Android 2.1 Development Notes

Posted: February 11th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: android | No Comments »

The following is the notes I made while getting android 2.1 working on XP with Eclipse.  It wasn’t as easy as to get up and going as it should be, but the following instructions fix the only hard part — the installer doesn’t create necessary directories.

Dev Environment: Using Eclipse on Windows

Steps:

0. Download and Install SDK
1. Install ADT (Android Development Toolkit)

Didn’t work, I had no targets.

When running android.bat

I got the following:

Starting Android SDK and AVD Manager
Error: Error parsing the sdk

3. I manually created the directories: platform & add-ons in the android directory.  So the android directory now looks like

android-sdk-windows\tools
android-sdk-windows\platforms
android-sdk-windows\add-ons

This allowed android to run launching the Android SDK and AVD Manager, which then gives the error:

Failed to fetch URL https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/repository.xml, reason: dl-ssl.google.com

4. I had to go to the settings section and click Force https:// to be fetched using http://

5. I was then able to see the available packages and selected SKD Platform 2.1 API 7 rev1, Google APIs by Google Inc App7 rev1, and USB driver package rev3

6. I was then able to create a new virtual device (AVD).

7. In Eclipse, I created a new Android Project, and then proceeded to try the Hello World Tutorial

Everything worked fine and I was able to create my application

Overall, I like the design of Android — I still have to do some work with it but, I like the overall concept.

---