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Sunday, Mar 20th 2011 8:42pm

Getting started with Android app development on windows with HTML 5 and JQuery

1. Research on android development

To start we go to Android's developer website and do a lil' research.  I find the Android documentation to be splended and comprehensive.  

2.  Install JDK

If you don't already have Java SE Development Kit (JDK) installed, you will need to do that before you go any further.

Download JDK

Here is a good visual tutorial on downloading and installing JDK on windows

3. Download SDK

I'm on the windows platform, so this tutorial is based on setting up your Android dev workspace on a windows machine. Getting started, you need to download the starter package, i chose installer_r10-windows.exe (Recommended).  

You can visit the Download page to chose an install based on which platform your workspace is on. http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

4. Run Installer

Simple enough, browse to where you downloaded the starter package on your computer and run it.  You will see the dialog box below, and click next. The program will then check to see if Java SE Development Kit (JDK) is installed. If you installed JDK properly in the 2nd step of this tutorial, you'll get past this easy...but I've had some headaches trying to get it right on windows 7 64-bit in the past.

Go through the installer. I just chose all the default settings, install location, etc. If all goes well, the installer will then prompt you to start the SDK manager.  Click the checkbox and then click finished.  The SDK manager will then boot up.

5.  Install Packages

The package installer will ask what packages to install with the SDK.  Again, I leave it as default and click the button Install below.  The installer will then download the packages