Android SDK

ADT (Android Developer Tools) to streamline your Android app development.

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The Android SDK provides the API libraries and developer tools necessary to build, test, and debug apps for Android. The SDK tools are installed with the SDK starter package and are periodically updated. The SDK tools are required if you are developing Android applications. The most important SDK tools include the Android SDK Manager (android sdk), the AVD Manager (android avd) the emulator (emulator), and the Dalvik Debug Monitor Server (ddms). A short summary of some frequently-used SDK tools is provided below.

Last Release Year ['Active'=Current]:

Active

Since (maturity):

2009

Android SDK
	Tool Scope	Test Automation Framework, Testing Tool, Emulator, Simulator
	Application Rights	Free Use, Opensource
	Since	2009
	Company	Android
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Features

Includes powerful tools for setting up and running test applications.
Integrate with Eclipse
Operate via command line.
The SDK tools help to set up and run tests within an emulator or the device
Tutorials: Hello, Testing and Activity Testing,
Testing from Eclipse, with ADT - The ADT plugin lets you quickly set up and manage test projects directly in the Eclipse UI. Once you have written your tests, you can build and run them and then see the results in the Eclipse JUnit view. You can also use the SDK command-line tools to execute your tests if needed.
Testing from Other IDEs - The SDK command-line tools provide the same capabilities as the ADT plugin. You can use them to set up and manage test projects, build your test application, run your tests, and see the results. You use the android tool to create and manage test projects, the Ant build system to compile them, and the adb tool to install and run them.
android - Lets you manage AVDs, projects, and the installed components of the SDK.
Dalvik Debug Monitor Server (ddms) - Lets you debug Android applications.
dmtracedump - Generates graphical call-stack diagrams from trace log files. The tool uses the Graphviz Dot utility to create the graphical output, so you need to install Graphviz before running dmtracedump.
Draw 9-patch - Allows you to easily create a NinePatch graphic using a WYSIWYG editor. It also previews stretched versions of the image, and highlights the area in which content is allowed.
Android Emulator (emulator) - A QEMU-based device-emulation tool that you can use to design, debug, and test your applications in an actual Android run-time environment.
Hierarchy Viewer (hierarchyviewer) - Lets you debug and optimize an Android application's user interface.
hprof-conv - Converts the HPROF file that is generated by the Android SDK tools to a standard format so you can view the file in a profiling tool of your choice.
layoutopt - Lets you quickly analyze your application's layouts in order to optimize them for efficiency.
mksdcard - Helps you create a disk image that you can use with the emulator, to simulate the presence of an external storage card (such as an SD card).
Monkey - Runs on your emulator or device and generates pseudo-random streams of user events such as clicks, touches, or gestures, as well as a number of system-level events. You can use the Monkey to stress-test applications that you are developing, in a random yet repeatable manner.
monkeyrunner - Provides an API for writing programs that control an Android device or emulator from outside of Android code.
ProGuard - Shrinks, optimizes, and obfuscates your code by removing unused code and renaming classes, fields, and methods with semanticaly obscure names.
sqlite3 - Lets you access the SQLite data files created and used by Android applications.
traceview - Provides a graphical viewer for execution logs saved by your application.
zipalign - Optimizes .apk files by ensuring that all uncompressed data starts with a particular alignment relative to the start of the file. This should always be used to align .apk files after they have been signed.

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System Requirements

Windows

Microsoft® Windows® 8/7/Vista (32- or 64-bit)
2 GB RAM minimum, 4 GB RAM recommended
400 MB hard disk space
At least 1 GB for Android SDK, emulator system images, and caches
1280 x 800 minimum screen resolution
Java Development Kit (JDK) 7
Optional for accelerated emulator: Intel® processor with support for Intel® VT-x, Intel® EM64T (Intel® 64), and Execute Disable (XD) Bit functionality

Mac OS X

Mac® OS X® 10.8.5 or higher, up to 10.9 (Mavericks)
2 GB RAM minimum, 4 GB RAM recommended
400 MB hard disk space
At least 1 GB for Android SDK, emulator system images, and caches
1280 x 800 minimum screen resolution
Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6
Java Development Kit (JDK) 7
On Mac OS, run Android Studio with Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 for optimized font rendering. You can then configure your project to use Java Development Kit (JDK) 6 or JDK 7.

Linux

GNOME or KDE desktop
GNU C Library (glibc) 2.15 or later
2 GB RAM minimum, 4 GB RAM recommended
400 MB hard disk space
At least 1 GB for Android SDK, emulator system images, and caches
1280 x 800 minimum screen resolution
Oracle® Java Development Kit (JDK) 7
64-bit distribution capable of running 32-bit applications

Tested on Ubuntu® 14.04, Trusty Tahr (64-bit distribution capable of running 32-bit applications).

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SDK Tools Only

If you prefer to use a different IDE or run the tools from the command line or with build scripts, you can instead download the stand-alone Android SDK Tools. These packages provide the basic SDK tools for app development, without an IDE. Also see the SDK tools release notes.

Component type	Approximate size	Comments
SDK Tools	35 MB	Required.
SDK Platform-tools	6 MB	Required.
Android platform (each)	150 MB	At least one platform is required.
SDK Add-on (each)	100 MB	Optional.
USB Driver for Windows	10 MB	Optional. For Windows only.
Samples (per platform)	10M	Optional.
Offline documentation	250 MB	Optional.

Note that the disk-space requirements above are in addition to those of the Eclipse IDE, JDK, or other prerequisite tools that you may need to install on your development computer.

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Linux

Linux Ubuntu

Linux Lucid Lynx

Android

Windows

Windows Vista

Windows 7

MAC OS

MAC OS X

Mac OS X 10.5.8

Hardware Requirements:

Hard Disk

Hard Disk: 500MB

Scripting Language:

Java

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Supported Technologies:

Android apps

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JDK

JDK 5

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