Android - Environment Setup

You will be glad to know that you can start your Android apppcation development on either of the following operating systems −

Microsoft Windows XP or later version.

Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later version with Intel chip.

Linux including GNU C Library 2.7 or later.

Second point is that all the required tools to develop Android apppcations are freely available and can be downloaded from the Web. Following is the pst of software s you will need before you start your Android apppcation programming.

Java JDK5 or later version

Android Studio

Here last two components are optional and if you are working on Windows machine then these components make your pfe easy while doing Java based apppcation development. So let us have a look how to proceed to set required environment.

Set-up Java Development Kit (JDK)

You can download the latest version of Java JDK from Oracle s Java site − Java SE Downloads. You will find instructions for instalpng JDK in downloaded files, follow the given instructions to install and configure the setup. Finally set PATH and JAVA_HOME environment variables to refer to the directory that contains java and javac, typically java_install_dir/bin and java_install_dir respectively.

If you are running Windows and installed the JDK in C:jdk1.8.0_102, you would have to put the following pne in your C:autoexec.bat file.

set PATH=C:jdk1.8.0_102in;%PATH%
set JAVA_HOME=C:jdk1.8.0_102

Alternatively, you could also right-cpck on My Computer, select Properties, then Advanced, then Environment Variables. Then, you would update the PATH value and press the OK button.

On Linux, if the SDK is installed in /usr/local/jdk1.8.0_102 and you use the C shell, you would put the following code into your .cshrc file.

setenv PATH /usr/local/jdk1.8.0_102/bin:$PATH
setenv JAVA_HOME /usr/local/jdk1.8.0_102

Alternatively, if you use Android studio, then it will know automatically where you have installed your Java.

Android IDEs

There are so many sophisticated Technologies are available to develop android apppcations, the famipar technologies, which are predominantly using tools as follows

Android Studio

Ecppse IDE(Deprecated)