Android Series : Part 1 - The Basics

In order to develop applications in Android it is a must for you to have basic JAVA programming concepts. Those who are familiar with Struts framework in Java you won't face any problem at all. Android applications are also developed in other languages also but  it is a lot more comfortable in JAVA so I am going to code in JAVA. If you have  knowledge of any programming language you can easily migrate to JAVA. In case you have any problem in migrating just let me know, I might be able to help you. Unlike other blogs I have decided to make a separate post for everyone's problems(technical). Now for today just follow the following instructions : - 

1. Open the following link 

      http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

2. Click "Download the sdk" on the left hand side.

  

 3. After clicking you would get a license agreement page and believe me its fun to read it so if you want you can read it for sure. Now the very important part that I forgot to tell you is that we will be developing our apps on Windows 7. Those who still have Windows XP please install Windows 7 too and those running Windows 8 please downgrade yourself to Windows 7 your pride won't suffer believe me. Those having problems installing Windows 8, better google it or ofcourse I am ask me. Accept the license agreement.  You will be getting two radio buttons 32-bit and 64-bit. Download as per your OS versions.

4. The download is resume supported so using a download manager would be best.

You might be curious to know the inside of the bundle so let me tell you. It would have Android SDK(Software Developer Kit) and  Eclipse IDE. Like Netbeans or any other IDE we use Eclipse for android development. Why we wil not use Netbeans is because I learnt it on Eclipse , most of the people of the world learnt it on Eclipse and so will you. However you can experiment later with netbeans.

Wait for the next post now the tutorial is getting too heavy