It’s fairly easy to setup and install the Android SDK on Linux. For starters, the fact that you don’t need a Mac, and that it’s freely available really helps. The Android developers website is very resourceful and has a lot of information and step-by-step guides to have the SDK setup and ready in no time. Chances are, you won’t have to look at any other websites for this purpose.<\/p>\n
Things You’ll Need<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Make sure your system meets the system requirements (it’s a few hundred MBs of hard drive storage).<\/p>\n http:\/\/developer.android.com\/sdk\/requirements.html<\/a><\/p>\n 2. The SDK Starter Package<\/p>\n http:\/\/developer.android.com\/sdk\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n 3. ADT Plug-in for Eclipse (if developing in Eclipse). Requires Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo) or greater.<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.eclipse.org\/downloads\/<\/a><\/p>\n If not developing in Eclipse, you can use other IDEs like Apache Ant 8.1 or greater (http:\/\/ant.apache.org\/<\/a>) or JDK 5 or JDK 6 (http:\/\/www.oracle.com\/technetwork\/java\/javase\/downloads\/index.html<\/a>)<\/p>\n Installing the SDK<\/strong><\/p>\n Firstly, the downloaded file must be unzipped.<\/p>\n Zip file<\/strong> Type ‘unzip filename.zip’ in the terminal<\/p>\n .tgz file<\/strong> Type ‘tar zxf filename.tgz’ in the terminal<\/p>\n Once all the files are extracted, eclipse is ready to be used. Typing in ‘eclipse’ in the terminal should start the IDE.<\/p>\n