Now that the Android SDK and Eclipse were both configured, it was time to write a program! The Google guide has a very nice-looking series of tutorials, starting with a Hello World app. Thankfully, Google offers a manual download of the tools here, so I was finally able to get the ADT plugin up and running. After a lot of searching, I didn’t find a fix, but I learned the problem possibly has to do with the fact that I am using a newer version of Eclipse (Indigo) than when the guide was written (Helios). Eclipse did that, then proceeded to tell me that the tools couldn’t be installed. According to the Google guide, Eclipse should be able to grab the tools from a repository located here: “. This is where things started getting a little hairy.
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Inside Eclipse, the next step is to install the ADT plugin, which will integrate several Android tools into Eclipse.
Then you run eclipse.exe from that folder and off you go. In my case, Eclipse ended up in “C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.7.0_04\eclipse”.
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You just need to extract the zip file into your JDK directory, and that’s it. There is no installer exe for Eclipse, only a zip file, which might confuse Windows users. I opted for Eclipse for Java Developers 32-bit (matching my 32-bit JDK), though I hear Eclipse Classic works too. For now, I only downloaded the latest version, 4.0.3/API15. Once that has been installed, running the SDK Manager lets you choose what Android platforms to download. Even though I have a 64-bit system, I chose 32-bit in order to maximize compatibility. Oracle’s website has lots of options, so it was important to choose the standard 32-bit JDK installer. Step one was to install the JDK, Java Development Kit. Here’s my rundown of setting everything up:
I have a fairly modern computer running Windows 7 64-bit. There was a bit of trial and error along the way. Google has a guide here, but it wasn’t the smoothest process. The first thing I had to do was to properly set up my development environment. Neither of us have ever done anything like this, so needless to say it will be an adventure.
This summer I will be developing an Android app with James, who is also a senior CS major at Worcester State.
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