Chapter 3. Setting Up Your Android Development Environment
It's time to get your hands dirty. In this chapter, starting from scratch, you'll equip a computer system to develop Android applications. You'll first install Oracle's (formerly Sun's) Java SE JDK and the Java Runtime Environment, then the Eclipse IDE, and finally the Android SDK, the tool set that provides Eclipse with the tools you'll need to create Android apps. Sound convoluted? It is. After all, this is high-end software development, remember. What these are and how they relate to each other will become clear as you proceed through this chapter.
Once the installation is complete, you'll finish up by fine-tuning your Android environment within Eclipse to include smartphone emulators, ...
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