Installation of Android Development Tools (ADT)

What is ADT ? 

- It is Android Development Tool which extends Eclipse IDE (using version: 3.6.0) for development of android based applications.

- It accelerates the Android application development

It helps ,

- to creates application UI

- in debugging of Android application based on Android SDK

- to export (signed or unsigned) .apk files for application distribution

Installation of ADT and Android SDK

Steps:

1)Open Eclipse Menu [Help][Install New Software...]

2)Press [Add..] button

3)Provide ADT URL as shown below

Name: ADT Eclipse

Location: http://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/

4)Select necessary Developer Tools from the list and press [Next >] button

5)Select necessary Developer Tools from the list and press [Next >] button to start installation

6)After Plugin installation, restart Eclipse 

7)After restart Eclipse, it will display Android SDK installation dialog box 

8)After pressing [Finish] button Eclipse will start SDK installation

9) How to install Android SDK Separately,
- Download Android SDK: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html#download
- Extract the tar to the appropriate folder, example,
- Specify Android ADK location for Eclipse, (Using Eclipse/Preference)

10)How to update existing Android SDK using command line

/android-sdk-macosx/tools/android update sdk --no-ui

Above command will update existing Android SDK to latest available Android SD

11)ADT Plugin additional Information
http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/eclipse-adt.html