Okay, now since we have our IDE and Android development environment in place, we can dive Developing a small UI based application:.Once downloads are over, you are done with setting up the environment □ Now sit back and relax till your downloads get completed. To add platforms and components, fire up your Eclipse IDE, select Windows>Android SDK and AVD manager (make sure path of Android SDK is set via preferences>Android option)>Available Packages >select the required platforms and components and hit install selected. Once you are through with installing ADT for Eclipse, you now have to add platforms and other components for application development.To install ADT, you can use Eclipse’s package manager (refer steps from here…note: when installing on Linux, if you run into dependencies can’t be resolved problems then you might need to install Google plugin from here) Okay, so now once you started Eclipse, you need to install the ADT (Android Development Tools) plugin to start up with the development. I prefer Eclipse as I feel comfortable with it and also Android application development integration is great. One can use other IDE(s) like IntelliJIDEA(if any other exist besides Idea and Eclipse, do let me know) or in fact can develop without any IDE if wants to. Association between Eclipse and Android is just great. Now start up the Eclipse IDE (You can download it from here). On linux, make sure you are the owner of the directory in which the files are unzipped or untarred) Download the Android SDK (according to your preferred OS platform) from here( It is the initial tool and doesn’t actually help in development of application as it does not provide any android platform or third party tool- read the “readme” for further details) and unzip/untar it to a favorite safe location in your machine (Windows version has an exe also.For system requirements, refer System Requirements. I am going to cover up the steps in as simple way as possible. provides a great documentation for setting up the Android. Setting up Android SDK:Setting up Android is not at all a daunting task.I am going to divide the whole blog into two sections, Setting up of Android SDK and development of a small application for Android. Okay, so to start with we need to setup environment for Android application development. I decided to write this blog so that other newbies like me can read it and after reading it can actually create more than a hello world application. I am still a newbie on Android platform (a recent adapter in fact). Today I am going to talk about application development on Android platform. Now lets get down with the actual business. So, apologies for any kind of mistakes committed :p
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