gdgandroidsetup.md

#Installation Guide for Android SDK / ADT Bundle on Ubuntu

To setup the Android SDK on your ubuntu linux platform,

1. First, you will have to check your system architecture. To do that,

   • Click on the settings icon at the top right corner of your taskbar
   • Click on system settings
   • On the system settings windo, click on details
   • You will see the system architecture (wether 32 or 64 bit) written beside OS type

2. Then you will need to setup java platform on your system since eclipse requires it. To do that,

   • Open your terminal (Ctrl + Alt + Del)
   • then type sudo apt-get update to update your repositories
   • type sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk to install the open jdk on your system

3. To download the Android ADT Bundle,

   • Click this link to go to the download page
   • Click on Download Eclipse ADT with the Android SDK for Linux button
   • Agree to the license
   • Select your system architecture (you can find your os type at step 1)
   • Finally click on download

4. Setting up ADT

   • Extract your zipped ADT anywhere on your system, (eg; ~/Desktop)

   • Acessing android anywhere on your terminal

     • Edit your .bashrc file by typing sudo gedit ~\.bashrc on your terminal

     • Scroll to the bottom of the page and type the following,

       export ANDROID_HOME = /PATH_TO_ANDROID/sdk

       export PATH = $PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools

     NB: Replace PATH_TO_ANDROID with where you extracted your adtbundle.

   • You can now access your android sdk and adb command tools by typing android and adb respectively.

5. Accessing eclipse

   • Open your extracted folder and then open the eclipse folder
   • Double click on eclipse to run it
   • If it doesn't open the eclipse IDE, you will have to set it as executable and you can do that by,
     • Opening the eclipse folder in your terminal
     • type sudo chmod +x eclipse
     • then you can double click to open your file

#Setting up Google App Engine on Ubuntu Linux

1. Python

   • Python 2.7 is already installed on most linux distributions.
   • Open the terminal and type python to verify

2. Google App Engine SDK

   • Navigate to App Engine SDK and download the zipped file
   • Extract the file to any location, eg, ~/Desktop
   • Now edit your bashrc file ,

   sudo gedit ~/.bashrc

   and set the path by typing

   export PATH=$PATH:PATH_TO_FOLDER

   where PATH_TO_FOLDER will be where you extracted the appengine file, eg: /opt/google_app_engine

3. Creating a Hello World with Appengine

   • Create a new folder called apps and create a subfolder called appenginetry

   • Create a file and name it app.yaml and put in this content
     application: enginetry
version: 1
runtime: python
api_version: 1
handlers:
- url: /.*
script: index.py

   • Create an index.py file and put in

       ` print "hello world" `
     

   • Now navigate to your apps folder and type dev_appserver.py appenginetry

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