Download Android SDK/ADT

ADT Bundle Download

The Android ADT provides you access to the API libraries and development tools necessary to build, test, and debug any application developed on Android.

If you are new to Android development, and unaware and don't wanna do lengthy setup of android SDK then I will recommend you to download the ADT Bundle to quickly starting the android application developing. It includes the essential Android SDK components and a version of the Eclipse IDE with built-in ADT (Android Developer Tools) to streamline your Android app development.

DOWNLOAD ANDROID ADT Bundle

With a single download of ATD, you will have the access to below tools you will need to begin developing android application:

1. Eclipse + ADT plugin
2. Android SDK Tools
3. Android Platform-tools
4. A version of the Android platform
5. A version of the Android system image for the emulator

SDK Download

If you are not willing to work on eclipse and require a sdk for your android application development then use below link to download the SDK and use your own(any other than eclipse) IDE and set the SDK in their preferences.

DOWNLOAD ANDROID SDK

Setting UP Android Environment

Installing the Android Development kit

Download ADT, which stands for Android Development Kit, ADT Bundle provides everything you need to start developing apps, including the Android SDK tools and a version of the Eclipse IDE with built-in ADT (Android Developer Tools) to streamline your Android app development.

If you didn't yet downloaded the ADT bundle, Please use download the Eclipse ADT bundle, or switch to the Android Studio install or stand-alone SDK Tools install instructions.

To set up the ADT Bundle:

1. UnZIP the ZIP file named as adt-bundle-<os_platform>.zip as a downloaded ADT bundle and save it to an appropriate location, like "Development" directory.
2. Open the adt-bundle-<os_platform>/eclipse/ directory and launch Eclipse.

Warning!!!

Please don't change the SDK folder, which may lead to SDK unavailability that can be then manually set through eclipse preferences.

Getting Started with Android Development

Welcome to my blog with which I will try to help you for Android application development. Here you'll find sets of lessons that describe how to accomplish a specific task with some simple and easy to follow samples and you can re-use in your app with out any hesitation. I organised the whose samples and classes into several groups you can find the top-level of the left navigation.

This first article will help you the bare essentials for Android application development. If you're a new Android app developer, you should complete each of these classes in order:

Setting UP Android Environment: After the decision of making and learning the android development/programming this will be the first step to learn that how to setting up the development environment.

What are basics of Android development: This is the first building block of android development, what is activity, intent.

Building your first Android Application: After you've installed the Android SDK, start with this class to learn the basics about Android app development.

Android Pre-requisite

Learning Android development is very easy and I found it very simple and inline with what we do in daily life(Obviously java development), So for getting started lets start with its pre-requisites and then we go to learn more and more about application.

Android Development pre-requisites:

1. Experience on Java Development: Since development of android is majorly done on Java, so it is good to have some experience on Java development, which will help in familarise you with terms used in learning the android.
2. Experience on XML Programming: It is good to have the XML programming experience or having conceptual knowledge on XML will help you in learning the android development.
3. Android Development tools (ADT bundle) bundle: It is good idea to get the ADT bundle downloaded from its official site at http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html#download.

Before moving forward I would request, if you could have basic knowledge on XML and Java. You can refer our Java based tutorials at java basics at http://java.tekhnologia.com

Lets start with setting up Android Development Tool bundle. Don't worry it will be more fun than learning.