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Automating ActionScript Projects with Eclipse and Ant
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Automating ActionScript Projects with Eclipse and Ant

by Sidney de Koning
October 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
98 pages
2h 18m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Downloading the Android SDK

Go to http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html and download the latest version. At the time of this writing, the latest version is R12, or release 12. Installing an SDK is easy: just download and extract the files. I place mine in the root of my hard drive in a folder called SDK and differentiate the files by version number. When you extract the Android SDK it should give you a folder with a name similar to SDK/android-sdk-r12-mac_x86.

Installing the ADT Plug-in for Eclipse

For Eclipse to work with Android, we have to install a new plug-in. Go to Help→Install New Software, and then click the big Add button on the right side of this screen. Here, you need to type in the URL of the ADT install site as follows: https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/. For the name, you can enter ADT Android and click OK. This will search for the install site; when it is found, select all the options under Developer Tools, click Next, and then click Next again on the review screen. Accept the terms and click Finish. This should install everything you need. You might see a pop up saying you are about to install unsigned content; this is the same pop up I mentioned during the FDT installation. You can click OK here. If everything is installed successfully, you will be presented with one final dialog. Just click the Restart Now button.

The last step of the Android ADT installation is to point to the Android SDK we downloaded earlier. Open up Eclipse’s preferences and click ...

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