Decided to do some Android development on the MAC machine and below are few things did to do that.
Installing the Eclipse IDE
The IDE is available at location explicitly for mac.
IF don’t want to install the Eclipse IDE, then below are the options
1. Android Studio Install
2. stand alone SDK tools
To set up the ADT Eclipse bundle, below are the steps
- Download the Eclipse ADT bundle from the link https://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html, which will give file with the name adt-bundle-.zip and save to appropriate location such as Development directory.
- Open the act-bundle-/eclipse/ directory and launch eclipse.
Interestingly, the Eclipse ADT link did not work and it was keep coming back to the index page. This forced me to install the Android Studio, which is based on Intelli J IDE. Almost all features that Eclipse offers except the NDK support. Since i was not planning to do any NDK development thought there are few project with me that needs it, thought to go ahead with the Studio install,
This downloaded a .dmg file and then copied that into the application folder. Launching the IDE launcher requested me to install the Java 6 runtime and as the machine was new, this wasn’t present. Went ahead and asked for installing it.
Captured the first run of the IDE and the screenshot is below. Except Android L, selected all the latest versions of the SDKs such as 4.4.2, 4.3.1, 4.2.x. As has experience from past, this is a humoungs download process and take a lot amount of time.
Thats it mostly, the IDE is installed, it felt to be little slow in my 8GB RAM Mac Pro, but i was able to use the Simulator after creating a device in AVD.
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