Android Programming for Beginners

The development environment

A development environment is a term that refers to having everything you need in order to develop, set up, and be ready to go in one place. We need the following two things to get started:

• We talked a fair bit about compiling our Java code, as well as other people's Java code, into DEX code that will run on the DVM, on people's Android devices. In order to use Java code, we need a free software called the JDK. The JDK also includes other people's code, which is separate from the Android API.
• There is a whole range of tools that are required to develop for Android, and we also need the Android API, of course. This whole suite of requirements is collectively known as the Android software development kit (SDK). Fortunately, ...