Android - Environment Setup: Set-Up Java Development Kit
Android - Environment Setup: Set-Up Java Development Kit
You will be glad to know that you can start your Android application development on either of the following
operating systems −
Second point is that all the required tools to develop Android applications are freely available and can be
downloaded from the Web. Following is the list of software's you will need before you start your Android
application programming.
Android Studio
Here last two components are optional and if you are working on Windows machine then these components
make your life easy while doing Java based application development. So let us have a look how to proceed to
set required environment.
If you are running Windows and installed the JDK in C:\jdk1.8.0_102, you would have to put the following
line in your C:\autoexec.bat file.
set PATH=C:\jdk1.8.0_102\bin;%PATH%
set JAVA_HOME=C:\jdk1.8.0_102
Alternatively, you could also right-click on My Computer, select Properties, then Advanced, then
Environment Variables. Then, you would update the PATH value and press the OK button.
On Linux, if the SDK is installed in /usr/local/jdk1.8.0_102 and you use the C shell, you would put the
following code into your .cshrc file.
setenv PATH /usr/local/jdk1.8.0_102/bin:$PATH
setenv JAVA_HOME /usr/local/jdk1.8.0_102
Alternatively, if you use Android studio, then it will know automatically where you have installed your Java.
Android IDEs
There are so many sophisticated Technologies are available to develop android applications, the familiar
technologies, which are predominantly using tools as follows
Android Studio
Eclipse IDEDeprecated