Android has to be the most widely used mobile platform at the moment.
If you were out to develop mobile applications, looks like android would be the way to go. Massive market, all the development tools are free, the documentation is online and best of all, you do not even have to own an android device. The emulator that comes with the SDK is enough to test-run your applications.
First things first, this is an article for absolute beginners...SDK stands for Software Development Kit.
To develop for android, there are a couple of things you need to have...first you need Eclipse. Eclipse is an IDE (Integrated Development Environment).
In a nutshell, it is the environment used to develop.Using Eclipse, you can develop applications in a couple of languages, one of them being Android.
Next The Android SDK should be downloaded. This enables developers create applications for the Android platform.It includes sample projects with the source code, development tools, an emulator and the libraries required to build an android application.
Final thing you need is the ADT(Android Development Tools) plug-in. This offers access to very many features that help you develop android applications.
The most comprehensive and regularly updated guide on how to download and install these tools is this guide put together by Google. They provide all the instructions and documentation for all operating systems. So I recommend heading there for instructions on how to download.
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