Install ADT Plugin

You still need to connect a real device or create an Android Virtual Device with AVD Manager, I’ll cover that later..

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