so the first thing you need to download in order to start developing for android, are the android SDK tools.
so we go to developer.android.com/SDK
that will let you download the android SDK manager
and you wanna choose the one obviously for your operating system. now since i'm on mac here
i'm gonna choose this zip file, and i'm gonna download it, it's about 27.5 MB
and this includes a set of tools that you're gonna use throughout your time developing for android
and most importantly it includes the sdk manager, which is a tool that allows you to
download and install different components that make up the android system
so if i double click to go to in this folder, we can see we have a tools folder here
and inside of here we have an application called aneroid, which is the actual SDK manager
so we're gonna navigate there, using a terminal window, so i'll go to spotlight and open up terminal
and this puts me into my user directory, so i'm gonna go into downloads
android-sdk-mac_x86 and then into the tools folder.
now in order to lunch this on mac, i'm gonna do : ./android
and now, this is gonna lunch up the android SDK manager
now this is also where we're gonna be able to create emulators
and setup various settings about our android development environment.
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