This is placeholder for documentation about Fedora used as Android development box
Abstract
This page should provide "how-to" document about using Fedora Linux for developing applications for Android platform.
This document will cover requirements, steps how to go from source code till final application and how to use Android Emulator for testing of application.
Target Fedora version
F-12 and higher
Requirements
- Eclipse IDE (3.5 and higher is needed because of ADT plugin dependency on Equinox P2)
yum install eclipse-jdt
- Android SDK
Download SDK from page
http://developer.android.com
- ADT plugin for Eclipse
- Start Eclipse, then select Help > Install new software...
- Click on the Available Software site hyperlink.
- In Available software sites dialog, click Add....
- In the Add Site dialog that appears, enter a name for the remote site (for example "Eclipse Update") in the "Name" field. In the Location field, enter this URL:
http://download.eclipse.org/releases/galileo/
This will add dependency which are required for ADT plugin.
- Again click on Add button and enter a name for the another remote site (for example, "Android Plugin") in the "Name" field. In the "Location" field, enter this URL:
https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/
Note: If you have trouble acquiring the plugin, you can try using "http" in the URL, instead of "https" (https is preferred for security reasons).Click OK.
- Back in the Available Software view, you should now in see in drop down list "Android Plugin", select it and in box below see "Developer Tools" added to the list. Select the checkbox next to Developer Tools, which will automatically select the nested tools Android DDMS and Android Development Tools. Click Next.
- In the resulting Install Details dialog, the Android DDMS and Android Development Tools features are listed. Click Next to read and accept the license agreement and install any dependencies, then click Finish.
- Restart Eclipse.
Install Android SDK
download android-sdk_r05-linux_86.tgz from http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
unpack it in your home directory into ~/AndroidSDK
add into path environment variable ~/AndroidSDK in .bash_profile file in your home directory.
For example: PATH=$PATH:$HOME/AndroidSDK export PATH
logout and login back to apply path change
Hello Fedora
Android Emulator
--Hpejakle 20:40, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
