Sunday, 17 March 2013

setting up android devlopment environment

            Before starting up making money and apps first its required to have your computer ready for making android apps . you will be generating .apk extension files from this environment  which can be uploaded in developer console you dont know about devloper console thats ok you will know it slowly its a place where you will uplaod your apk files and your app will be live in play.google.com for others to view it and download it and people start using your app stopping my self saying further i am making this blog to help my devloping partners to learn as they help me to devlop apps and each time i add a new partner relieve my self from burden of installing devlopment environment in thier computers i will try to make this blog more explanatory and in short cut form strieght to point so that you guys make most of it. and i will be adding  a tutorial here every day explaing a thing from android so that you learn android that will be helpfull for you for futher future

Setting up environment:

lets first list things that we require

1.eclipse its a java based tool so our system must contail java enviroment install how to do it its simple go to java site download and install any jdk its good to have entaire jdk rather than just jre here jdk is java devlopment kit and jre is java run time environment so where to get it

 here is jre link       java jre download

jdk link http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk7-downloads-1880260.html

2.now you need to download eclipse please note that eclipse is not a instalable software rather it is a file that runs and load it self when its started    http://eclipse.org/mobile download eclipse for java devlopers and 32 or 64 bit depending on your system configuaration and its better you use 32 bit one

3. once eclipse is downloaded it will be in rar file extract the files open eclipse folder and press blue color eclipse icon you must see blue screen in center of screen if your not able to see it read the error and act accordingly may be java is missing in your system

4.once eclipse is loaded it will give you a welcome screen you got eclipse now you need a tool called
ADT its android devlopment tool used to download android sdk and emulator and other tools used for making apps

to get ADT in environment go to help -->instal new software you will get image as above you need to paste the follwing code line in highlated pace   https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/    copy as it and you will get ndk tools and ddms select all and press next and finish it will start loading required tools

5. once above is done you must be able to see avd android virtual devise and sdk manager open up sdk manager it will list out all android sdk versions download few its better you download 1.5 and 4.3 and 2.3 and 2.2 and other as many as you want accept and instal

then your app is ready making first app though installed environment for tommrow



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