Chapter 1
Building an Android IDE for Version 4.2: Acquiring, Installing, and Configuring an Android Development Environment
The first thing that we need to do before we can learn Android Application Development is to put together a working Android Application Development Environment on our development workstation. Hopefully you have an entry-level quad-core AMD or Intel computer with 4GB or more of DDR memory and Windows 7 or Windows 8; the computer that I will be using for this book is a $398 ACER 64-bit quad-core AMD, running at 3.1GHz with 4GB of DDR3 memory and 1TB hard disk drive and Windows 7 that I picked up at Walmart.
Fortunately for us Android App developers, very powerful 64-bit computers are readily available for a few hundred ...
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