Introduction
You need these applications to install the Android SDK Tools:
Let's Start the Installation process
First of all, you need to install the JDK 1.6 (Standard Edition) because Android SDK lies on it.
Second, you need to start the Android SDK installer. The first screen you may see looks like this:
It's a welcome screen; click
Next.
You'll see the above window if you didn't install the JDK. It may be seen, even you have installed JDK, in some cases, if so, then there is no need to worry about this rubbish,
just go Back and press Next again.
The mess is then gone; press
Next. Now,
you'll see the following window as shown in the following image:
Select the destination folder for installation and press
Next.
Click
Install; the installation process is started.
After a few seconds, the following window is shown:
Press
Next.
If you are seeing the above window, that means that you have successfully installed the Android SDK Tools.
Click
Finish to
start SDK Manager to download system images and other stuffs.
When sources are refreshed, you'll see this window
Choose packages, click
Install. Now, packages will be downloaded and installed.
You can also see available packages to be download by clicking on
Available packages in the left panel, as shown in following image
And Installed packages could be seen by clicking on
Installed packages. Update and delete options are available for installed packages.
Now, it's the time to create an AVD; select
Virtual devices and click on the
New button.
You'll see a new window, as follows
Fill the information- AVD Name, Target Version, SD Card Size, etc. according to your need and press
Create AVD. A few seconds later, you'll see the following message:
If everything is going correctly, you can see that a new AVD is available in the list.
Now, select AVD and press
Start. The following Launch Options are shown.
Press
Launch. If there is no error, the following window will appear and hide automatically; that means that the AVD is started. Otherwise, you'll receive any error message.
Now, the emulator is ready to run. Locate the "emulator-arm.exe" in the Android installation folder, as follows:
Open a command prompt and go to the directory, where "emulator-arm.exe" resides. Use the following command to run the emulator:
emulator-arm @<avd-name>
For example
emulator-arm @myavd
After some time the emulator is started up.
And you'll see the Home Screen.