Android, is one of the hottest platforms in the mobile market. Owned and marketed by Google, it is free to develop and use on mobile devices.
On this page we will have tutorials on setting up your android development environment and creating your first android application. Including how to manipulate the visual and text based editors on Eclipse. Eclipse, is the prefered development environment for Android, and is freely available for to download an install.
Before we begin, you will need to prepare your computer for installation of the Android environment, you will need:
- The Android SDK
- The Android Virtual Machine
- Eclipse
- You will need to modify the installation of the VM in Eclipse