so now that you've downloaded the android SDK, the next step is to download Eclipse.
which is the development tool that you're gonna use for your android development. so you wanna go to www.eclipse.org
and from the home page here, you wanna click on this big download Eclipse button, and from this download page
we can know choose from a host of different types of Eclipse installations, now to keep it simple we're just gonna download the Eclipse IDE for java developers
which is kind of the basic setup for doing java development, now the latest version of Eclipse as i'm recording this is Helios which is 3.6.2.
but you can grab what ever the latest version is. now you can see i can download either a 32 bit or 64 bit version for OS 10.
and you ganna wanna obviously download the one that is appropriated for you system, now since i'm using SnowLeopard I wanna get this 64 Bit version.
so now i'm gonna click this now it's gonna take me to the download page.
OK now from the download page, it's asking me to select a mirror to use, so it has selected this one here, so i'm just gonna click this and now it's gonna start downloading this via http.
we can see it's starting to download now it's about 98 MB. but once it downloads then we're now gonna be able to access Eclipse and start our Android development.
OK so the download is complete now the download is actually a tar file so if i go ahead and double click on that it's gonna unarchive it.
now since Eclipse is a java application, everything we need is actually just contained inside of this Eclipse folder so what i like to do is just to drag that and put it in my applications folder
so now if i go to my applications folder, i have my Eclipse folder and then here is the actual application
and it's gonna ask me are you sure you wanna open? yes i do. so it's now gonna open up Eclipse and
this is the splash screen, now it's asking me to select the work space, now work space is where all of your android projects by default are gonna be stored.
so i'm just gonna leave it at the default selection here and i'm gonna check this off to say to use this as the default and don't ask me again.
so i'm gonna click OK, and now it's going to show me the start screen.
now the start screen is kind of an interesting UI here. you don't really need to go to any of these the only one you need to go to is this work bench.
which is where you gonna do your actual android development. and here we are now inside of Eclipse.
you won't see that welcome screen again. so now that you have Eclipse installed the next step is
to install the android developer tools, and we're gonna do that later on in this chapter.
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