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Installing the Android SDK

Now that we have the JDK installed, we will also need to install the Android Software Development kit; let's do that now:

In order to install the Android SDK Tools, we'll need to go to the Android Studio page at: https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html:

Android Studio is used to build apps for Android devices when you're building it from scratch, and it also includes the Android SDK with a nice GUI for being able to select what parts we'd like to feature, so we will be installing it.

However, we will not actually install Android Studio as it's not needed for Unity development:

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