Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Setting up Android development environment on your computer

Simple process, but you should have good internet bandwidth. Any Indian-broadband connection is fine!

The below link guides you step by step
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

Few things to remember:

If your sdk manager shows only few entries as below, don't  get panic! Proxy settings might be the problem. I will tell you how to setup proxy settings for sdk manager.

Installing Eclipse:

If you need to install Eclipse, you can download it from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/. We recommend the "Eclipse Classic" version. Otherwise, you should use a Java or RCP version of Eclipse.




When you download eclipse, you will get a zip file. Unzip it. Just double click on eclipse-SDK-3.7.2-win32\eclipse\eclipse.exe file to open eclipse. There is no installation required for eclipse.
When it asks for the workspace name, leave default value there and proceed.