Hello, in this post I will explain how to setup an Android environment for developing-fun-curiosity-whateveryouwant at Mac OS X, with is quite VERY simple. This guide should work on the same in Windows and Linux but I am not sure.

By first you need to download the Android SDK for your platform: Mac OS X - Linux – Windows. (September 10, for newest click here)

After that you need to open the ‘tools’ executable (from the console) — this is only for OS X or Linux (not sure how at Windows). Then you get a window titled ‘Android SDK and AVD Manager‘.

Go to ‘Available packages’ to select the Android environment you will be using at Android Repository  (Froyo 2.2, Gingerbread 2.3.3, Honeycomb 3.2, w/e). At this very same tab you can also install (at Third party Add-Ons) the Google APIs alike Maps and Admob.

Now that you downloaded the environment that you desire, go to ‘Virtual Devices‘ tab, click on “New” button and proceed to assign a name to the device, which OS you will use, CPU/ABI, etc… then “Create AVD“. Now you are done! Just click Start while you have the desired device selected with blue .

Enjoy! — Today is the SuperHappyDevHouse at Xalapa, Mexico. We will be here about 12 hours of programming/learning/geek stuff – I am doing guides for this site, this is the first one. More to come!.

David Barreda

Engineering student, I like to enjoy my free time playing videogames and playing guitar, I love server administration. I enjoy testing different OS, but my best is on Linux and later OS X, and I'm not an stupid *BSD and Windows user, just im rusty. I also like reading books, listening music, traveling, and as you can see at this site, help people with problems that I can solve, enjoy. I'm also looking for an online job on UNIX system administration, so if you know about one, just comment here! ;)

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