Next steps: Android development Platform

After taking a few preliminary steps using App Inventor (which is a lot of fun), I next wanted to try the Android Development Platform.

I found an Android for Dummies that had a step by step recipe type instructions. But Eclipse and the Android STK had changed so it was difficult to understand the instructions.

I next tried Hello Android by Ed Burnett, and although the format does not give you complete step by step setup instructions it gives one a clear orientation and the information that is required to connect the Java STK, with Android and Eclipse componets.

There are also good instructions at the Android Developers Website.

The components you need are:

•  First make sure you have JAVA installed on your computer.  To get a current copy, go to the ORACLE website.
• You will also need an editor of some kind the oldest and most used by people in the field is ECLIPSE, and you should dowload this as well.
• And the third piece is the Android STK.

To make sure it all talks to each other I ran the most basic of programs:  HelloWorld on the Android emulator (very much like the emulator in App Inventor).

Yeii! it Worked!  Now the real fun can begin.