Saturday, July 21, 2012

Develop Android Apps with Eclipse on Centos 6

This is an update to my previous post.
[Update for Centos 6.3]

Installing Eclipse Indigo for Android on Centos 6.


Pre-installation check list:

  1. Java JDK 1.6 or higher is installed
  2. PATH and CLASSPATH has been configured 
The Centos was installed as 64bits, but Android tools require 32bit libraries. Add them via following;
yum install glibc.i686 ncurses-libs.i686 libstdc libstdc++.i686 \
   libzip.i686 libX11 i686 libXrandr.i686 SDL.i686 gegl.i686

Steps 1. Eclipse Indigo

yum install eclipse-emf eclipse-jdt
Download and install the Indigo version of Eclipse.
Default yum install from Centos 6.3 provided only the older version of Eclipse (Helios) which have too many dependency problems after install.

2. Android SDK
a) download and run installer from http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
Current version is named android-sdk_r20.0.3-linux.tgz size of which is about 78Mb.

tar -xvzf android-sdk_r20.0.3-linux.tgz
mv android-sdk /opt/android-sdk
chmod -R a+w /opt/android-sdk

Open the user's $HOME/.bash_profile and add before the last l
PATH=$PATH:/opt/android-sdk/tools:/opt/android-sdk/platform-tools


Follow instructions from http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/index.html

b) Run the Android SDK Manager
Currently target for API 10 (Android 2.3.3) and API 16 (Android 4.0.1).


3. Eclipse's ADT plugin
a) Start Eclipse and select Help-> Install New Software, click Add (top right)

b) At right of "Work with:", Click Add... and enter the ADT Plugin repository details
https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/

c) In Available Software, check Developer Tools and install.
Accept all license agreement.

d) Restart Eclipse

e) Eclipse may assign the Android SDK directory
or
Choose preferences and point to the Android SDK folder (see Section 2). 
e.g. /opt/android-sdk

4. Create your first App, see http://developer.android.com/training/basics/firstapp/index.html

1 comment:

Unknown said...

If user want to use some software with full authority then they need to commit a software license agreement from software creation company.


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