Difference between revisions of "Development environment for Android"

Latest revision as of 16:58, 9 June 2015

Android Studio is now the official IDE to build Android applications

# cd ~/bin/
# unzip android-studio-ide-*-linux.zip

 # export PATH=$PATH:~/bin/android-studio/bin
 # sed -i -e '/^PATH/s/$/:$HOME\/bin\/android-studio\/bin/' .bash_profile

# studio.sh

Linux Setup
If installing on a 64-bit system, then install the following packages before to start because Android SDK is 32-bit

yum install glibc.i686 glibc-devel.i686 libstdc++.i686 zlib-devel.i686 ncurses-devel.i686 libX11-devel.i686 libXrender.i686 libXrandr.i686

export PATH=${PATH}:<sdk_location>/tools:<sdk_location>/platform-tools

Windows Setup

This setup Eclipse and Android Eclipse Plugin on Linux

yum install eclipse eclipse-jdt eclipse-gef

Enable the proper eclipse repository, based on the release codename http://download.eclipse.org/releases/ECLIPSE_RELEASE/
Update eclipse, Help > Check Updates
Add the ADT on Help > Install New Software
On the new dialog click on 'Add' button and fill in the following fields:
- Location: https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/
- Name: Android Plugin

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+=== How to setup Android Studio on Linux ===
+Android Studio is now the official IDE to build Android applications
+* Get the Studio IDE from https://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
+* Unzip the downloaded file
+ # cd ~/bin/
+ # unzip android-studio-ide-*-linux.zip
+* Add <tt>android-studio/bin/</tt> to your path
+  # export PATH=$PATH:~/bin/android-studio/bin
+  # sed -i -e '/^PATH/s/$/:$HOME\/bin\/android-studio\/bin/' .bash_profile
+* To start Android Studio execute:
+ # studio.sh
 === How to setup Android SDK ===
-This is to build applications for Android
 '''Linux Setup'''<br>
 If installing on a 64-bit system, then install the following packages before to start because Android SDK is 32-bit
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 * Install add-ons and documentation
 * Download and install plugin for the preferred IDE
-=== How to setup Android Studio on Linux ===
-Android Studio is now the official IDE
-* Get the Studio IDE from https://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
-* Unzip the downloaded file
- # cd ~/bin/
- # unzip android-studio-ide-*-linux.zip
-* Add <tt>android-studio/bin/</tt> to your path
-  # export PATH=$PATH:~/bin/android-studio/bin
-  # sed -i -e '/^PATH/s/$/:$HOME\/bin\/android-studio\/bin/' .bash_profile
-* To start Android Studio execute:
- # studio.sh
 === How to setup Eclipse to build Android Apps on Linux (Legacy) ===