Android Emulator

The Android SDK includes a mobile device emulator — a virtual device that runs on your computer. The emulator lets you prototype, develop, and test Android applications without using a physical device.



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JDK 6 + Eclipse + Android SDK

out-dated information!!!
Pls. refer here, "Install Android SDK on Eclipse 3.5 Galileo", for update information. ~edited 2009-07-18.


One of the development platform, which I used, is (JDK 6 + Eclipse + Android SDK) run under WindowsXP.

JDK 6 is the Java Development Kit from Sun.
Android SDK is the core to develope Android application.
Eclipse IDE for Java Developers is a free Open Source IDE for Java development. Android Development Tools plugin is needed, in order to work with Android SDK.

Androidology@YouTube

Part 1 of 3 - Architecture Overview

Part 2 of 3 - Application Lifecycle

Part 3 of 3 - APIs

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