Android sdk setup

The earlier sdk bundle that was thre for 1.5 & 1.6 has been replaced with a simpler and easier "SDK Manager". The download is available at http://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r07-windows.zip. Extract the zip file to a folder, say - C:\Android\sdk. Now, go to the folder C:\Android\sdk and run the SDK Manager.exe. This will bring up the "Android SDK and AVD Manager". This will bring up the below window

Select the "Available Packages" option (third in the left hand side menu), and a list of available packages are shown. Select the ones that is required - Android sdk tools 7, SDK platform Android 2.2 are enough, but I would recommend Documentation for Android sdk API 8 and Samples for SDK API 8. After making the selections, click on the "Install selected" button in the bottom right corner.

This will download and install the selected components into C:\Android\sdk. 

To add the android sdk path to the windows PATH list, open the Windows Environment Variables window (Right click on My Computer, then System Properties -> Advanced -> Environment Variables. 

Click on the New button if the variable PATH does not exist. If it exists, click Edit. In the window that pops up, define variable PATH and value as the path to the tools folder of the android sdk - C:\Android\sdk\tools.

The last thing thats required is JDK. Download the latest jdk from  and install it. This completes the android sdk setup.


So, the steps for android sdk setup is:

1. Download sdk manager from http://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r07-windows.zip
2. Extract the zip file to a folder - C:\Android\sdk\
3. Run sdk manager and download the sdk components. The adviced components are
• Android sdk tools 7
• SDK platform Android 2.2
• Documentation for Android sdk, API 8
• Samples for SDK API 8
4. Add path to android sdk tools (C:\Android\sdk\tools) in windows PATH environment variable.
5. Download and install the latest jdk. JDK is available for download from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html.