Setup the Android Development Environment on Windows

This post explain how to quickly setup the development environment for the android application development on windows

Welcome Creative App Developers you can start your creative world of apps here

You should have following operating system versions
Windows XP (32-bit), Vista (32- or 64-bit), or Windows 7 (32- or 64-bit),Windows 2003 (32 bit)

The system must have JDK 6 installed.

• For development environment you can use the Eclipse 3.6.2+ version. The Eclipse could be download 

http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/

• Now you can download and install the Android SDK manager. you can download from http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
• Once you setup the Android SDK Manager you can choose the installation packages from the manager window and SDK manager will automatically download and install the various packages.
• Now you need an Eclipse Plugin for Android Development.

        Open Eclipse, then go to Help > Install New Software. and click Add, in the top-right corner.

        Now In Add Repository Dialog enter the "ADT Plugin" for the Name and put the following URL 

        for the Location  http://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/.

        Now the available software dialog will appear where you can check for Developer Tools and click

        Next to download the tools.

        Once the installation complete restart the Eclipse.

       Now you need a small configuration for ADT Plugin. In Eclipse go to Window->Preferences and open

       the preferences panel. select Android from left panel and choose the option to send usage data to 

       Google. (If you wish to send)

      

      Now in the main panel point your installed SDK to the SDK Location.

Done!. Now you are ready to develop your creative apps for Android.