Intalling Android SDK on Eclipse - Windows and Ubuntu

Today i'll show how intall the Android SDK on Eclipse for Windows 7 and Ubuntu.

The first thing is to download the Eclipse for your operational system.

Go to http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ and choose the right link.

Windows:

Ubuntu:

Unzip the Eclipse file and put in some place you like.

After this download  the Android SDK at http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

For windows download the zip file, not the windows installer (i'll explain below)

For Ubuntu download the tar.gz.

Now came an important step

Unzip the SDK to a folder without any blank spaces. Windows intaller will put in "C:\program files\Android".

The ADT (Android Development Plugin) for eclipse have a bug. It can't start the emulator if the SDK is in a folder with spaces.

Done so, open the eclipse and go in Help>Install new software.Click in Add, and put a name as Android or anything. In Location put https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/

Check teh box in Development Tools, Next and Finish.

Now you just have to install the packages for what versions of Android you want develop.

I downloaded all.

Click in this icon  and go in Avaliable packages. Check any boxes and click in install selected.

Check accept all and install.

Go take some coffees

Afer a lot of instalation hours you are ready to program for Android :)

I next  post i'll show how to set the first android project an test it on emulator and phone.