As I recently posted, I’ve decided to expand my skillset and learn about Android Development.
My first step was to chat with a friend of mine who has done some work in Android development just to figure out where to begin looking. He graciously shared some resources that he used. Yes, he even told me that the “Android Development for Dummies
So of course the next step is: Install the needed tools.
I found that the Android Developers site has a good outline of what you need to do in this article: Installing the SDK
The tools you need are pretty simple but the install takes a few steps. You need the following tools:
- Java SDK
- Android SDK
- Eclipse IDE
- ADT Plug-in for Eclipse (optional)
The article does a great job of outlining how to set the environment up.
NOTE: Issue that I ran into on this – when you attempt to install the ADT plug-in in Windows 7… make sure to run Eclipse as the Administrator. Otherwise, I got an error that said something about the components not being available.
So, now that I have it installed… it’s time to actually start building something. We’ll see.
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